Germany physical map

Physical map of Germany. Click to enlarge By Lencer and NordNordWest [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

South Dakota County Map

Counties of South Dakota.

Europe Population Density Map

Population density in Europe.   Click to enlarge Map by Rand McNally

Salar de Uyuni Map

Road network near Salar de Uyuni and Salar de Coipasa, Bolivia. Click to enlarge Salar de Uyuni (or Salar de Tunupa) is the world's largest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi). It is located in the Potosí and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes and is at an elevation of 3,656 meters (11,995 ft) above mean sea level. (wikipedia) Source:

CompareMaps: Comparing major map providers

CompareMaps is a great tool for comparing differences between major map providers like Google Maps, OpenStreetMaps, Bing Maps and Nokia Here Maps.  http://comparemaps.drona.ro/

New England States Map

States of New England. New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. New England is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Canada, and the State of New York. 

Florida Gulf Coast Map

Map of Florida west coast.   Click to enlarge

Comet ISON Visibility Map

Global visibility map of Comet ISON, which is a potential "comet of the century". If ISON puts on an incredible show, it could be visible by as early as October and as late as January. But these are the times and location when ISON is most likely to be visible. Click to enlarge Source: HubbleSite - ISONblog

Night Lights Map

Night lights of the world, 2012. http://www.blue-marble.de/nightlights/2012

Indigenous Dot Map of Australia

The City Science group at Monash University has created an Indigenous Dot Map of Australia. Every dot on the map shows an indigenous person counted in the 2011 Australian census. The map shows the spatial distribution of the 699,990 indigenous Australians counted. Indigenous Australians make up 3% of the total Australian population. Looking at the map indigenous Australians seem to make up

Wikipedia Recent Changes Map

A real-time world map of Wikipedia edits by unregistered users. http://rcmap.hatnote.com/#en When an unregistered user edits Wikipedia, he or she is identified by his or her IP address. These IP addresses are translated to users' approximate geographic location. Unregistered users only make a fraction of total edits -- only 15% of the contributions to English Wikipedia are from unregistered

China Physical Map

Geography of China with Chinese labels.  Click to enlarge The topography of China has been divided by the government into 5 homogeneous physical macro-regions, namely Eastern China (subdivided into the northeast plain, north plain, and southern hills), Xinqiang-Mongolia, and the Tibetan-highlands. It is diverse with snow-capped mountains, deep river valleys, broad basins, high plateaus,

The Twitter Search Map

The Mapd Tweetmap allows you to search for the geographical and temporal distribution of words used in Twitter messages around the world. Using the map you can search for any term used on Twitter and view where the word has been tweeted around the world. For example you can enter the word 'Trump' and view a dot map of all the locations where people have been tweeting the word Trump. You also

Switching Map Labels in Leaflet

Over the last few days I've been experimenting with Map Panes in Leafet.js. There is a nice introduction to Map Panes in the Leaflet documentation if you want to learn more about how they work in the Leaflet interactive map library. In a post yesterday I looked at how you could use Map Panes to fade map labels in and out on top of a base map. Today I started thinking about why you might want

The Stonehenge History Map

Historic England's 2002 National Mapping Project of Stonehenge added another 539 important archaeological sites around Stonehenge. About thirty percent of the newly discovered sites were prehistoric or Roman in date. These included ring ditches, field systems, round barrows and enclosures of various forms dating from prehistory. You can now explore and download research reports from the

Leaflet Map Panes

A new feature in the Leaflet mapping platform is custom map panes, which allow you to customize the order of map features such as: the base map, map labels, markers and pop-ups. The Leaflet documentation has a great introduction into What Are Map Panes? and includes a demo map showing how you can use z-index to order your map panes. The demo map shows you how to ensure map labels appear on top

Urban Dictionary Map of San Francisco

Reddit user atrubetskoy has been making some popular Urban Dictionary maps lately. I particular liked his map of the Bay Area According to Urban Dictionary. In fact I liked it so much that I stole the idea. Urban Dictionary is is a crowd-sourced online dictionary of slang words and phrases. It also seems to be a place where a lot of white middle-class kids go to describe their white,

Interactive Geologic Map of the Grand Canyon

The Geologic Map of the Grand Canyon and Vicinity is a beautiful Leaflet.js based interactive map of the Grand Canyon. The map is based on data gathered by the U.S. Geological Survey. The map uses different colors to show the different rock units and geologic strata in the Grand Canyon and surrounding area. The map also includes contour lines. If you hover over the map the geologic strata at

Map Fail: Flags of Romania and Bulgaria

BBC map fail. Click to enlarge Source: reddit/r/europe

Nuclear Weapons Map

World map highlighting countries with nuclear weapons or are suspected of pursuing nuclear weapons. Click to enlarge Interactive version with more info.