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…
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.
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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…