Maps

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…

Add another way to make state-level choropleth maps. Stately, a project by Intridea,…

Steven Citron-Pousty provides a thorough primer on finding and making sense of geospatial data on the Internet.

In a follow-up to their map on most used languages in London, James…

On Craigslist there’s a section in the personals for “missed connections” which lets…

How big is the Moon, really? Reddit user boredboarder8 provided some perspective with…

From NOAA, an animation showing a wave of cold during the Martin Luther…

Neil Freeman reimagined state boundary lines based on population. He started with an…

Tom Cheesman of Swansea University, along with Kevin Flanagan and Studio NAND, dives…

A comeback for geography

The Mercator projection can be useful for giving directions, but when it comes…

As the Super Bowl draws near, Facebook took a look at football fandom…

We’ve all seen rain maps for a sliver of time. Screw that. I…

New Scientist mapped global temperature change based on a NASA GISTEMP analysis.
The…

A collection by Jason Davies of the map projections possible with D3