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Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Geographic connectedness via Twitter locations
Eric Fischer has mastered the art of making use of geotagged things from…
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High resolution biomass map, at management scale
In 2010, NASA released a map that shows world forest heights. Robert Simmon,…
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Find out what percent you are in
Accompanying an article on the variations of the wealthiest one percent, The New…
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World subway paths at scale
Urban planner Neil Freeman maps the world’s subway systems to scale in a…
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Designing Google Maps
Google Maps is one of Google’s best applications, but the time, energy, and…
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Map of Reddit
Reddit user Laurel Quade mapifies the wonderful world of Reddit. Each country represents…
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Where people are looking for homes
In August 2006, real estate search site Trulia had 609,000 visitors. Five years…
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Hand-crafted wall map of the United States
Seth Stevenson, for Slate Magazine, covers cartographer David Imus’ hand-crafted wall map, which…
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Mapped: Transportation check-ins on foursquare
Transportation check-ins on foursquare. This is from this past Thanksgiving, but relevant again…
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Every death on the road in Great Britain
As part of their series on road accidents, BBC News mapped every recorded…
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What seven billion people looks like
Form design intern at Fathom, James Grady, maps population density in Dencity:
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US road fatalities mapped, 9 years
For The Guardian, ITO World maps about 370,000 road-related deaths from 2001 through…
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American migration map
Overhauling his migration map from last year, Jon Bruner uses five year’s worth…
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What your favorite map projection says about you
For the map nerds. xkcd says what your favorite map projection says about…
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A month of swearing in 90 seconds
A fun map by Jamie Popkin of Little Earth that animates the use…
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7 billion people in the world: past, present and future
According to estimates from the United Nations Population Division, there are now over…
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Horrors coming to each state this Halloween
So many movies, so many creepy crawlies that go bump in the night.…