How much material did it take to build your house? How much energy did it use? This new interactive map tells you exactly how much you and your neighbors are using.READ MORE›
Humanity’s future involves living in densely populated cities. This interactive map lets you see exactly where people already do, and where people still have room to stretch their arms.READ MORE›
What's that heaving into view over the horizon? Thanks to smartphones, tablets, and pretty much everything enabled with GPS, it's the end of traditional navigation as we know it. You can't get lost now.READ MORE›
Whether it's building cities, railroads, or even power lines, our interconnected world has a heavy footprint on the rest of the environment. These mind-blowing renderings by the cartographers at Globaia show the awe-inspiring power of ...READ MORE›
Siri is only the beginning. By drawing together a few recent insights about Google's moves and Apple's innovations, one might wonder if Google is afraid of falling behind its rival--for good.READ MORE›
Navigation, thanks to a bunch of innovations, is about to get futuristic in a way Star Trek's Mr. Chekov would be impressed with ... and Google isn't necessarily along for the ride.READ MORE›
Conflict photojournalism is compelling because of the human drama within the frame: "you can't look away" is the whole point. But what if that also obscures some other, subtler aspects of visually documenting war? A strange new ...READ MORE›
The World Wide Web has been around long enough now that we take the first two "w's" in "www" for granted. And now with the advent of the "cloud computing" metaphor, it's even easier to imagine that our Internet data pings around the ...READ MORE›
The World Wide Web has been around long enough now that we take the first two "w's" in "www" for granted. And now with the advent of the "cloud computing" metaphor, it's even easier to imagine that our Internet data pings around the ...READ MORE›
The Google-powered precision of the Maps app for iPhone and iPad is so ubiquitous that it's hard to think of digital maps looking any other way. But Apple, preternatural innovator (and now-enemy of Google) that it is, may change that ...READ MORE›
The London Underground map is right up there with the Mercator projection in the cartographic pantheon. Designer Harry Beck replaced assumptions of geographic accuracy with principles of electrical wiring diagrams to create an ...READ MORE›
A new atlas gives a sense of what's truly happening in America. We look at a few excerpts to see how much we're driving and what we're eating.READ MORE›
No more blaming being late on the subway. An online mapping tool lets you see exactly how far you can get on public transportation in a given amount of time.READ MORE›
Flight to the suburbs, urban decay, ruin porn--we've all become yawningly familiar with these tropes of modern migration. But a set of fascinating new maps based on data from the 2000 and 2010 U.S. Census shows that, if you look ...READ MORE›
Several academic institutions are teaming up in an effort organized by the U.S. Geological Survey to help turn satellite imagery into actionable data in Japan.READ MORE›
"Nobody walks in LA," sang the Missing Persons, and you know it's true if you've ever driven in Los Angeles (while everyone else also tries to drive in Los Angeles). The Texas Transportation Institute continually ranks Los Angeles as ...READ MORE›
We love globes, but we despise reading them. All those extraneous symbols and endless topographic lines that could easily be confused with countries -- if not for Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego, we'd probably go on thinking ...READ MORE›
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