Maps

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

Five years of Kiva lending and borrowing

Kiva, the microfinance site, lets you give small loans to people around the…

Getting around Chicago in 30 minutes or less

When you’re deciding on a place to live in a new place, it’s…

Price of weed

I was raised to always find the best deal whenever I bought anything.…

Generic terms for streams mapped

The names of places can say a lot about a geographic area. Derek…

Growth of newspapers across the United States

The Rural West Initiative and the Bill Lane Center for the American West…

Google Map Maker edits in real-time

Google Map Maker is a simple tool that lets you draw your own…

Find popular places to stay with Google Hotel Finder

When you’re picking a hotel to stay at in an area you don’t…

US post offices spreading over time, 1700 to 1900

Using data from the USPS Postmaster Finder and the USGS Geographic Names Information…

Fly through a survey of the universe

Paul Bourke, a research professor at the University of Western Australia, provides us…

Digital spotlights on landmarks

Think about when you take a picture of something. It’s kind of like…

Maps as kaleidoscope in Rorschmap

Maps aren’t just a way to see directions from point A to point…

If the world lived in a single city

World population is estimated to be 6.9 billion people, and while that is…

Data reenactment via stolen iPhone

Remember when Joshua Koffman was posting pictures of the guy who had this…

iPhone fireflies across the Europen sky

A few months ago there was a lot of hoopla around the iPhone…

Netflix favorites by location

If you have Netflix, you know that there’s a section for local favorites,…

Geography of Wikipedia edits

A while back we saw the history of the world according to Wikipedia.…

Community connections via SMS and phone call data

We often think of communities in the framework of government-set boundaries, but relationships…

Flickr and Twitter mapped together – See Something or Say Something?

For all the maps by Eric Fischer I’ve posted, it’s amazing how little…