Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination - Spotlight at Stanford
There are some beautiful illustrations in this online exhibition of data visualisation in the past few hundred years.
Link tags: cartography
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An Ocean of Books
What you see is the big map of a sea of literature, one where each island represents a single author, and each city represents a book. The map represents a selection of 113 008 authors and 145 162 books.
This is a poetic experiment where we hope you will get lost for a while.
Mapping a World of Cities
A timeline of city maps, from 1524 to 1930.
Spatial Awareness
Robin Hawkes has made a lovely website to go with his newsletter all about maps and spatial goodies.
geoTrad - Google My Maps
Well, this is a rather wonderful mashup made with data from thesession.org:
The distribution of Irish traditional tunes which reference place names in Ireland
getlon.lat
80 geocoding service plans to choose from.
I’m going to squirrel this one away for later—I’ve had to switch geocoding providers in the past, so I have a feeling that this could come in handy.
Emma Willard’s Maps of Time
The beautiful 19th century data visualisations of Emma Willard unfold in this immersive piece by Susan Schulten.
Draw all roads in a city at once
A lovely little bit of urban cartography.
The New York City Subway Map as You’ve Never Seen It Before - The New York Times
The design history of the New York subway map.
Mapping the Moon
A look at all the factors that went into choosing the Apollo landing sites, including this gem:
Famous amateur astronomer, Sir Patrick Moore, also produced a hand drawn map of the moon from his own observations using his homemade telescope at his home in Selsey, Sussex. These detailed pen and ink maps of the Moon’s surface were used by NASA as part of their preparations for the moon landing.
Lights at sea
Lighthouses of the world, mapped.
First You Make the Maps
How cartography made early modern global trade possible.
Maps and legends. Beautiful!
Barely Maps
Minimalist cartography.
Explore Georeferenced Maps - Spy viewer - National Library of Scotland
This is a fascinating way to explore time and place—a spyglass view of hundred year old maps overlaid on the digital maps of today.
Google Maps’s Moat
A fascinating bit of cartographic reverse engineering, looking at how Google has an incredible level of satellite-delivered building detail that then goes into solving the design problem of marking “commercial corridors” (or Areas Of Interest) on their maps.
Google Maps in Space
You can use Google Maps to explore the worlds of our solar system …and take a look inside the ISS.
what3words | Addressing the world
In this English language alternative to latitude and longitude coordinates, the Clearleft office is located at:
cross.rooms.quick
Mapping Mountains · Mapzen
Everything you never wanted to know about conveying elevation information on maps, delivered in Peter’s always-entertaining style and illustrated with interactive examples.
Building Inspector by NYPL Labs
A wonderful Zooniverse-like project from the New York Public Library:
Help unlock New York City’s past by identifying buildings and other details on beautiful old maps.
Here there be robots: A medieval map of Mars
Mappa Mundi Rubrum.