Maps

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

What America spends on gas and auto

In a follow-up to their graphic on what America spends on food and…

Where Americans are moving

Jon Bruner of Forbes reports that more than 10 million Americans moved from…

Landscape chartspotting

We saw math principles in nature. Now how about charts? Andy Woodruff does…

Find your booty with Bing treasure maps

Maps on the major sites like Yahoo, Google, and Bing have a similar…

Where the tourists really flock

A couple of weeks ago you saw Eric Fischer’s maps of Flickr photos…

San Francisco crime mapped as elevation

Doug McCune maps San Francisco crime in 2009 as if it were elevation.…

Poverty in late 19th century London

Alice Rawsthorn for The New York Times reports on Charles Booth’s London poverty…

BP oil spill if it were where you live

If it Was My Home is a simple but effective concept. Enter your…

Uber detailed London map satire

Stephen Walter’s The Island looks like an ordinary map of London from afar.…

Overhaul of New York subway map

The ever-popular New York subway map is getting some work done, and will…

Iraq and Afghanistan casualities, home and away

In a collaboration between CNN and Stamen Design, Home and Away offers a…

World atlas of Flickr geotaggers is maptastic

In a different look to the let’s-map-geotagged-photos idea, photographer Eric Fischer maps picture…

Map of where toursists flock

Bluemoon Interactive, a small codeshop, maps touristiness, based on uploads to Panoramio, a…

Fake filming locations of Paramount Studios

This might shock you, but many movies are not filmed on location. Yeah.…

Senate and House races are on

I’m not proud of this, but I know very little about what’s going…

Tracking the oil spill

For those following the status of the oil spill, the New York Times…

Seeing the art in cartography

In much of the same spirit of the recent Cartographies of Time, the…

Review: indiemapper makes thematic mapping easy

It’s finally here. Indiemapper brings easy and flexible thematic mapping online. I’ve been…