The basic shape of urban growth is easy to spot; we look at the fastest-growing cities, for example, or immigration numbers. But yesterday, Facebook’s Data Science team revealed a less obvious pattern: Mass coordinated migration, where a group from the same city moves to another. Who are the winners and losers in this urban game?
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Pandemics — the spread of disease through large populations rapidly — is something that has affected our world at various points for as long as humans have been around, and something that remains an ever-present threat despite increases in medical sciences and research. One of the biggest issue with pandemics is how rapidly they can […]
The United States military is everywhere. It’s so big that it’s hard to quantify just how massive it is—any number used to describe it is so large that it defies the understanding of an ordinary human brain. Which is why artist Josh Begley skips the numbers and goes straight to the visuals with this chilling map, which catalogs every U.S. military base in the world.
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With the Super Bowl now less than two months away—Groundhog Day!—the disparate mass transit organizations around New York City are gearing up for more than 400,000 new visitors. And what do out of towners always need in New York? They need maps. Beautiful, useful maps.
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Google’s Street View is slowly covering more and more of the world’s surface, but it still has holes. Now though, you can help fill them—and all you need is an Android phone or DSLR.
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The NYPD isn’t known for its, uh, transparency. In fact, it’s mostly known for aggressively withholding information. So this new, interactive crime map released by the NYPD this weekend is a welcome surprise.
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A well-drawn map isn’t just a functional chart, it’s a thing of beauty
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With Google beginning work on their Google Maps Engine public data program, the folks at National Geographic Maps have been keen to push their own historical cartography to the public. While you’ve very possibly seen some of these maps before, integration with Google Maps allows the entire situation to appear a whole lot more real. […]
Microsoft has released Bing Maps Preview for Windows 8.1, its Google Maps-rivaling navigation app with over seventy high-res 3D cities, Skype and OpenTable integration, street-level photography, and Live Tile support. The new app, hitting the Windows Store today, introduces a new 3D graphics engine which Microsoft says delivers more realistic visuals across a wide range […]
We tend to look at new buildings—especially tall ones—as evidence of a city’s economic health (or sickness
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