Maps

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

Maps of natural disasters and extreme weather

Maps / disaster, flood, hurricane, Washington Post, weather, wildfire

For The Washington Post, Tim Meko mapped floods, tornados, hurricanes, extreme temperatures, wildfires,…
Where the IRS most likely audits

Maps / IRS, ProPublica, taxes

Using estimates from a study on regional bias in tax audits, ProPublica mapped…
Mapping the cheapest flights to everywhere, given your location

Maps / flights, prices

Sometimes you really do need to get away. Escape, part search engine and…
Robocalls map

Maps / Axios, robocalls, spam

Other than calls from my wife, I can’t even remember the last call…
Internet under the sea

Maps / Internet, New York Times

To connect servers around the world, there are actual cables that run under…
Inverse map of the United States

Maps / Scott Reinhard, United States

I’m thoroughly enjoying the work coming from graphic designer Scott Reinhard as of…
Stacked bus routes on a map

Maps / bus, directions

Speaking of 3-D usage on maps, here’s a map of bus routes in…
Segregation compared during work and at home

Maps / 3-d, segregation, Vox

Based on commuting data from the Census Bureau, researchers Matthew Hall, John Iceland,…
Opportunity rover’s path on Mars

Maps / Jonathan Corum, Mars, NASA, New York Times, opportunity

After a most unforgiving dust storm on Mars, NASA ended the 14-year mission…
Average view of Earth from space

Maps / average, Earth, satellite imagery

Using a year’s worth of daily images from NASA’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer…
Inside out map of the Grand Canyon

Maps / Grand Canyon, John Nelson

John Nelson turned the Grand Canyon inside out to understand the magnitude better:…
One-year time-lapse of the weather

Maps / time-lapse, weather

Along the same lines as last week’s one-year wind time-lapse, Weather Decoded provides…
Time-lapse of all the wind in 2018

Maps / time-lapse, wind

Using the same National Weather Service data that powers his live-ish wind map…
Vintage map with modern 3-D elevation

Maps / 3-d, Scott Reinhard, vintage

This vintage recreation by graphic designer Scott Reinhard fills all the right checkboxes…
Finding all of the trees in the world with machine learning

Maps / Descartes Labs, Tim Wallace, trees

Descartes Labs used machine learning to identify all of the trees in the…
Make a figure-ground diagram using OpenStreetMap data

Maps / figure-ground, OpenStreetMap

In visual perception, a figure-ground grouping is where you recognize an object through…
Population mountains

Maps / 3-d, population, Pudding

You’ve seen the maps of population density. You’ve seen the jokes. But you…
Skewed mental map of the world’s geography

Maps / cartography, mental

The maps that we imagine as we think about locations around the world…

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