Maps

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

Cynthia Brewer profile

Wired wrote a short profile for Cynthia Brewer, best known for Color Brewer,…

How basketball rebounds work

Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, looked at how rebounds work in…

Equal population mapper

We know that there are more people per square mile in some places…

Road grid orientation in major cities

This is what you get when you group streets by their geographic orientation…

10,000 League of Legends matches, all at once

League of Legends is an online, free-to-play game that pits two teams of…

Real cities drawn as fantasy maps

Remember that time you were sitting by the fire reading The Lord of…

Open source mapping lab

Mapzen focuses on building open source mapping components for developers.…

Flooding risk cartogram

As you may or may not know, climate change could bring with it…

Hand-drawn, detailed city maps

Maps can be about a lot of things, from strictly geography and location…

Old maps overlaid on Google Maps

The British Library georeferencing project places old maps, as far back as the…

Cosmic map shows Milky Way at the edge of a supercluster

Nature highlights the research of R. Brent Tully et al, which defines a…

Segregated schools, still

The map above by MetroTrends shows the percent of white kids who attended…

Louisiana is drowning

Louisiana is quickly losing much of its coast to the Gulf of Mexico.…

Introvert’s heart mapped

Cartoonist Gemma Correll mapped the introvert’s heart, from recluse corner to the town…

Mapping plastic in the ocean

In research efforts to understand marine debris, Andres Cozar CabaƱas et al recently…

Everywhere Jonny Cash went, man

Johnny Cash says he went to a lot of places in his song,…

Talking Ferguson on Twitter and localness

For trending topics, Twitter likes to show an animated map of how a…

Map of military surplus distribution

With the situation in Ferguson, the New York Times mapped the distribution of…