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 ...

Maps of our cities have been around since the 15th century, but today's merge technology and art like never before One of the challenges facing urban scholars and planners is that their ‘lab’ is the ...

Visualizing the internet is almost as difficult as ignoring trolls, but that didn’t stop Jay Jason Simons from having a damn good try. The result is this beautiful and insanely detailed map.

Clambering in the back of a van or station wagon and driving with your folks to your nearest national park used to be a summer tradition. Certainly, it was for Matt Holly, who grew up to be a national ...

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 ...

Robert Altbauer calls himself a “fantasy cartographer”. If maps of places that don’t actually exist are your fetish, then Robert is your man. Over the years Altbauer has created maps for video game ...

Grab your Stanley thermos and your Patagonia puffer vest, because it’s time to see some fall leaves! Let’s drink some cider and appreciate autumn. The map is but one of but many visuals in the ...

While at university, I joined Shazam as a part-time web developer. I stayed at Shazam for 5 enjoyable years. This post is about one hackday project I worked on. The project involves plotting one ...

It uses the dreamy Earth wind map for inspiration. But rather than using temperature, wind, and sea level pressure data, Dan Majka, a web developer at The Nature Conservancy, used data from two ...