How do you visualise a complex urban environment like Manhattan so that a maximum number of features can be viewed simultaneously? Bend it like… Mapzen’s inception map depicted above and shared by Maps Mania.
Atlas Obscure shared a crowdsourced map of America’s “punny” businesses. If you appreciate the names, “Pho King Food Truck”, “The Meating Place” and the “U.N. Piece Cleaners”, you won’t find Atlas Obscura’s map pun-ishing at all.
Map gurus Moya have combined the impossible: panoramic landscape painting with Google Street Views in what they have called their “Mobile Cyclorama”.
LIDAR news discussed how if more public agencies would open up LiDAR data to minecraft fans, it would have huge benefits for the likes of archaeologists, scientists working on climate change, and urban planners.
Vox showed how hip hop evolved in the United States in this animated map, and it wasn’t all Straight Outta Compton.
HERE blog featured the Babylonian Map of the World- the earliest surviving object that represents the whole world in plan from a bird’s-eye view. Reading it is a little different to what you’re used to though.
This not so visually effective map shows how your country’s debt stacks up to the rest of the world and Geoawesomeness discusses how this information could be put to better use.
VIDEO: British Artist Fuller took no less than ten years to turn a map of London into this “mesmerising kaleidoscope to our association with youth, adolescence and progress into adulthood,” as featured on GIS User.
