Maps

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

Book of hand-painted ski maps

When you go skiing or snowboarding, you get a map of the mountain…

Where Camp fire destroyed homes

The Camp fire death toll rose to 63 and 631 missing as of…

Street names as a proxy for history and culture

From Streetscapes by Zeit: Street names are stories of life. They tell us…

Midterm shifts versus the 2016 election

The Guardian goes with scaled, angled arrows to show the Republican and Democrat…

Maps of the issues mentioned most in election advertising

As the midterm elections loom, the ads focusing on key issues are running…

xkcd maps 2018 midterm election challengers

Randall Munroe, Kelsey Harris, and Max Goodman for xkcd mapped all the challengers…

Graveyards of America mapped

It’s Halloween. Joshua Stevens mapped all the graveyards: Right away I was struck…

Geography of voter turnout

Based on data from Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, The Washington…

A closer look at the U.S.-Mexico border

The Washington Post provides a flyover view of the barriers at the U.S.-Mexico…

Mapping all the buildings

A few months back, Microsoft released a comprehensive dataset that included the estimated…

Mapping predominant race block by block

Based on data from the Census Bureau, National Geographic mapped predominant race in…

Mapping opportunity for children, based on where they grew up

Opportunity Atlas, a collaboration between Opportunity Insights and the Census Bureau, is the…

Summer rain levels compared to the norms

Tim Meko and Aaron Steckelberg for The Washington Post compared this summer’s rains…

Judging connectedness of American communities, based on Facebook friendships

We talk about geographic bubbles a lot these days. Some areas are isolated,…

Watch rising river levels after Hurricane Florence

Hurricane Florence brought a lot of rain, which in turn made river levels…

3-D view inside Typhoon Mangkhut

Typhoon Mangkhut went through the northern end of the Phillipines a few days…

Hurricane Florence trackers

Hurricane Florence is forecast to touch down Thursday night or Friday, and what’s…

Night lights mapped as terrain

You’ve probably seen the maps of Earth at night. It gives you a…