Maps

Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.

Scale of Ukrainian cities

When you look inside the cities around the world, you will often find…

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…

Many Ukraine maps

There are many maps trying to show what is happening in Ukraine right…

Map of invasion in Ukraine

This map by Henry Foy and Steven Bernard for Financial Times shows a…

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…