In September 1940, Nazi Germany began bombing London for 76 consecutive nights in…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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History of the Blitz bombings
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Race and ethnicity mapped by block
Instead of breaking up demographics by defined boundaries, Bill Rankin uses dots to…
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The state of mapping APIs
O’Reilly Radar surveys the state of mapping APIs from old sources (like Google)…
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Evolving path of the Mississippi River
We often think of rivers as following a given path for the course…
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Where your neighbors commute to and from
Some people live in areas where a one-hour commute both ways is common,…
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Battle for Web supremacy
Blend Interactive maps points of control for the Web 2.0 Summit in the…
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Social life of Foursquare users mapped
Foursquare, the location-based social network, lets people share their location with others in…
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Mapping the moves of New York residents
A couple of months back, WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show asked listeners who…
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Asteroid discoveries over past 30 years visualized
This animation by Scott Manley of the Armagh Observatory shows a beautiful view…
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Map of who owns the Arctic
Do you know who owns the Arctic? As it turns out, it’s a…
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If major environmental disasters happened in your neighborhood…
When major environmental disasters occur, thousands of people are often affected, but it’s…
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Design advanced online and interactive maps with Polymaps
In a collaboration between SimpleGeo, who makes location data easier to access, and…
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Bus movements in San Francisco animated
Eric Fischer has been having a good bit of fun with maps lately.…
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Stamen makes experimental prettymaps
Add another toy to Stamen’s bag of tricks. The recently launched prettymaps by…
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Animated map of earthquakes in Iceland
I’m late on this, but remember that volcano eruption in Iceland a few…
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Weeplaces visualizes your FourSquare movements
I’m still not comfortable sharing my location with strangers, and my friends are…
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Designing an easier-to-read NYC subway map
There’s a lot of history behind the New York City subway map, but…
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Browse street-side with Microsoft Street Slide
When street view came out on all the the popular online map applications,…