Geographers Alasdair Rae and Garrett Nelson used commuting data from the American Community…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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New region boundaries based on commutes
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Physical demo of how all maps are wrong
We’ve seen many one-off projects that show the distortions you get when you…
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Detailed time-lapse of everywhere on Earth
A few years back, Google released a time-lapse feature in Google Earth that…
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American infrastructure mapped
I can always find time to enjoy me some minimal maps. Tim Meko…
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Increasing diversity
Dan Keating and Laris Karklis for The Washington Post map the change in…
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What $100 buys in each state
A hundred bucks in one state doesn’t always get you the same thing…
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Dialect book of maps
In 2013, Josh Katz put together a dialect quiz that showed where people…
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Peaks and valleys of presidential support
This is some fine map work by Lazaro Gamio and Dan Keating for…
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All the ways to map election results
Every election, there’s a slew of election maps that come in all shapes…
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Impact of Obamacare in maps
It’s been three years since the Affordable Health Care Act. Margot Sanger-Katz and…
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Vintage cartography and geography documentary, from 1961
This is too good not to watch. It’s a 1961 documentary on cartography…
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Visualizing the U.S.-Mexican border
There’s been a lot of talk about building a wall at the U.S.-Mexican…
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Tron-style slippy map
Mapzen just released a Tron-style slippy map.
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Century of Florida hurricanes
Florida has seen a lot of hurricanes come and go. Lazaro Gamio for…
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Hurricane Matthew en route
Stay safe, Florida.…
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Map shows two-party presidential shifts since 1920
In an update to his two-party map, political scientist David Sparks shows the…
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Mississippi drainage
Horace Mitchell for NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio mapped the massive drainage basin that…
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Explore the stars with this interactive Star Mapper
Jan Willem Tulp, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, produced the ESA…