Public transit maps occupy a unique place in the mapping world. Unlike most maps, which are designed to satisfy a single purpose, transit maps must strike a careful balance between readability, detail, and aesthetic design. To that end, they...
One Year of Global Air Traffic (Full Screen Version) Select a country to view only that country’s incoming and outgoing air traffic. Built with Blueshift / data from World Pop Embed this on map on your website This globe...
The volume of taxi pickups across New York City during an average weekday (Full Screen Version) Full screen version One of the largest and most interesting datasets I’ve come across yet is NYC’s taxi trip record data from the...
Mapping the long Journey of New York City’s solid waste (full screen version) New York City is a “perfect storm” of waste management challenges. As the largest city in the world’s most wasteful country, New York generates over 14...
Highway networks are often compared to the human circulatory system, an analogy that works on many levels. The hierarchical structure of highways, streets, and local roads matches that of our body’s arteries, veins, arterioles, venules, and capillaries. And like...
Researchers in Germany have turned GPS data from three major world bike share programs into living, breathing visualizations of the cities themselves. Bike sharing programs have grown from just 24 cities worldwide a decade ago to more than 800...