Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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…
Air traffic rebooted in northern Europe
Air traffic has returned to normal levels in northern Europe, and planes fill…
A guide to geostatistical mapping with open-source tools
Mapping with R and other free and open-source programs feels clunky and hacked-together…
The Ash Cloud and Airport Shutdowns
In case you’re following the craziness going on over Europe due to that…
Explorations of real-world traffic
We don't often get to see how cars, trains, airplanes, etc move in physical space, because, well, we're usually in them.
Swing vote effects explored with swingometer
With the 2010 UK elections coming up, the Guardian explores possible outcomes, given…