Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata for Information Geographies mapped the most visited…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Most visited site by country
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Greco-Roman mapmaking
Measuring and Mapping Space: Geographic Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity opens at Institute for…
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Cities pulse via Foursquare check-ins
Foursquare check-ins can be self-encapsulated and personal to the individual, where each dot…
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Great Britain recreated in Minecraft
The Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency for Great Britain, mapped 220,000 square…
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Searching for other Earths
In a step-by-step narrative, produced by Adam Becker, MacGregor Campbell and Peter Aldhous…
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OpenStreetMap, the work of individuals visualized
In the continued series of meta-data-driven maps, OpenStreetMap shows the work of individuals…
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Sasquatch sightings
Josh Stevens, a PhD candidate at Penn State, mapped 92 years of sasquatch…
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Game map from Grand Theft Auto 5
With just five days left until Grand Theft Auto 5 is out, a…
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Where NFL quarterbacks throw
Kirk Goldsberry, known for his basketball analysis and shot charts, has applied his…
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Age of city buildings
When we think about the age of cities, it’s common to think of…
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Playgrounds for everyone →
NPR digs into accessible playgrounds, because everyone should get to play.
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Where non-English language is spoken in the US →
Dan Keating and Darla Cameron for the Washington Post mapped commonly used languages…
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Map shows illegal activity in San Francisco Chinatown, from 1885
From the David Rumsey map collection, the detailed map of San Francisco Chinatown…
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Racial dot map
Dustin Cable, a demographer at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for…
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Pangea with political boundaries
What would Pangea look like if today’s political boundaries were drawn on it?…
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BreweryMap plans your next beer road trip
BreweryMap, a Google Maps mashup and mobile app, provides two main functions. The…
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Breathing Earth
John Nelson of IDV Solutions strung together satellite imagery for dramatic animated GIFs.…
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NYPL map vectorizer
The NYPL map vectorizer turns old maps into GIS data.