One way to gauge the amount of ice in the Arctic is to…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Arctic ice melting
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Where Christmas trees come from
For The Washington Post, Tim Meko and Lauren Tierney:
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Using old ship logs as a window into the weather in the 1800s
For Reuters, Feilding Cage describes a weather time machine project by NOAA that…
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2,774 miles traveled by a lone wolf
From the Voyageurs Wolf Project, a map shows the travels of a lone…
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Hours of daylight mapped as a function of latitude and time of year
Reddit user harpalss animated hours of day light by latitude and day of…
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Quietest highway route in each state
Geotab made a rough estimate of the quietest route in each state, based…
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Map of nighttime lights normalized by population
You’ve probably seen the composite map of lights at night from NASA. It…
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Daylight Saving Time gripe assistant tool
In a follow-up to a map from a few years back, Andy Woodruff…
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Mapping chemical plants, the pollution around them, and more chemical plants
ProPublica, with The Advocate and The Times-Picayune, estimated chemical concentrations in a highly…
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Worst performing circuits mapped with fire risk
This month PG&E has been shutting down power to thousands of households in…
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High-resolution satellite image of Kincade fire, up close from far away
I feel like satellite imagery has upped its skillset in recent years. According…
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Kincade fire in Sonoma County via satellite imagery
You can see the time-lapsed imagery with this browser. [via @weatherdak]…
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Scientology city takeover
For Tampa Bay Times, Tracey McManus and Eli Murray delve into the purchasing…
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Fall foliage colors mapped
For The Washington Post, Lauren Tierney and Joe Fox mapped fall foliage colors…
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Fixing the ‘impeach this’ map with a transition to a cartogram
As discussed previously, the “impeach this” map has some issues. Mainly, it equates…
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Game: How many US cities can you name?
How many US cities can you name? Here’s a quick and fun game…
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Street suffixes show the organization of cities
The suffixes on street names can say a lot about a neighborhood. A…
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Who owns the most land in the U.S.
Bloomberg News mapped the land owned by the largest owners:
The 100 largest…