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Making sense of the world in 14 Maps
Home → Features → Natural Sciences → Geography Making sense of the world in 14 Maps These maps will help you put the present state of affairs in the world into perspective. by Mihai Andrei, January 13, 2015 – Updated on April 29, 2023 in Features, Geography Each color has 1 billion people This may…
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Top data visualizations of 2025, from Pew Research Center’s designers – Pew Research Center
Our favorite data visualizations of 2025 December 15, 2025, By Alissa Scheller Every year, designers at Pew Research Center create hundreds of charts, maps and other data visualizations. We also help make a range of other digital products, from “scrollytelling” features to quizzes based on our research and large interactive databases. All of these products…
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Teaching About Community and Place with Library of Congress Maps – Teaching with the Library
Teaching with the Library Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators ISSN 2691-6916, Share & Subscribe to this blog Teaching About Community and Place with Library of Congress Maps November 18, 2025, Posted by: Colleen Smith, Share this post… Teaching the concept of community to elementary students often emphasizes a local community that students are members…
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Google Maps adds an ‘Immersive View’ of major cities | Engadget
Pan around popular tourist destinations directly from your phone. By A. Tarantola, @terrortola, May 11th, 2022 Google Maps is getting an “Immersive View” that will offer users digitally rendered looks at major US cityscapes, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told the audience at Google’s I/O 2022 keynote on Wednesday. Google Maps is getting an “Immersive View”…
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Mapping fiction: the complicated relationship between authors and literary maps | Books | The Guardian
In a new exhibition, the long, difficult history of literary maps is explored, from James Joyce to Raymond Chandler By Veronica Esposito, Wed 19 Jan 2022 07.20 EST From efforts to map Odysseus’s journey to Borges’s commentary on map-making in On Exactitude in Science (where the only sufficient map is in fact as large as…
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Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps – The Verge
Indoor AR directions, a new directions interface, and more Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge By Jay Peters@jaypeters, Mar 30, 2021, 6:00am EDT Google is announcing a bunch of new features planned for Google Maps, including a new tool to help with indoor navigation and suggestions for eco-friendly driving routes. The features announced today…
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USA sound map – Cities & Memory | Field Recordings, Sound Map, Sound Art
Explore this USA sound map, with field recordings and reimagined sounds from across the United States of America. Source: USA sound map – Cities & Memory | Field Recordings, Sound Map, Sound Art
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Cities at night – mapping the world at night
From the Scout Report… Source: Cities at night – mapping the world at night
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The Most Festive Treasures of the New York Public Library’s Maps Division – Atlas Obscura
We wish you a mappy Christmas. Source: The Most Festive Treasures of the New York Public Library’s Maps Division – Atlas Obscura
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Six maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure – The Washington Post
¶ DrWeb says: Show don’t tell.. sometimes maps provide the eye and the mind with just the right sense of perspective… “The maps you are about to see show the massive scope of America’s infrastructure using data from OpenStreetMap and various government sources. They provide a glimpse into where that half-trillion dollars may be invested.”…
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From Colonialism to Tourism: Maps in American Culture · DPLA Omeka
From the earliest days of settlement and migration, the people of North America have relied on maps and mapping to understand their environment and place within it. Maps have helped Americans prospect investments, comprehend war, and plan leisure in places unknown. As Americans have used maps to explore the U.S., capitalize on its resources, and…
