With the 2010 UK elections coming up, the Guardian explores possible outcomes, given…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Swing vote effects explored with swingometer
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Best place to catch a cab? Try Bloomingdale’s
Matthew Bloch, Ford Fessenden, and Shan Carter continue the New York Times geographic…
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Location check-ins during South by Southwest
Location-aware apps are the hot topic nowadays, and with all the tech-oriented people…
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Map and report data with InstantAtlas
As you know, there’s this big wave of transparency going on right now,…
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What burger chain reigns supreme?
In a follow up to his McDonald’s map, Stephen Von Worley of Weather…
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Looking Inside a Bus Routing Algorithm
In an effort to put transit data from the Toronto Transit Committee to…
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Where Bars Trump Grocery Stores
FloatingSheep, a fun geography blog, looks at the beer belly of America. One…
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Sunlight Labs releases mapping framework, ClearMaps
Open data is great, but it’s useless if you don’t know what to…
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OpenStreetMap Edits Towards Haiti Relief
ITO world, who you might remember from a year of OpenStreetMap edits, come…
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Data.gov.uk Gearing Up For Launch, er, Does Launch
Update: I had scheduled this post for next week, but apparently, Data.gov.uk launched…
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The Very First Thematic Maps
I’m admittedly not very good with historical precedent, but I think we can…
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The Geography of Netflix Rentals
Some movies are popular everywhere. Others are popular only in certain regions. The…
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The Universe as We Know It
The Known Universe from the American Museum of Natural History shows a view…
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The Geography of AIDS Around the World
It was World AIDS Day last week and UNAIDS published the latest estimates…
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Can You Guess What These Maps Show?
I’m no doubt still under massive food coma at this time, but in…
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What’s Cooking on Thanksgiving, Mapped and Ranked
Food-wise, Thanksgiving is different across the country. In some places you’re going to…
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Battle of the Coverage Maps: Verizon vs. AT&T
Verizon has been running these ads lately that compare their 3G coverage to…
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Make Thematic Maps With Cartographer.js
Like it or not, Google Maps mashups continue to be a Web favorite.…