Maps

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

Wind motion patterns animated

Nicolas Garcia Belmonte, author of the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit, mapped 72 hours of…

Really old maps online

Maps have been around for a long time, but you might not know…

Giant globe display

Hawt. [Tokyotek via @datapointed]…

Map your Twitter friends

You’d think that this would’ve been done by now, but this simple mashup…

Patterns of daily life in Netherlands from Above

In a similar fashion to their work in Britain from Above, CGI and…

Abstract maps of the United States

Esquire invited a handful of map-makers to represent the United States outside its…

Taxi migration in Manhattan

While we’re on the topic of things moving on a map of changing…

Animation shows national migration patterns

Even Westvang uses tax return data to visualize migration patterns of 300,000 Norwegians.…

Bird migration patterns mapped

Birds move. eBird shows us how. Understanding patterns of bird occurrence at continental…

Mapping the drug wars in Mexico

Diego Valle-Jones maps homicides and trafficking routes in Mexico. To unclutter the map…

Geographic connectedness via Twitter locations

Eric Fischer has mastered the art of making use of geotagged things from…

High resolution biomass map, at management scale

In 2010, NASA released a map that shows world forest heights. Robert Simmon,…

Find out what percent you are in

Accompanying an article on the variations of the wealthiest one percent, The New…

World subway paths at scale

Urban planner Neil Freeman maps the world’s subway systems to scale in a…

Designing Google Maps

Google Maps is one of Google’s best applications, but the time, energy, and…

Map of Reddit

Reddit user Laurel Quade mapifies the wonderful world of Reddit. Each country represents…

Where people are looking for homes

In August 2006, real estate search site Trulia had 609,000 visitors. Five years…

Hand-crafted wall map of the United States

Seth Stevenson, for Slate Magazine, covers cartographer David Imus’ hand-crafted wall map, which…