Maps

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

Mapping what is close to you

Maps / proximity, walking

When deciding where to live, most people want to know what’s nearby so…
Map of underground fungi network

Maps / fungi, Moritz Stefaner, SPUN

Researchers are studying an underground, global network of fungi that acts as a…
Geography guessing game, so you can see how bad you are at locations

Maps / game, geography, guess

MapTap is a daily guessing game for geography. You get a location in…
American ancestry map

Maps / ancestry, immigration, New York Times

For dumb reasons, there are people in power who like to put down…
Interpolated time-lapse of Aurora Australis, from space

Maps / Aurora Australis, Seán Doran, space, time-lapse

Seán Doran stringed together time-lapse photos from the International Space Station and interpolated…
Phones stand in for earthquake sensors in Venezuela

Maps / earthquake, Google, New York Times, phones, Venezuela

Venezuela does not have a government-operated earthquake alert system. However, Google runs a…
Two centuries of planning Washington

Maps / buildings, District of Columbia, history, Upshot

Monuments and buildings in Washington were planned and placed over a couple centuries…
Large scale hand-drawn, fictional map

Maps / fiction, Jerry Gretzinger

Jerry Gretzinger started a map of a fictional city in 1963 with eight…
Apocalypse warning system, based on fleeing private jets

Maps / apocalypse, flights, Kyle McDonald

The Apocalypse Early Warning System by Kyle McDonald was built on the premise…
Heat stress in the World Cup

Maps / Bloomberg, soccer, temperature, World Cup

It’s going to be hot in North America as the World Cup 2026…
Melting glaciers in the Alps

Maps / Bloomberg, glaciers, global warming, melting

For Bloomberg, Laura Millan, Kyle Kim, and Armand Emamdjomeh mapped the projected extent…
Stacking home prices against income

Maps / cost, house, income, New York Times

As a ratio of home prices to household income, the cost of buying…
Effects of El Niño, a map

Maps / climate change, El Niño, New York Times

Raymond Zhong and Harry Stevens, for the New York Times, go with a…
Cartographers review movie maps

Maps / cartography, fiction, movies

John Nelson and Peter Atwood review maps that appeared in movies, such as…
Battle for Hormuz

Maps / Iran, New York Times, ships, Strait of Hormuz

The Strait of Hormuz might be “completely open” for ships to pass through,…
History of mapping the Moon

Maps / cartography, Inverting Vision, moon

For most of history, maps of the Moon were based only on the…
Visual guide to Iran’s coastline and islands at the Strait of Hormuz

Maps / Al Jazeera, Iran, Strait of Hormuz

For Al Jazeera, Mohamed A. Hussein and Mohammed Haddad provide a map of…
Where leaves are emerging and flowers are blooming

Maps / growth, spring, Washington Post

It’s that time of year again when we hear about how the plants…

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