Taylor Baldwin mapped all of the buildings in Manhattan using a 3-D layout.…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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All the buildings in Manhattan in 3-D map
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Maps show spring arriving earlier
From Joshua Stevens at the NASA Earth Observatory:
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The Moon in 4k resolution
Based on data gathered by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA pieced together this…
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SimCity-like views using satellite imagery
Maps typically show a view from straight above, which is good for navigation…
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Average first leaf appearance, as animated map
The USA National Phenology Network uses a computer model to estimate heat build-up…
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Traveling birds on a thousand-mile journey
Birds migrate to areas more hospitable, but where do they go? It depends…
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Fantasy map generator
This is fun. It’s a fantasy map generator with the following rules:
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Redistricting the congressional map with different goals
FiveThirtyEight asks, “There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts…
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Mapping global accessibility to cities
From The Malaria Atlas Project, a global map of estimated accessibility to cities:…
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Scale comparison of wildfires
The past few days in California has been non-stop rain, but the months…
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Favourite maps from 2017 →
Cartographer picked his favorites. Better late than never.
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Mapping perceived canopy tree cover in major cities
Treepedia, from the MIT Senseable City Lab, estimates perceived tree cover at the…
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Family displacements through urban renewal
Hundreds of thousands of families were displaced in the 1950s under “urban renewal”…
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Multivariate map collection
I heard you like maps. Jim Vallandingham put together a collection of maps…
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Simulation shows swirling of smoke, sea salt, and dust around the world
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NASA. Data. Good.
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Bomb contaminants where you live
Lena Groeger, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Abrahm Lustgarten, reporting for ProPublica with a…
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High-detail landscape using lidar data
Lidar, which is like radar but with lasers instead of radio waves, can…
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Global cycling and running heatmap
A few years back, cycling and running app Strava mapped the paths of…