Maps

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

Map shows where to go to get away from fireworks

Using a voronoi map, David Yanofsky for Quartz mapped the places in the…

Decade-long time-lapse of the sun

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has been taking a picture of the sun every…

When the world shut down, seen through global flights

Lauren Tierney and William Neff for The Washington Post used a rotating globe…

Map of Covid-19 surge

Axios provides a straightforward state map showing the percentage change in the 7-day…

LEGO relief map

Cameron Bennett made a relief map of Idaho, completely out of LEGO bricks:…

How the coronavirus won in the United States

Using a wide array of sources, The New York Times shows how the…

Making a map table using IKEA furniture

All you need is an old table, gift wrapping paper, and some varnish.…

Map shows increasing confirmed cases in rural areas

This map by Tim Meko for The Washington Post uses time series lines…

Moves towards reopening the country

Using anonymized cellphone data from SafeGraph, Reade Levinson and Chris Canipe for Reuters…

Reopening states and how they currently measure up

States are reopening. Some seem ready, and some less so. Lena V. Groeger…

Households that lost income

This straightforward grid map by Danielle Alberti for Axios shows the percentage of…

Map shows US typefaces named after cities in their geographic location

For The Statesider, Andy Murdock wondered how many typefaces are named after American…

First unified geologic map of the moon

The USGS released a unified geologic map of the moon on a 1:5,000,000-scale…

Flow of prison population

In a collaboration between The Marshall Project and The Upshot, Anna Flagg and…

Animated map for total coronavirus deaths over time

For The New York Times, Lazaro Gamio and Karen Yourish use an animated…

Maps of grounded flights after Covid-19

As you would expect, not many people are flying these days. The Washington…

Particle flows show how the coronavirus ramped up

Using a combination of estimates based on cell phone movements and outbreak size,…

Deer crossing across highway corridors

With the climate changing, animals will need to migrate to different areas to…