Following up on his mini-app to draw ridgeline maps for elevation, Andrei Kashcha…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Make a streets map of anywhere in the world
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Can’t find Iran on a map
Based on a Morning Consult/Politico survey, most people don’t know where Iran is:…
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Where the Australia fires are burning
The New York Times zoomed in on southeastern Australia where the fires have…
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Draw a ridgeline map showing elevation, for anywhere on Earth
Ridgeline charts or frequency trails use parallel lines that overlap on the fluctuations,…
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Urban growth via satellite imagery
For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui looked for major urban developments…
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One leaked file, the location of 12 million smartphones
A file leaked to The New York Times contained location traces of 12…
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Arctic ice melting
One way to gauge the amount of ice in the Arctic is to…
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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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