Maps

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

Open source mapping lab

Maps / Mapzen, open-source

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

Maps / cartogram, environment, New York Times, Upshot

As you may or may not know, climate change could bring with it…
Hand-drawn, detailed city maps

Maps / hand-drawn, illustration

Maps can be about a lot of things, from strictly geography and location…
Old maps overlaid on Google Maps

Maps / British Library, 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

Maps / Milky Way, nature, supercluster

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

Maps / education, ethnicity, MetroTrends

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

Maps / levees, Louisiana, ProPublica

Louisiana is quickly losing much of its coast to the Gulf of Mexico.…
Introvert’s heart mapped

Maps / Gemma Correll, humor, introvert

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

Maps / environment, National Geographic, plastic

In research efforts to understand marine debris, Andres Cozar Cabañas et al recently…
Everywhere Jonny Cash went, man

Maps / humor, Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash says he went to a lot of places in his song,…
Talking Ferguson on Twitter and localness

Maps / Ferguson, Twitter

For trending topics, Twitter likes to show an animated map of how a…
Map of military surplus distribution

Maps / military, New York Times, weapons

With the situation in Ferguson, the New York Times mapped the distribution of…
Interactive documentary takes you through space and orbits

Maps / Google, space, video

Impressive work in A Spacecraft for All:
This Chrome Experiment follows the unlikely…
Where the poor live, a decade comparison

Maps / MetroTrends, poverty

To better understand race and poverty, MetroTrends maps where people live whose income…
Mapping the spread of drought, nationally →

Maps / drought, New York Times, Upshot

Although California has perhaps had it the worst, drought also affects other states,…
Cultural history via where notable people died

Maps / death, Freebase, influence

A group of researchers used where “notable individuals” were born and place of…
Explorations of People Movements

Maps / human, location, movement, privacy

A new data source gave rise to a different set of visualization projects. We see people.
Misery index based on perceived temperature →

Maps / globe, weather, wind

Late last year, Cameron Beccario made a wind map for earth, inspired by…

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