Maps

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

Interactive Islands of Mankind

Geography graduate student Derek Watkins has some fun with population densities in an…

A century of ocean shipping animated

Using hand-recorded shipping data from the Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans, history…

Metal bands per capita

By Reddit user depo_, this map showing metal bands per capita around the…

Explore Geographic Coverage in Mapping Wikipedia

TraceMedia, in collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, maps language use across Wikipedia…

8-bit Google Maps, Start Your Quest

If you go to Google Maps right now, there’s an option in the…

How Much More Women Pay for Health Insurance

So the Obama campaign posted this yesterday. Discuss.…

Rising Water Levels in the Immediate Future

Stamen Design, in collaboration with Climate Central, shows major areas that could be…

Live Wind Map Shows Flow Patterns

I get kind of giddy whenever I see a tweet from Martin Wattenberg…

Perpetual Ocean

Using a computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean,…

What News Sites People are Reading, by State

Jon Bruner of Forbes, in collaboration with Hilary Mason and Anna Smith of…

Custom Woodcut Maps

Just choose the location you want via the Google Maps interface, pick what…

Watercolor Map Tiles

A couple of years ago, when you thought about online interactive maps, what…

Visualizing the History of Everything

Big History is a field of study that crosses multiple disciplines such as…

Comparing heritage in the Melting Pot

At first I thought this map, by David Yanofsky for Bloomberg, was your…

Geography of the basketball court

Kirk Goldsberry, an assistant professor of geography at Michigan State, applies his skills…

Geography of government benefits

I missed this one a while back, but The New York Times had…

Growing urban populations

In this simple interactive animation by Periscopic, in partnership with UNICEF, we see…

Mobile phone digital traces

In collaboration with Lift and Near Future Laboratory, Interactive Things explores digital traces…