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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...