Venezuela does not have a government-operated earthquake alert system. However, Google runs a…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Phones stand in for earthquake sensors in Venezuela
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Two centuries of planning Washington
Monuments and buildings in Washington were planned and placed over a couple centuries…
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Large scale hand-drawn, fictional map
Jerry Gretzinger started a map of a fictional city in 1963 with eight…
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Apocalypse warning system, based on fleeing private jets
The Apocalypse Early Warning System by Kyle McDonald was built on the premise…
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Heat stress in the World Cup
It’s going to be hot in North America as the World Cup 2026…
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Melting glaciers in the Alps
For Bloomberg, Laura Millan, Kyle Kim, and Armand Emamdjomeh mapped the projected extent…
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Stacking home prices against income
As a ratio of home prices to household income, the cost of buying…
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Effects of El Niño, a map
Raymond Zhong and Harry Stevens, for the New York Times, go with a…
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Cartographers review movie maps
John Nelson and Peter Atwood review maps that appeared in movies, such as…
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Battle for Hormuz
The Strait of Hormuz might be “completely open” for ships to pass through,…
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History of mapping the Moon
For most of history, maps of the Moon were based only on the…
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Visual guide to Iran’s coastline and islands at the Strait of Hormuz
For Al Jazeera, Mohamed A. Hussein and Mohammed Haddad provide a map of…
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Where leaves are emerging and flowers are blooming
It’s that time of year again when we hear about how the plants…
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Gas prices map, by county
Gas prices are high across the U.S., more so in some places than…
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First images from Artemis II astronauts
The first downlinked images were published by NASA. The best view of Earth’s…
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Shadow fleet transporting oil
A so-called shadow fleet of tankers transport oil illicitly around the world. They…
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History of landscape features
From xkcd, a map sketch of why the landscape is what it is…
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Mapping the unmapped Google Maps city
In most places, property lines stop at the street, but in North Oaks,…


















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