When major environmental disasters occur, thousands of people are often affected, but it’s…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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If major environmental disasters happened in your neighborhood…
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Design advanced online and interactive maps with Polymaps
In a collaboration between SimpleGeo, who makes location data easier to access, and…
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Bus movements in San Francisco animated
Eric Fischer has been having a good bit of fun with maps lately.…
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Stamen makes experimental prettymaps
Add another toy to Stamen’s bag of tricks. The recently launched prettymaps by…
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Animated map of earthquakes in Iceland
I’m late on this, but remember that volcano eruption in Iceland a few…
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Weeplaces visualizes your FourSquare movements
I’m still not comfortable sharing my location with strangers, and my friends are…
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Designing an easier-to-read NYC subway map
There’s a lot of history behind the New York City subway map, but…
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Browse street-side with Microsoft Street Slide
When street view came out on all the the popular online map applications,…
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Afghanistan war logs revealed and mapped
This past Sunday, well-known whistle-blower site Wikileaks released over 91,000 secret US military…
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Where all the BP oil could end up
Now that the oil flow has finally stopped, for now, the attention has…
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Global forest heights mapped in detail by NASA
NASA has mapped the world’s forest heights, based on satellite data, for a…
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Maps that changed the world
Peter Barber, head of Map Collections at the British Library reports for the…
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Geography of Lost island
GIS guy Jonah Adkins maps the geography of Lost (the tv series). It…
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Mapping what your neighborhood used to look like
In part of their initiative to get young and old people to hang…
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What America spends on gas and auto
In a follow-up to their graphic on what America spends on food and…
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Where Americans are moving
Jon Bruner of Forbes reports that more than 10 million Americans moved from…
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Landscape chartspotting
We saw math principles in nature. Now how about charts? Andy Woodruff does…
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Find your booty with Bing treasure maps
Maps on the major sites like Yahoo, Google, and Bing have a similar…