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 ...

Using open data, MapBox is taking on the big players in online maps. Now they want to fix satellite view. In February 2013, imagery specialist Charlie Loyd was looking for a job. He'd been working on ...

When Justin Palmer stumbled across a dataset that included the year nearly every building in the Portland metro area was built, he was curious how old the buildings on his block are. Instead of just ...

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 ...

Sadly, the Oxford English Dictionary has yet to accept ‘cartophile’ as the official term for a map-lover (though Urban Dictionary has no such qualms). But even if the title lacks the linguistic seal ...

From charts of UFO sightings in the United States to surveys of bear population density in Finland to a 3-D visualization of where London’s airport employees live, a new collection of maps shows off ...