Maps

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

Where wind and solar needs to grow by 2050

Maps / energy, New York Times, Veronica Penney

Based on estimates from Princeton University’s Net-Zero America Project, Veronica Penney for The…
Official LEGO world map set

Maps / LEGO, world

We’ve seen maps made out of LEGO bricks before, but LEGO is about…
Map shows you where a raindrop ends up

Maps / rain, Sam Learner, water

River Runner is a fun interactive map by Sam Learner. Click anywhere in…
Four types of people who prevent full vaccination

Maps / coronavirus, New York Times, vaccination

The United States vaccination rate was rolling for a while there, but it…
Watercolor Maptiles by Stamen are now part of the Smithsonian’s permanent collection

Maps / Cooper Hewitt, Stamen, watercolor

In 2012, Stamen Design released watercolor map tiles based on OpenStreetMap data. It…
Climate normals mapped over time

Maps / climate, NOAA, normal

Every decade the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases climate normals to provide…
Map of people moving during pandemic

Maps / coronavirus, migration, USPS, Wall Street Journal

It was only a matter of time before someone showed dots moving across…
Maps of land required to get to net-zero emissions

Maps / Bloomberg, carbon, Dave Merrill, energy, land

Princeton University’s Net-Zero America project analyzes and models the infrastructure required to get…
Melting glaciers

Maps / climate change, glaciers, Guardian, Niko Kommenda

Niko Kommenda for The Guardian used small multiples to show 90 of the…
States that gained and lost seats with 2020 count

Maps / census, government, representation

The Census Bureau announced their state population totals, so we can see who…
Compare the scale of any area in the world

Maps / scale, Stamen

Riffing on the Ever Given Ever Ywhere, which lets you place the Ever…
Maps of migration to smaller cities

Maps / Financial Times, housing, migration

Steven Bernard for Financial Times, in a report by Claire Bushey and Steff…
Rise of a variant in the U.K.

Maps / coronavirus, Reuters, United Kingdom, variant

As you likely know, there are coronavirus variants around the world. Reuters mapped…
Make the Ever Given get stuck anywhere

Maps / Ever Given, Garrett Dash Nelson, scale, Suez Canal

The Ever Given got stuck in the Suez Canal. It was refloated. So…
Steer through the Suez Canal

Maps / CNN, game, Suez Canal

To better understand the challenge of steering a giant container ship through the…
Mapping all of the voters

Maps / election, segregation, Upshot

In what seems to have become a trend of making more and more…
Pandemic timeline as animated dot density map

Maps / animation, coronavirus, pandemic, timeline, Washington Post

As a lead-in and backdrop to a timeline of the past year by…
Bird migration forecast maps

Maps / birds, forecasting, migration

BirdCast, from Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, shows current…

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