Maps

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

Explore the stars with this interactive Star Mapper

Maps / Jan Willem Tulp, space

Jan Willem Tulp, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, produced the ESA…
Oceans absorbing heat

Maps / environment, New York Times, temperature, Tim Wallace

It keeps getting hotter on this planet, and the oceans are absorbing most…
Swing states are a relatively new thing

Maps / election, Guardian

Here’s a fun one from the Guardian. They go over the change in…
Oil fires in Iraq seen from above

Maps / Iraq, NASA, oil, satellite

Though far away, there’s still a lot you can see, as the NASA…
Out of state, public education

Maps / education, New York Times

Nick Strayer for the New York Times shows the flow of college freshman…
Animal migrations in animated map

Maps / environment, migration

The Migrations in Motion map, by Dan Majka from the The Nature Conservancy,…
Global terrain maps from Stamen

Maps / Stamen, terrain

Missed this one from last month. Stamen announced the release of a whole…
Generate your own fantasy map

Maps / fantasy

Martin O’Leary made a Twitter bot, Uncharted Atlas, that posts automatically generated fantasy…
One-year time-lapse of Earth

Maps / Earth, NASA, space, time-lapse

Time-lapse from space by NASA:
On July 20, 2015, NASA released to the…
Continental drift, from 240 million years ago to present

Maps / animation, continental drift, geology

Researchers modeled continental drift, going back 240 million years ago, on the scale…
Grid map shows shifting states

Maps / elections, Wall Street Journal

You’re likely familiar with the state grid map form used these days. Instead…
Virtual reality map to show Google Trends

Maps / Brexit, Google, VR

More of an experiment, this VR map, by the Google Trends Lab in…
Piecing together satellite images

Maps / Quartz, satellite

You might think piecing together satellite imagery is a straightforward task of lining…
Cross-country road trip at a constant 70 degrees

Maps / road trip, weather

Road trips are fun, but it can be hard to enjoy yourself when…
Moving drought boundaries

Maps / drought, John Nelson

Drought continues to trudge along. My grass is just about dead, save a…
Growth of cities, going back 6,000 years

Maps / growth, urbanism

Meredith Reba, Femke Reitsma and Karen C. Seto compiled a dataset of urban…
Where people go to and from work

Maps / commute

With an animated take on the commute map, Mark Evans shows where people…
National drug overdose epidemic

Maps / animation, drugs, Guardian, health

Nadja Popovich for the Guardian delves into America’s drug overdose epidemic, starting with…

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