Maps

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…

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…