Urban Hydrology & Movies

Dan Hill explores the LA River's role as a character in the many movies and scenes that have been filmed there.

Urban Sprawl Satellite View

The Devastating impact of 30 Years of Sprawl, as seen from space

The Reddit Network Visualized Using the GoogleMaps API

A zoomable, searchable map visualising the links between different subreddit posts from Thu, 23 Jun 2005 18:50:02 GMT to Thu, 28 Mar 2013 01:24:17 GMT

Recurring Developments is an interactive visualization of running jokes in Arrested Development

The Geography of Hate

Geography of Hate is part of a larger project by Dr. Monica Stephens of Humboldt State University (HSU) identifying the geographic origins of online hate speech.

Decent Kannai Ramen

View Larger Map

Flightradar24

Flightradar24 shows live air traffic from around the world.

Horinouchi Station

Horinouchi Station, Suginami, Tokyo, Japan, 35.263547,139.686728

View larger map

World Countries by Level of Corruption

View full size map

Why Climate Change Is Not an Environmental Issue

"This video is to promote general awareness of the science of climate change. It was edited and narrated by @ryanlcooper, using illustrations from around the web. Find more of my stuff at http://www.ryanlouiscooper.com. It was inspired largely by something David Roberts wrote: http://grist.org/article/2010-08-09-e... Find David at http://grist.org/author/david-roberts/ and @drgrist."

CIA's Drone War

A new , interactive graphic which uses the Bureau’s drone data

Click here for the interactive graphic

Topoquilts

A line of quilts based on the topography of city parks and urban landscape

Map My Cat

A blog about the search for accurate geospatial data concerning one's cat.

The 22 Countries Britain has NOT Invaded

Full size map

North Korean Rockets

SEOUL – North Korea has tested short-range missiles in the Sea of Japan (known as the East Sea in Korea), in an apparent attempt to counter-act joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.

Real Time Air Pollution Map

Tokyo and Beijing have agreed to promote technical cooperation and explore further measures for dealing with the harmful air pollution drifting to Japan from China, a government official said.

The Yeti

The trek across the Antarctic ice sheet is a long, hazardous, and costly journey for scientific researchers working in the world’s most remote location..

Celebrity Recolonization of Africa

The new scramble for Africa has its share of adventurers, would-be saviors, and even turf battles. As Madonna's publicist explains, "She's focusing on Malawi. South Africa is Oprah's territory." The map above takes a lighter look at the sometimes serious, sometimes silly business of celebrity altruism.

White Flight

"It is not wrong to discuss the cultural changes that large-scale immigration can cause, such as 'white flight' from certain areas in London"

Obesity Worldwide

The World Health Organisation (WHO) database contains global comparisons of overweight and obesity prevalence broken down over time. The map shows the overweight and obesity (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m²) prevalence by gender and country.

US Race & Ethnicity 2010

Eric Fischer's flickr photostream illustrating Race and ethnicity 2010 in the US

Detailed North Korea Map

Before
After
Googlemap
View in larger map
Google has unveiled a detailed map of North Korea. The map is a culmination of years of data collected from "citizen cartographers' via the Map Maker feature of the company's Google Maps software. Read article

Peoplemovin

Interactive data visualization of migration around the world.

America's Housing Patterns

"See the big picture of how suburban developments are changing the country's landscape, with aerial photos and ideas for the future"

Smog from Space

Taken by the Suomi NPP satellite, the image above shows a titanic cloak of smog that had settled over China.

Stochasticplanet

Every day a PHP script picks a random spot on the land mass of Earth. The nearest photo to that spot is posted here.

View of Australia Bush Fires from Space

A CANADIAN engineer tweeting incredible images of Earth from Space has photographed Australia's bushfires from the International Space Station.

China's Growing Drug Appetite

The country's economy has exploded over the past quarter-century. And so has the market for narcotics whose use was once virtually unheard of.

Read article

Country size by population

View full size map