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The Best, Nerdiest Map Of The US Took 6,000 Hours To Complete

Meed David Imus, the OCD cartographer behind one masterpiece of a map. It took him two years of daily labour to make his map of the USA, which has been officially named the greatest paper map of the year.


August 26, 2011
Online

Google Street View Heads To The Amazon

If you find yourself turned around while searching out undiscovered tribes, you’ll soon be able to find the trans-amazonian route you need from Google Maps. Here’s how they’re doing it.


April 20, 2011
Online

Make Your Cartography Dreams Come True With Google Map Maker

Have you ever been scouting out – OK, stalking – an area on Google Maps and been frustrated that there’s a giant university campus-sized hole in the map? Now you can do something about it.


September 21, 2010
Science

Segregation In US Cities, Visualised

In some ways, this is the most accurate map of Washington, DC, I’ve seen: those colours represent the demographic breakdown of a divided city. Here’s how the largest metropolitan areas in the US look after the same treatment.


August 24, 2010

Google Maps (Minus All The Maps)

Madness! Damon Zucconi’s Fata Morgana takes the zoomable Google Maps you know and love and strips them of their very mapness, leaving only the text labels on a yawning grey plane. It’s like seeing a bear without its fur.


August 17, 2010

Mapping Your Room Through Sight And Sound

A digital media artist by the name of Henderson wants to help you reconsider your environment. To this end, he’s created Radius Music, an art project that scans its surroundings and uses what it finds to create an audiovisual map.


July 11, 2010

GPS Map Made With One Really, Really Long Walk

This is a map of The University of Warwick’s 700-acre campus. If some of the lines are a little bit squiggly, that’s because all 383km of them were walked on foot, traced by a GPS satellite.


May 11, 2010

Scanning New York City With Lasers From 1000m

Last week, in the early hours of the morning, a crew methodically swept over New York City in a laser-equipped Shrike Commander aircraft. They were busy creating the most accurate, detailed 3D map of the city to date.


January 24, 2010

This Map Zooms In As You Unfold

Pinch to zoom? Nah. Try unfold to zoom. The Map2, a “zoomable map on paper”, is a clever invention that packs more detailed maps underneath its folds.