When it comes to sand mining, the Singapore government is often closed to scrutiny. As a result, it is often cast as a villain, guzzling sand from its neighbours while it grows bigger through...
TomTom is the only independent mapmaker in the world today, and has been making maps for the world’s largest technology companies, car manufacturers, fleet management organizations, city...
The aim of this Instagram carousel is to sensibilise people around the theme of threatened species.
Madagascar is the first country with the highest number of threatened species in the world....
London Greenground Map is an independent project by graphic designer Helen Ilus to support the sustainable ideas of National Park City movement. The idea of the Greenground Map is to envision...
Unmask My City is a global air pollution and health initiative engaging doctors and health professionals in actions to improve urban air quality. Shot in 10 cities in 7 countries, each place was...
In view of the public's weak awareness of protecting ethnic ancient books and lack of sufficient understanding of the important value and role of ethnic ancient books, the team tries to focus on...
Our OS Maps users created over 300,000 public routes across Great Britain in 2018 (covering some 2,950,000 miles…) and we were curious to see where you most (and least) enjoy exploring.
The...
The Green Party is on the road to success. In the European elections, they got a phenomenal result in Germany. But choosing Green doesn't always mean living ecologically. Less rubbish, more green...
The multimedia long read ‘Italia. The Airship Crash Chronicle’ by Russian news agency TASS is dedicated to one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of Arctic exploration. It chronicles the...
Birds start singing in the early morning. What can be heard in the morning reveals a lot about the human impact on nature and biodiversity. This article explains how human activity has impacted the...
Wovoka is the transparency and insights layer to the voluntary carbon offsets market. Our platform ingests project-level information from the 4 major offset registries in real time, merges it with...
This project has two goals. One is to show the remarkable relationship between the historical geography of American slavery and the present-day patterns of mass incarceration. But second, the maps...
What aspects of our modern life can be found at any place and in any scale?
A neighborhood, city, and region are analyzed by uniformly displaying selected data in the same four fields: Economy,...
Sankey diagrams show the distribution of households according to security experience and household income, the frequency of interruption of water supply according to income, and the frequency...
Over one year in Boston, 1,064,053 people cycled 16,548,483 mins in total. They burned 56,264,845 calories and saved 1,581,331,745 g CO2 emissions compared to if their journeys were by car. This...
Our transport system generates huge amounts of data. For instance, on a typical weekday, we collect 19 million smartcard ticketing transactions that offer a valuable insight into the number of...
Conditions is an interactive visualization that responds to the challenge of making “regulator-speak” engaging and informative to non-expert audiences. Mixing playful interactions and scaffolded...
With climate change raising Arctic temperatures faster than the global average, wildfires are shifting poleward where the flames blaze through boreal forest and tundra and release vast amounts of...
All 4.5 million Uber pick-ups, and 82.4 million yellow cab pick-ups between April and September 2014. The rise of Uber is well documented, but the geographic complexity is often harder to see as...
Is it spring yet? New green plant growth is one of the first indicators of spring and the end of cold winter months. To celebrate the changing seasons in the United States, the United States...
Visualizing Great Wall is an infographic book demonstrating Great Wall of China through 33 topics. Built hundreds of years ago, the Great Wall is usually considered merely as a tourist...
If you look at maps of mortality rates across the country, you might notice a pattern showing up again and again. It's a crescent shape that starts in southeastern Virginia and curves around the...
From Shanghai to Seattle, the world’s cities are built on sand - massive amounts of sand. It’s in the cement and concrete that make the bulk of most buildings. The glass in those buildings’ windows...
A few weeks ago I set on trying out new WebGL 2.0 features with deck.gl. WebGL 2.0 brings plenty of new goodies to be used for game development, creative coding and data visualization like...
Heavy rainfall and freezing winters – how has the climate changed in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region over the last 40 years? This multi-page data tool was created by Aeon Collective,...
This map was made by overlaying two publicly-available NASA maps showing light from cities at night. One map was recorded in 1992, the other in 2010. By overlaying and tinting them red and blue,...
This project visualizes city street network orientation, configuration, and entropy using OpenStreetMap data and the Python-based OSMnx package. Each of these cities is represented by a polar...
NASA registered 2016 and 2017 as the hottest years in Hong Kong’s history. On August 22, 2017, the mercury soared, measuring record temperatures of 36.6°C, making it the hottest day since 1884....
What is the definition of drought?
The drought problem due to climate change is frequently in the news. But what exactly is drought? When I consult the site of KNMI (The Royal Netherlands...
This project translates a bird's migration journey from South Arabian Peninsula to North Asia into a series of map images in traditional East Asian landscape painting style with haiku poems...