Maps

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

Wind prediction and potential power

As we use up current energy resources, it grows more important to look…

Satellite time-lapse of Earth

Charlie Loyd, who works with satellite imagery at Mapbox, put together a 12-second…

Atlas of United States history

In a collaboration between the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond…

All known planets outside our solar system

Jan Willem Tulp, in collaboration with Visualized, shows all known exoplanets (currently 1,942…

Tour of a million stars

The Online Star Register takes you through a delightful view of a million…

All the roads that lead to Rome

As the saying goes, “All roads lead to Rome.” Folks at the moovel…

Plant life cycle shows a breathing Earth

NASA mapped the annual cycle of all plant life on the planet in…

Ant time-lapse shows movement patterns

Ant activity can seem mysterious at times. The pack seems to start out…

Thanksgiving flight patterns

Millions of Americans will fly home this Thanksgiving weekend. (Based on my morning…

Daylight Saving Time geography

Keith Collins for Quartz made an interactive that showed how much more daylight…

Out-of-state gun purchasing

In states with stricter gun laws, firearms still find their way in. Based…

The Sun in ultra-HD

Daang, NASA. Using images of the sun taken in space, NASA constructed this…

US boundary evolution

We saw a similar video of boundary development over the centuries before, but…

Melting Greenland

This map-centric piece from the New York Times is good. They keep refining…

Particles swirling in the atmosphere

Gavin Schmidt shows different types of particles that swirl around in our atmosphere:…

London Underground rent map

In a straightforward map, Jason Allen for Thrillist replaced station names on the…

City layouts in 3-D

They look like little cardboard cutouts.

Way more trees than previously thought, new estimates show

There are a lot of trees on this planet.