Maps

Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.

Explaining the true size of Africa, a lesson in map projections

Maps / Africa, Mercator, projections, Reuters

For Reuters, Mariano Zafra and Sudev Kiyada highlight the true size of Africa…
Aerial view of Charlie Kirk event

Maps / aerial, Charlie Kirk, New York Times, shootings

This sight is growing too common in the United States. The New York…
Detailed map of a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away

Maps / fiction, space, Star Wars

In case you’re trying to navigate from one star to another in the…
Lidar to measure climate disasters

Maps / Beautiful Public Data, Lidar, Los Angeles, wildfire

Jon Keegan of Beautiful Public Data highlights researchers who used lidar to estimate…
Pickleball courts take over, seen from the skies

Maps / courts, Ethan Singer, photography, pickleball, Upshot

For NYT’s the Upshot, Ethan Singer found the birth of pickleball courts in…
Summer getting longer

Maps / climate change, summer, temperature, Washington Post

For the Washington Post, Kasha Patel and Naema Ahmed mapped the change in…
There is no correct map

Maps / Mercator, Miguel García Álvarez, projections

Speaking of the Correct the Map campaign, Miguel García Álvarez reminds that there…
Moving away from Mercator for maps of the world

Maps / Africa, Mercator, Reuters

For Reuters, Catarina Demony and Ayendeng Bior report on the African Union’s push…
Paint the world with pixels

Maps / cooperative, paint, pixels

Wplace uses a world map as a canvas. Zoom in to where you…
xkcd globe projections

Maps / globe, humor, projections, xkcd

The problem with two-dimensional map projections is distortion creeps in no matter what…
Tariff tracking by country

Maps / New York Times, tariff

From Lazaro Gamio, Tony Romm, and Agnes Chang for the New York Times,…
Map drawing with a single line

Maps / drawing, line

Just One Line is a fun project that recreates city maps with a…
Usage and management of public lands

Maps / atlas, land, public, Reuters

The administration is pushing policies to open public land, some 59 million acres…
Analysis of all the words used on NYC streets

Maps / Matt Daniels, New York, Pudding, words, Yufeng Zhao

Yufeng Zhao extracted words found in millions of publicly available Google Street View…
Medieval Murder Maps

Maps / homicide, medieval

Medieval Murder Maps is a project that maps and tells the stories of…
Maps for why all the flash floods

Maps / flood, New York Times, rain

It is “flash flood month” in the United States, brought on by high…
Falling below herd immunity

Maps / herd, measles, ProPublica, vaccination

Vaccination rates are still relatively high, but they need to be for herd…
What happened at Camp Mystic

Maps / Camp Mystic, flood, Washington Post

The Washington Post reconstructed the flooding at Camp Mystic, from the perspectives of…

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