Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
SimCity-like views using satellite imagery
Maps typically show a view from straight above, which is good for navigation…
Average first leaf appearance, as animated map
The USA National Phenology Network uses a computer model to estimate heat build-up…
Traveling birds on a thousand-mile journey
Birds migrate to areas more hospitable, but where do they go? It depends…
Redistricting the congressional map with different goals
FiveThirtyEight asks, “There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts…
Mapping global accessibility to cities
From The Malaria Atlas Project, a global map of estimated accessibility to cities:…
Scale comparison of wildfires
The past few days in California has been non-stop rain, but the months…
Mapping perceived canopy tree cover in major cities
Treepedia, from the MIT Senseable City Lab, estimates perceived tree cover at the…
Family displacements through urban renewal
Hundreds of thousands of families were displaced in the 1950s under “urban renewal”…
Multivariate map collection
I heard you like maps. Jim Vallandingham put together a collection of maps…
Simulation shows swirling of smoke, sea salt, and dust around the world
NASA. Data. Good.
Tracking the aerosols carried on the winds let scientists see…
Bomb contaminants where you live
Lena Groeger, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Abrahm Lustgarten, reporting for ProPublica with a…
High-detail landscape using lidar data
Lidar, which is like radar but with lasers instead of radio waves, can…
Global cycling and running heatmap
A few years back, cycling and running app Strava mapped the paths of…
A daily high-resolution image of Earth
Planet monitors Earth with hundreds of satellites, and after six years, they’ve built…
Google maps street-level air quality using Street View cars with sensors
Google equipped their Street View cars with air quality sensors and sent them…
Cities projected to be under water by 2100
Using Climate Central sea-level rise estimates, The Guardian plots and maps the potential…
A study of the geographic forms in cartography
Cartographer Geraldine Sarmiento from Mapzen explores the drawing forms in cartography, such as…