From reporting election results to issuing weather forecasts, maps offer a powerful, accessible and visually appealing way to convey complex information. But as a researcher focusing on data ...

At Newcastle University in England, a lecturer in architecture has taken to a particularly odd moonlighting job to bolster his pitifully miserly research funding: Making beautiful maps of the internet ...

The urban aural landscape has a huge impact on our lives—from the roar of traffic and clatter of jackhammer, to the groove of music and lullaby of birdsong. These maps roll that information together ...

Ah, the road trip – a classic rite of passage. No matter if it’s a haphazard first adventure with college buddies or a post-retirement planned escape onto the open road, there are few better and more ...

This Fun Maps post is guest-written by Margaret McKenna, Head of Data and Analytics at RunKeeper, a free app for running, cycling and other fitness activities Recently the Flowing Data blog released a ...

Apple has been working around the clock on transforming Apple Maps into a more advanced navigation application, and the detailed city experience rollout is a significant step in this direction. Before ...

These gloriously rich maps, dripping in trippy neon color, are more insightful than they may first appear—because their hue actually reveal similarities in the way city streets are oriented. Made by ...

World map of color coded density of vertebrate species. Photo: Jenkins et al Conservationists constantly warn that the planet’s biodiversity is in crisis mode, but the world is a big place. In order ...

From Alaska to the Mexico border, ‘Ski Resorts of the West’ showcases North America’s western ski resorts in stunning detail. All 246 of them. The mountain ranges of the American West are home to ...

Is the task of coming up with all those names for regions and cities preventing you from writing that epic fantasy trilogy? Well you're in luck, because there is a Twitter bot that generates thousands ...