Maps

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

State stereotypes suggested by Google

Renee DiResta got to wondering about state stereotypes, so she looked them up…

Ascii Street View

Peter Nitsch created Ascii Street View, converting Google Street View to colored letters.…

Great Lakes currents map

Using the same tech Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas created to show wind…

Life expectancy and child poverty as a tube map

Geographers James Cheshire and Oliver O’Brien visualized life expectancy in London as a…

Stop-and-frisk hotspots mapped

WNYC mapped all street stops that resulted in the recovery of a gun,…

The future of maps isn’t maps

Rebecca Rosen for The Atlantic on why maps aren’t the best interface all…

Map of the underwater Internet

Nicolas Rapp, for Fortune Magazine, mapped the underwater cables that make the global…

A year of global cloud coverage

Jonathan Corum for the New York Times mapped cloud coverage from April 2011…

Beer versus church mapped

The geographers at Floatingsheep are at it again, this time comparing tweets that…

Stars in the zodiac constellations, from Earth and space

While we’re on the subject of stars, developer Riley Davis modeled the ones…

An interactive view of star constellations

When we look up at the night sky to gaze at the stars,…

Commute times in your area, mapped

When you look for a place to live, there are outside factors to…

Endangered languages project

Google, in collaboration with Vizzuality, are trying to catalog endangered languages before they…

World sentiment mapped, based on Wikipedia

Kalev H. Leetaru animated world sentiment over time, based on Wikipedia entries. See…

Road trip planner with weather forecasts

Online maps have made it easy to find directions from point A to…

Toronto subway map, Super Mario 3 style

Dave Delisle mapped the Toronto TTC Subway in the style of Super Mario…

Geography of the basketball court, interactive edition

Remember geographer Kirk Goldsberry’s analysis of shot efficiency on the basketball court? Jeremy…

Income inequality seen in satellite images from Google Earth

Researchers Pengyu Zhua and Yaoqi Zhang noted in their 2008 paper that “the…