You know those funny or weird screenshots from Google Street View that enter…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Wonders of Google Street View
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Unreturned Native American remains, mapped
A law was passed in 1990 that allowed Native American tribes to request…
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Barely a map of the west coast
Barely Maps is an ongoing project by Peter Gorman that shows geographic data…
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Snow cover mapped using snowflakes
To show snow cover across the United States, Althea Archer for the USGS…
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Origins of the world map
Mapping the entire planet is not exactly a straightforward thing to do, especially…
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Mapping the sea floor
Jon Keegan on how USGS researchers collected data for 125 square miles of…
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Apply your daylight saving preferences to the rest of the country
We like to complain about changing time an hour back or forward, and…
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Carbon footprint in the city versus the suburbs
Bringing it down the Census tract level, Nadja Popovich, Mira Rojanasakul and Brad…
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Asteroid simulator for before the big one hits
Knowing the impact of an asteroid falling in your city might not seem…
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Depth of the underwater Tonga volcano
Mark Doman and Alex Palmer, for ABC News, show the depth of the…
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$300b World Cup seen through satellite imagery
Qatar spent $300 billion with a ‘b’ over the past twelve years to…
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Chance of rain and election turnout
There’s rain in the forecast tomorrow in some areas of the United States,…
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Geographic misconceptions about the location of continents
When you’re used to looking at the world through a certain lens, such…
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Slow internet for the same price as fast internet
When you pay for internet, it seems like a reasonable expectation that if…
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All the elections where you live
We tend to talk about elections as this uniform thing. People vote for…
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Future monsoon patterns
The monsoon season in South Asia brings water to the people and land,…
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China’s fishing patterns shift globally
China’s fish supply is running low along its own coast, so they’ve shifted…
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Mapping climate-related hazards in real-time
Bringing in data from various federal agencies:
Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation…