Maps

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

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

Three-part tutorial on making non-ugly choropleth maps in R. This is part one. Then there’s part 2 and 3. The blog is a mix of English and Spanish(?), but it might be one worth following. [via]

Hawt. [Tokyotek via @datapointed]…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“a trade between distortion, accuracy, and aesthetics” [via]

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

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

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

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

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

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