Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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…
Animated map of earthquakes in Iceland
I’m late on this, but remember that volcano eruption in Iceland a few…
Weeplaces visualizes your FourSquare movements
I’m still not comfortable sharing my location with strangers, and my friends are…
Designing an easier-to-read NYC subway map
There’s a lot of history behind the New York City subway map, but…
Browse street-side with Microsoft Street Slide
When street view came out on all the the popular online map applications,…
Afghanistan war logs revealed and mapped
This past Sunday, well-known whistle-blower site Wikileaks released over 91,000 secret US military…
Where all the BP oil could end up
Now that the oil flow has finally stopped, for now, the attention has…
Global forest heights mapped in detail by NASA
NASA has mapped the world’s forest heights, based on satellite data, for a…
Maps that changed the world
Peter Barber, head of Map Collections at the British Library reports for the…
Mapping what your neighborhood used to look like
In part of their initiative to get young and old people to hang…
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…
Find your booty with Bing treasure maps
Maps on the major sites like Yahoo, Google, and Bing have a similar…
San Francisco crime mapped as elevation
Doug McCune maps San Francisco crime in 2009 as if it were elevation.…
