The Migrations in Motion map, by Dan Majka from the The Nature Conservancy,…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Animal migrations in animated map
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Global terrain maps from Stamen
Missed this one from last month. Stamen announced the release of a whole…
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Generate your own fantasy map
Martin O’Leary made a Twitter bot, Uncharted Atlas, that posts automatically generated fantasy…
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One-year time-lapse of Earth
Time-lapse from space by NASA:
On July 20, 2015, NASA released to the… -
Continental drift, from 240 million years ago to present
Researchers modeled continental drift, going back 240 million years ago, on the scale…
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Grid map shows shifting states
You’re likely familiar with the state grid map form used these days. Instead…
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Virtual reality map to show Google Trends
More of an experiment, this VR map, by the Google Trends Lab in…
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Piecing together satellite images
You might think piecing together satellite imagery is a straightforward task of lining…
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Cross-country road trip at a constant 70 degrees
Road trips are fun, but it can be hard to enjoy yourself when…
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Moving drought boundaries
Drought continues to trudge along. My grass is just about dead, save a…
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Growth of cities, going back 6,000 years
Meredith Reba, Femke Reitsma and Karen C. Seto compiled a dataset of urban…
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Where people go to and from work
With an animated take on the commute map, Mark Evans shows where people…
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National drug overdose epidemic
Nadja Popovich for the Guardian delves into America’s drug overdose epidemic, starting with…
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Bot automatically generates maps from American Community Survey data
The American Community Survey is an ongoing survey run by the United States…
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Algorithms for the Traveling Salesman Problem visualized
The Traveling Salesman Problem is a popular puzzle that asks for the shortest…
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Global shipping in a narrated interactive map
We’ve seen maps for global shipping routes before, but this project — Ship…
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Slavery in the United States, by decade
Mapping slavery from a historical perspective is a challenge, because many old maps…
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School district spending per student
NPR is running a series on spending and school districts and all its…