geography
Where the Internet Lives: This Map Shows Which Countries Have Most People Online
What countries look like if they're sized proportionally to their number of internet users.
200 Years Later, Archaeologists Are Rewriting the Battle of Waterloo
Archaeologists from the UK and Belgium are using electromagnetic induction sensors, magnetometers, and GIS to analyze the battle’s very first killing grounds.
Every Three-Metre Square on the Planet Now Has a Unique Address
What3words assigns each area a three-word locator. I was born in thinnest.coverage.intimate.
A Love Letter to the Best and Worst Parts of Dublin
What it was like to grow up in the South Dublin suburbs, wanting desperately to leave, and then wanting to return.
A New Closed-Source File Format Threatens the Open-Source Mapping Community
A war over how to store the enormous data files containing LIDAR data.
An Island on a Lake on an Island on a Lake on an Island
NASA just published photos of the world's largest sub-sub-sub island.
Get Lost in Gorgeous Conceptual Flood Maps of the World's Supercities
Rio, Cairo, Tokyo, and more get remixed in this series of technicolor topographies from Chaotic Atmosphere.
The Future of Our Gay Neighborhoods
We asked a sociologist about the evolution of places like London's Soho and San Francisco's Castro district, and why gay people tend to bunch together in the first place.
3,200 Historic Maps Of Battles And Cities Were Placed On Top Of Google Earth
The British Library has georeferenced a large collection of 19th century maps, creating meta-maps that juxtapose the past and present.
Digital Maps Inspired By Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" Cover
Love will tear us apart, but these maps will bring a lot of data together.
Virtual Maps Predict How Earthquakes Will Hit Cities
LA would be shaken harder than previously thought if it a big quake struck.