Maps

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

Scientology city takeover

Maps / Scientology, Tampa Bay Times

For Tampa Bay Times, Tracey McManus and Eli Murray delve into the purchasing…
Fall foliage colors mapped

Maps / color, fall, foliage, Washington Post

For The Washington Post, Lauren Tierney and Joe Fox mapped fall foliage colors…
Fixing the ‘impeach this’ map with a transition to a cartogram

Maps / election, impeachment

As discussed previously, the “impeach this” map has some issues. Mainly, it equates…
Game: How many US cities can you name?

Maps / city, game, population

How many US cities can you name? Here’s a quick and fun game…
Street suffixes show the organization of cities

Maps / names, roads

The suffixes on street names can say a lot about a neighborhood. A…
Who owns the most land in the U.S.

Maps / Bloomberg, land

Bloomberg News mapped the land owned by the largest owners:
The 100 largest…
Sprawling flood waters across the Midwest and South

Maps / climate change, flood, New York Times

The New York Times mapped the slow, wide-reaching flood waters this year so…
Looking at the Amazon fires wrong

Maps / Amazon, fire, Washington Post

For The Washington Post, Sergio Peçanha and Tim Wallace use maps to show…
What that hurricane map means

Maps / Alberto Cairo, hurricane, New York Times, uncertainty

For The New York Times, Alberto Cairo and Tala Schlossberg explain the cone…
Map shows long-term record of fires around the world

Maps / fire, NASA

For the NASA Earth Observatory, Adam Voiland describes about two decades of fires:…
Cartogram of where presidential candidates campaign

Maps / campaign, election

Presidential candidates campaign harder in some states more than others. National Popular Vote…
Where and why the Amazon rainforest is on fire

Maps / Amazon, Bloomberg, fire

For Bloomberg, Mira Rojanasakul and Tatiana Freitas discuss why the Amazon rainforest is…
Detected fires in the Amazon rain forest, monthly

Maps / Amazon, New York Times

The New York Times goes with monthly small multiples to show detected fires…
Warped shape of the galaxy

Maps / galaxy, Los Angeles Times, space

Dorota M. Skowron et al. made the first 3-D map of the galaxy.…
How an earthquake can trigger others on the opposite side of the world

Maps / earthquake, scrollytelling

Speaking of earthquakes, Will Chase looked back at a 2012 earthquake in Sumatra…
Earthquake trigger

Maps / Derek Watkins, earthquake, New York Times

For The New York Times, Derek Watkins used animated maps to show how…
Imaging Earth on the daily

Maps / Nadieh Bremer, Planet, satellite imagery, space

Over the past four years, Planet deployed 293 satellites in low orbit to…
Gerry, a font based on gerrymandered congressional districts

Maps / font, gerrymandering

Gerry uses congressional district boundaries as letters. Hahahahaha. Oh wait.…

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