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Culture
Ten Islands I Have Not Visited
Some of the world's most isolated and mysterious islands are collected in Judith Schalansky's gorgeous new book.
Design
Image of the Day: Mapping Racial and Financial Identity in America
Mapping America: Every City, Every Block is an interactive feature by The New York Times that allows you to explore the financial, racial, and...
Environment
Real Heat Maps: Watch As the World Burns
NASA maps show global temperature anomalies by decade, leaving no doubt whatsoever about our planet's warming trend.
Design
Amtrak As Subway Map
See Amtrak's entire passenger rail system laid out like a subway map.
Environment
Map: What If Our Western States Were Shaped by Watersheds?
John Wesley Powell thought our western borders should be shaped by watersheds. A 130-year-old map shows how the West would have looked.
Design
What If the Most Populous Countries Had the Most Room?
This is what it would look like if the countries with the biggest populations were moved to the countries with the largest geographical area.
Culture
Intermission: Mapping 10 Centuries of European History in Five Minutes
Here's a cartographic exploration of 10 centuries of European history animated into a five-minute video.
News
Nicaragua Mistakenly Invades Costa Rica, Blames Google Maps [UPDATED]
Here's the amusing story of how one South American nation invaded its neighbor, then blamed a Google Maps error after the fact.
Culture
Mapping the Movies: 50 Films for 50 States Infographic
For fans of maps and cinema, take a look at Reddit user Subtonix's U.S. map that replaces state names with films that take place there.
Design
You Have No Idea How Big Africa Really Is (But This Map Does)
You can fit the United States, China, India, Japan, and much of Europe within Africa's borders. And Kai Krause's new map does just that.
Design
Typographic Maps: Artful Maps Made Entirely of Type
Each Typographic Map poster depicts the streets, neighborhoods, highways, and physical features of a city using only words.
Environment
Creek Speak: Google Mapping True Stories of Life Near an Environmental Disaster
A new tool for spreading oral histories of New Yorkers living near one of the country's most secretly polluted places.
Design
Mapping Stereotypes: Borderline Offensive Fun with Cartography
Yanko Tsvetkov's Mapping Stereotypes imagines what maps of Europe might look like if they had been designed by Americans, gay men, and the French.
Environment
Interactive Map: The Melting Ice in Greenland Would Blanket New York in 41 Feet of Snow
Climate Central's interactive tool lets you place the ice Greenland is losing on top of your home state.
Environment
Putting Events in Context By Putting Them on Your House
The floods in Pakistan sound bad, but just how bad are they, really? Well, if they were in America and centered around New York city, they would...
Environment
The Breathing Earth: Interactive Map Tracks Global Emissions in Real Time
I could play with this Breathing Earth map of CO2 emissions, birth rates, and death rates all day long. (I'm also a huge map dork.) Basically,...
Design
Mapping the World's Population by Latitude, Longitude
These attractive infographics by Harvard Ph.D. Bill Rankin depict the distribution of the world's population based on longitude and latitude....
Design
New York City's Iconic Subway Map Gets a Makeover
Anyone who has ever lived in or traveled to New York City can relate to the experience of staring into the city's iconic subway map in an effort...
