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Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Flyover Country app tells you about the ground beneath as you fly
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Changing river path seen through satellite images
Sedimentary geologist Zoltan Sylvester downloaded Landsat data using Earth Explorer and strung together…
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Coastline across the ocean, from where you’re standing
A couple of years ago, Eric Odenheimer wondered: If you stand on the…
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Regional news coverage around the world
Popular news topics change depending on where you are, as what’s important to…
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Send map tiles to 3-D printer
Mapzen, which offers a vector tile service, made Tile Exporter, so that you…
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Hurricane simulations show severe flooding in Houston
In 2008, Hurricane Ike blew just past the Houston Ship Channel, “home to…
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Cell reception on the subway, mapped
Daniel Goddemeyer and Dominikus Baur grew interested in cell reception while on the…
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Wind prediction and potential power
As we use up current energy resources, it grows more important to look…
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Satellite time-lapse of Earth
Charlie Loyd, who works with satellite imagery at Mapbox, put together a 12-second…
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Atlas of United States history
In a collaboration between the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond…
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All known planets outside our solar system
Jan Willem Tulp, in collaboration with Visualized, shows all known exoplanets (currently 1,942…
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Tour of a million stars
The Online Star Register takes you through a delightful view of a million…
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All the roads that lead to Rome
As the saying goes, “All roads lead to Rome.” Folks at the moovel…
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Plant life cycle shows a breathing Earth
NASA mapped the annual cycle of all plant life on the planet in…
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Ant time-lapse shows movement patterns
Ant activity can seem mysterious at times. The pack seems to start out…
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Thanksgiving flight patterns
Millions of Americans will fly home this Thanksgiving weekend. (Based on my morning…
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Daylight Saving Time geography
Keith Collins for Quartz made an interactive that showed how much more daylight…
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Out-of-state gun purchasing
In states with stricter gun laws, firearms still find their way in. Based…