Maps

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

Mapping the weather disasters of 2021

Maps / climate change, disaster, Washington Post

Zach Levitt and Bonnie Berkowitz for The Washington Post mapped and animated the…
Animated map of microplastics in the ocean

Maps / NASA, ocean, pollution

Using estimates based on satellite data, Joshua Stevens for NASA Earth Observatory mapped…
Shrinking the Mercator projection to equal area

Maps / Mercator, Neil Kaye, projections

It’s been a while since we got our regular reminder that the Mercator…
Map made of candy corn to show corn production

Maps / candy, corn, Jill Hubley, physical

With candy corn as her medium, Jill Hubley mapped corn production in the…
Census Mapper, a tool to visualize population and racial shifts

Maps / census, Google News Initiative, Pitch Interactive, population, race

Pitch Interactive and the Census 2020 Data Co-op, supported by the Google News…
Map of highway signs

Maps / cities, commute, interstate, Matt Dzugan

This is a fun map by Matt Dzugan. Search for a city, and…
Where cancer risk is greater due to air pollution

Maps / cancer, pollution, ProPublica

Based on five years of data from EPA models, ProPublica mapped areas in…
Mapping the probable heat around the world

Maps / climate, global warming, Probable Futures, temperature

Earth is getting warmer, and the previously abstract concept seems to grow more…
3-D rendering of Dixie fire smoke clouds

Maps / Dixie Fire, New York Times, radar, smoke

The New York Times used radar data to create a 3-D model of…
Search every USPS mail route

Maps / mail, routes, USPS

I’m not sure how long this has been around, but the USPS has…
Reducing methane to slow climate change

Maps / Bloomberg, global warming, methane

We often hear about increased CO2 in the context of global warming. Hayley…
Mapping climate change in the Arctic

Maps / Arctic, climate change

UnstableGround is a project from the Woodwell Climate Research Center that focuses on…
Black neighborhoods split by highways

Maps / Bloomberg, highway, race, urban

Rachael Dottle, Laura Bliss and Pablo Robles for Bloomberg on how urban highways…
Atlas of the Invisible

Maps / atlas, book, James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti

James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti teamed up for another book of maps, Atlas…
New Orleans power outage seen via satellite imagery

Maps / Hurricane Ida, lights, NASA, outage

After Hurricane Ida, New Orleans experienced power outages. The NASA Earth Observatory show…
Tracking wildfires in the west

Maps / New York Times, tracker, wildfire

Wildfires continue to burn in the western United States. The New York Times…
Diversity within the Asian population

Maps / Asian, diversity, New York Times

Robert Gebeloff, Denise Lu and Miriam Jordan for The New York Times looked…
Race and ethnicity map of dots

Maps / census, CNN, population, race

CNN goes with the dot density map for their first pass on the…

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