Maps

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

Draw a ridgeline map showing elevation, for anywhere on Earth

Maps / Andrei Kashcha, elevation

Ridgeline charts or frequency trails use parallel lines that overlap on the fluctuations,…
Urban growth via satellite imagery

Maps / Emily Badger, Quoctrung Bui, satellite imagery, Upshot

For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui looked for major urban developments…
One leaked file, the location of 12 million smartphones

Maps / Charlie Warzel, New York Times, privacy, Stuart A. Thompson

A file leaked to The New York Times contained location traces of 12…
Arctic ice melting

Maps / Arctic, climate, ice, NASA

One way to gauge the amount of ice in the Arctic is to…
Where Christmas trees come from

Maps / Christmas, Lauren Tierney, Tim Meko, trees, Washington Post

For The Washington Post, Tim Meko and Lauren Tierney:
Before the 1930s, Christmas…
Using old ship logs as a window into the weather in the 1800s

Maps / climate, Feilding Cage, Reuters, ships

For Reuters, Feilding Cage describes a weather time machine project by NOAA that…
2,774 miles traveled by a lone wolf

Maps / GPS, nature, wolf

From the Voyageurs Wolf Project, a map shows the travels of a lone…
Hours of daylight mapped as a function of latitude and time of year

Maps / daylight

Reddit user harpalss animated hours of day light by latitude and day of…
Quietest highway route in each state

Maps / driving, quiet

Geotab made a rough estimate of the quietest route in each state, based…
Map of nighttime lights normalized by population

Maps / lights, population, Tim Wallace

You’ve probably seen the composite map of lights at night from NASA. It…
Daylight Saving Time gripe assistant tool

Maps / Andy Woodruff, daylight saving

In a follow-up to a map from a few years back, Andy Woodruff…
Mapping chemical plants, the pollution around them, and more chemical plants

Maps / chemical, pollution, ProPublica

ProPublica, with The Advocate and The Times-Picayune, estimated chemical concentrations in a highly…
Worst performing circuits mapped with fire risk

Maps / PG&E, Wall Street Journal, wildfire

This month PG&E has been shutting down power to thousands of households in…
High-resolution satellite image of Kincade fire, up close from far away

Maps / Planet, satellite imagery, wildfire

I feel like satellite imagery has upped its skillset in recent years. According…
Kincade fire in Sonoma County via satellite imagery

Maps / satellite imagery, wildfire

You can see the time-lapsed imagery with this browser. [via @weatherdak]…
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…

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