Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
Map series of oil spill in Gulf
Everyone’s fascinated with animated graphics, which is cool, but sometimes a series of…
Fictional map of online communities
xkcd + numbers on online communities. Need I say more? Along the same…
Typographic maps
Cartography group Axis Maps continues their run of mapping goodness with the announcement…
Europe geographically stereotyped
We tend to see the world in different ways, depending on what part…
History of the Blitz bombings
In September 1940, Nazi Germany began bombing London for 76 consecutive nights in…
Race and ethnicity mapped by block
Instead of breaking up demographics by defined boundaries, Bill Rankin uses dots to…
The state of mapping APIs
O’Reilly Radar surveys the state of mapping APIs from old sources (like Google)…
Evolving path of the Mississippi River
We often think of rivers as following a given path for the course…
Where your neighbors commute to and from
Some people live in areas where a one-hour commute both ways is common,…
Social life of Foursquare users mapped
Foursquare, the location-based social network, lets people share their location with others in…
Mapping the moves of New York residents
A couple of months back, WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show asked listeners who…
Asteroid discoveries over past 30 years visualized
This animation by Scott Manley of the Armagh Observatory shows a beautiful view…
If major environmental disasters happened in your neighborhood…
When major environmental disasters occur, thousands of people are often affected, but it’s…
Design advanced online and interactive maps with Polymaps
In a collaboration between SimpleGeo, who makes location data easier to access, and…
Bus movements in San Francisco animated
Eric Fischer has been having a good bit of fun with maps lately.…
Stamen makes experimental prettymaps
Add another toy to Stamen’s bag of tricks. The recently launched prettymaps by…
