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chirp: I designed and illustrated a map and guide to Golden...
chirp:I designed and illustrated a map and guide to Golden Gate Park, and the Bold Italic produced a beautiful screenprint of it! There are tiny animals and tiny poops and a pizza slice and a hot...
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Florian Pucher - Land Carpet Hong Kong (2012) One of a series of...
Florian Pucher - Land Carpet Hong Kong (2012)One of a series of hand-crafted rugs derived from satellite imagery. The Hong Kong version, above, auctioned for more than 10,000...
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Screenshot from: Ta Virot Chiraphadhanakul - Bay Area Bike Share...
Screenshot from: Ta Virot Chiraphadhanakul - Bay Area Bike Share (2014)Basically the classiest-looking web map ever.See for yourself at the source: http://bayareabikeshare.virot.me/
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Whiskas - The Living Room Plain (2014) A mental map of a mental...
Whiskas - The Living Room Plain (2014)A mental map of a mental map… of a cat.More info and maps from this writeup at Creative Review:...
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Intro to Psychogeography: The Art of Getting Lost
For those of us in the northern hemisphere, summer is right around the corner, and that means being able to spend more time enjoying the outdoors. With that in mind, I figured it’s an opportune time to...
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Joey Cherdarchuk/Darkhorse Analytics - Breathing City (2014) A...
Joey Cherdarchuk/Darkhorse Analytics - Breathing City (2014)A contender for world’s best mapgif. Read the original blog post to learn about the crazy technique used to make it, which included modeling...
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Screenshot from: Enigma Labs - Temperature Anomalies (2014) Just...
Screenshot from: Enigma Labs - Temperature Anomalies (2014)Just in case you ever wanted the best map of climate change in the U.S. over the past half century.Explore the full thing at the source:...
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Screenshot from: Owen Mundy - I Know Where Your Cat Lives...
Screenshot from: Owen Mundy - I Know Where Your Cat Lives (2014)This site uses a supercomputer (!) to pull in geotagged cat photos from various photo sites, and places them on a map.(But it’s not so...
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Screenshot from: Katherine Wells/The Atlantic - Soda vs. Pop vs....
Screenshot from: Katherine Wells/The Atlantic - Soda vs. Pop vs. Coke: Mapping How Americans Talk (2013)This subject matter should be familiar to anyone who saw Joshua Katz’s wildly popular maps of...
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Screenshot from: Spotify - Serendipity (2014) This map pulls...
Screenshot from: Spotify - Serendipity (2014)This map pulls from Spotify’s servers those rare moments when two people hit “play” on the same song at the same time. It’s most charismatic feature,...
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kevincannonart: In honor of the big Replacements show on...
kevincannonart:In honor of the big Replacements show on Saturday, my friend Pat Ganley and I whipped up this map of the Mats’ beginnings in Minneapolis in the early 1980s. Click to read the high-res...
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benmarriott: For the supporter drive of Sydney’s most glorious...
benmarriott:For the supporter drive of Sydney’s most glorious radio station experience FBi. For international folk, it’s a surprisingly accurate illustrated map of Sydney’s Bands, recording artist and...
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wtf-viz: HT @matthewbgilmore NOAA’s new weather modelling uses...
wtf-viz:HT @matthewbgilmoreNOAA’s new weather modelling uses a harsh and dramatic color ramp - so much so it overwhelms the data it attempts to portray—story seems to be ice vs. volcanos, evidently!On...
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Screenshot from: The Guardian - How voter-friendly is your...
Screenshot from: The Guardian - How voter-friendly is your state? (2014)Ever since I saw this animated/interactive map my mind keeps coming back to it. There’s lots of cleverness and charm in this one:...
View ArticleMatthew Parrilla - wxGIF (2014) A decidedly cool project that...
Matthew Parrilla - wxGIF (2014)A decidedly cool project that automatically collects doppler data and posts it to Twitter, bringing weather mapgifs to your social feed.See the full list of twitterbots...
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Reuben Fischer-Baum/FiveThirtyEight - How Predicatable Is U.S....
Reuben Fischer-Baum/FiveThirtyEight - How Predicatable Is U.S. Weather? (2014)I’m posting this article as much for its writeup as the map(s), which go into very nice detail about the volatility of...
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Screenshot from: Demeter Sztanko - On Solstices and City...
Screenshot from: Demeter Sztanko - On Solstices and City Planning (2014)Tonight is the winter solstice (for the northern hemisphere, anyway). This lovely series of maps lets you peruse cities for roads...
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5 Favorite Maps of 2014
Normally when people write end of year best-ofs, they publish them before the turn of new year. But I’m counting down my five favorite maps of 2014 right now just to make sure there weren’t any map...
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Screenshot from: Tim Wallace/New York Times: A Giant Picture of...
Screenshot from: Tim Wallace/New York Times: A Giant Picture of SnowAcross the United States (2015)There’s something to be said for an outrageously nice-looking satellite composite. Fun to compare the...
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Screenshot from: FiveThirtyEight: Which Flight Will Get You...
Screenshot from: FiveThirtyEight: Which Flight Will Get You There Fastest? (2015)FiveThirtyEight just published their most ambitious interactive map to date, doing all their usual number-crunching to...
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