Escape from Alcatraz - The Map
The Washington Post has published an interesting account of the escape of three detainees from Alcatraz in June 1962. No one knows if the th...
Mapping Vancouver Property Prices
The Vancouver Land Prices Heat Map visualizes the price for Vancouver parcels of land based on the 2014 BC assessment data from tax reports....
Historical New York Map Tiles
I'm a huge fan of the New York Public Library's Map Warper project. Using the tool people have been digitally aligning the library...
Where the River Flows
Recently Stephen Von Worley created a series of beautiful maps, Crayon the Grids, in which the U.S.'s roads were colored by orientation....
The Snow Plows of Newark
On the eve of Thanksgiving the brave men and women of the City of Newark were busy plowing the streets of snow. Their efforts have been immo...
Positron & Dark Matter Map Layers
CartoDB has released two nice new basemaps, which can be used for free in any CartoDB or Leaflet created map. The two new basemaps, based on...
New York Flight Patterns
A lot of maps using CartoDB's Torque library come in for a bit of criticism. This can be especially true of the many animated Twitter ma...
Where the Rich Live
The Daily Telegraph has released a map showing the average weekly salary across the UK. The Where the Highest Earners Live map uses new data...
The Bumps of New York City
Many years ago I briefly worked as a road surveyor. The job involved walking five to ten miles of road a day, painstakingly measuring every ...
How Walmart Conquered America
A new CartoDB map visualizes how Walmart discovered America. Walmart Nation plots the historical opening of every Walmart store and reveals ...
Mapping Animal Tracks
Tracking Geese Migration Between Germany and Russia is a Google Map showing the flight paths of a number of Geese over a number of years. If...
Heat vs Spurs - Heat Map
Congratulations to the San Antonio Spurs on winning the NBA championship on Saturday night. More importantly congratulations on winning the ...
Brazil vs Croatia - The Twitter Map
Last night's opening game in the World Cup between Brazil and Croatia was watched by football fans around the world. In 150 of those cou...
The 2014 World Cup Players Map
Yesterday I linked to the World Cup Birthplaces map which shows where every player competing in the 2014 World Cup was born. The 2014 World ...
This Caged Bird Could Sing
After an often traumatic childhood Maya Angelou grew-up to live an amazingly full and successful life. She was not only one of America's...
The European Cup Final Map
Last week I was impressed by the Twitter FA Cup Final 2014 map. This CartoDB Torque powered map visualized the global Twitter mentions for t...