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Maps of the Week

Esri has releaseded a great interactive presentation exploring Rio de Janeiro's preparations for the 2016 Olympic Games. Ready or Not, L...

Maps of the Week

The Sandby borg ring fort in Öland, Sweden was the site of a violent massacre in the 5th century and is currently being investigated by Swed...

History Maps of the Week

Mapping Gettysburg is an interactive map about the most decisive battle in the American Civil War. The map allows you to learn more about th...

Maps of the Week

This week saw the release of two very well designed interactive weather maps, VentuSky and MeteoEarth. VentuSky allows you to view a mapped ...

Maps of the Week

This year is the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, the largest battle of World War I on the Western Front. It took place between 1 July ...

Maps of the Week

Choice and Chance is an impressive and harrowing mapped visualization recounting the events of June 12 in the Pulse nightclub. The visualiza...

Maps of the Week

Fuglefjellet island in Norway is famous among ornithologists for its many species of nesting seabirds. You can now explore the island and l...

The Maps of the Week

Inside Asia Tours has produced three very impressive custom designed interactive maps showcasing some of the wonderful destinations that can...

Maps of the Week

Edinburgh Library has created a wonderful map featuring historical stories, photos and maps about life in the Scottish capital. Our Town Sto...

The Maps of the Week

Andrew Hill has created a map of United States rivers in which all the rivers are colored by the direction of flow. The U.S. Rivers Colored ...

The Marvelous Maps of the Week

Eric Fischer at Mapbox has mapped 6 billion geo-tagged Twitter messages. The 6 Billion Tweets Map is a great visualization of Twitter's...

The Maps of the Week

My favorite map this week was the Windyty Wind Forecast map. Windyty uses NOAA wind data to create a global animated wind map. Watching the ...

Maps of the Week

My favorite map this week was this fun game from Esri. GeoJigsaw is an inspired interactive map jigsaw puzzle. The game allows you to sele...

Maps of the Week

There have been a lot of maps released this month commemorating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Among my favorites was ...

Maps of the Week

My favorite map of the past week was this tool to query OpenStreetMap element tags to show land use in Germany. Flächennutzungstool (Land U...

Maps of the Week

The Seventeenth Century mathematician and philosopher Eilhard Lubinus was commissioned in 1610 to create a map of Pomerania. Lubinus.pl has ...