Maps

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

Insisting on beautiful maps

Maps / book, NACIS

In the Atlas of Design, published by the North American Cartographic Information Society,…
Tracking homicides in Washington, D.C. →

Maps / homicide, Washington Post

In a multipart special report, The Washington Post investigated homicides in the nation’s…
Solar energy potential, mapped in Cambridge →

Maps

Sustainable Design Lab at MIT and MoDe Studio estimated the potential hotspots for…
State of polar bear populations →

Maps / environment, Periscopic

There are an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears in the world, and…
Game: Match states on a blank map →

Maps / game, interactive, states

In case you’re interested in learning how much you suck at US state…
Global cloud coverage

Maps / Google, weather

In the latest Chrome experiment, Google mapped cloud coverage around the world in…
Bike patterns

Maps / animation, biking

Jo Wood, a professor of visual analytics, visualized five million bike rides using…
Voting similarities between Netherland cities

Maps / government, interactive, Jan Willem Tulp

This month the Netherlands held national elections, and now that the results are…
Link

Comparing Map Projections →

Maps / link, projections

Slick demo showing what projections preserve and lose
Presidential campaign stops mapped →

Maps / government, Washington Post

Emily Chow, Ted Mellnik, and Karen Yourish for The Washington Post mapped where…
How people are connected on Facebook, by country

Maps / facebook, Stamen

As part of the Stories initiative that Facebook launched yesterday, an interactive map…
Mapping urban footprint

Maps / density, urban

After identifying 129 metropolitan regions that represent 35 percent of the world’s urban…
How NASA visualizes large datasets

Maps / NASA

Horace Mitchell, director of the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio discusses the process behind…
Physics as a geographic map

Maps

The fictional map of physics by Bernard H. Porter in 1939 reads:
Containing…
Link

Making of Perpetual Ocean →

Maps / link, NASA

Making of Perpetual Ocean. NASA interview on how they made this; surprisingly, they used Maya and RenderMan
Fire forecasts across the United States →

Maps / fire, NPR

As megafires in the Southwest are becoming the new normal, NPR reports in…
Amazon election map, based on book sales

Maps / Amazon, government

Amazon used their book sales data to color a map red and blue.…
Most common London surnames mapped →

Maps / interactive, London, surnames

James Cheshire, a geography lecturer at the University College London, mapped common surnames…

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