Maps

Where do street names come from? Sometimes there’s actual history behind a name,…

Michal Migurski talks online mapping on the Data Stories podcast. Some history and current technologies. Skip to about 15 minutes in to get to the meat.

With the start of the NBA playoffs tomorrow, it’s worth coming back to…

Crosslet is “a free small (22k without dependencies) JavaScript widget for interactive visualisation and analysis of geostatistical datasets.” It’s a combination of Crossfilter, Leaflet, and D3.

Data visualization group Dataveyes looks closer at the Paris metro system from a…

As summer rolls around here on this side of the planet, CBC News…

Cartographer Kenneth Field argues that mapping on the Web isn’t really new. The technology is new, but the underlying cartography needs to remain as foundation for the area to move forward.

For the past few months, Stamen Design has been working with 3-D data…

The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was horrible, but there have been…

Along the same lines as their NFL fan maps, Facebook had a closer…

Mapping Blank Spots in the Cheeseboard Maze. “IST Austria Professor Jozsef Csicsvari together with collaborators has succeeded in uncovering processes in which the formation of spatial memory is manifested in a map representation.”

Emily Underwood on new cartographers and the growing field:
Geographers have traditionally studied…

Geo Point Plotter by Derek Watkins is a quick and dirty mapper. Copy and paste latitude and longitude coordinates, and you get a simple map with dots on it.

In a collaboration between PEER 1 Hosting, Steamclock Software, and Jeff Johnston, the…

A Globe Hack and Good Old Mercator. An illustration of the Mercator map projection using pennies. There’s some distortion.

The United States Census Bureau just released county-level commute estimates for 2011, based…

Cartographer Gretchen Peterson taught 70 second graders about maps. She talks about her positive experience and the kids’ excitement and makes the OSM index cards she used in the class.

I’m not into video games, and my experience has been near zero since…