Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
Empty Ukrainian airspace
As you would imagine, Ukrainian airspace looks empty right now. Reuters mapped flights…
Investors bought up a lot of houses in 2021
Home prices in the U.S. increased dramatically over the past couple of years.…
Rerouted flights to avoid Russian airspace
Many countries have banned Russian aircraft from entering their airspace. Russian in turn…
Map of Russian gas exports
Speaking of Russian gas, Josh Holder, Karl Russell and Stanley Reed for The…
Past redlining still seen in the present
In the 1930s, a group called the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation went to…
Scale of the Tonga eruption
Manas Sharma and Simon Scarr used satellite imagery to show the scale of…
Global ripple effect from underwater volcano
An underwater volcano erupted about 40 miles off the coast of the main…
All-time temperature records broken in 2021
Using data from NOAA, Krishna Karra and Tim Wallace for The New York…
Drop rain anywhere in the world and see where it ends up
One of my favorites of the year, Sam Learner’s River Runner shows you…
David Rumsey Map Center, cataloging historical works
The David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford houses hundreds of thousands of maps…
Shifting currents and melting ice in the Antarctic
Based on data from autonomous sensors floating in the oceans, researchers are able…
Mapping the weather disasters of 2021
Zach Levitt and Bonnie Berkowitz for The Washington Post mapped and animated the…
Animated map of microplastics in the ocean
Using estimates based on satellite data, Joshua Stevens for NASA Earth Observatory mapped…
Shrinking the Mercator projection to equal area
It’s been a while since we got our regular reminder that the Mercator…
Map made of candy corn to show corn production
With candy corn as her medium, Jill Hubley mapped corn production in the…