Food Stamps Across the Country
"The number of food stamp recipients has climbed by about 10 million over the past two years, resulting in a program that now feeds 1 in 8 Americans and nearly 1 in 4 children."Thanks to Franny...
View ArticleCan an Upstart Mapmaker Beat Google and Microsoft at Their Own Game?
Fleishman outlines the company's two-fold approach, which allows the upstart to compete with the major mapmaking players.Publication Date: Thu, 04/04/2013
View ArticleThe Mapping Tool that Helped Identify the Ebola Outbreak
"HealthMap is an open-source network that is constantly collecting information from news reports, health officials, social media and governments around the world to deliver real-time intelligence on a...
View ArticleReal Estate Boom and Bust Hit Minorities the Hardest
"African Americans and Hispanics are still feeling the pain of the housing bust, and they’re feeling it more acutely than white Americans, even all these years later," reports Dina...
View ArticleAn Interactive Map of California's Urban Water Use
"A new web app from the Pacific Institute shows how different California cities are responding to the ongoing drought.Publication Date: Wed, 01/14/2015
View ArticleA New Interactive Mapping Tool Showcases Chicago Region's Mobility...
According to an article by Rachel Dovey, "a picture is worth a thousand wonky words like 'infrastructure,' which — numerous sourcesPublication Date: Fri, 01/30/2015
View ArticleCityMap Expands to the Global Stage with its Social Mapping System
"Citymaps, which launched in 2012 as a map of every shop in New York City—and eventually evolved into a social map complete with recommendations from friends—is now officially global," reports Matthew...
View ArticleInteractive Maps Track Drought and More
Geoff McGhee provides insight and access to two interactive graphics that "track changes in two crucial drought indicators." The graphics, which are intended to better track climatic conditions around...
View ArticleFriday Eye Candy: Explore Manhattan in 1609
"The Wildlife Conservation Society’s Welikia Project (named after the Lenape term for “my good home”) is an ambitious, interactive re-creation of what Manhattan was like in 1609, when the Dutch began...
View ArticleThe 'Energy Atlas' of Los Angeles County Lets Planners and Citizens Track...
Laura Bliss reports on a new tool produced by Stephanie Pincetl, a UCLA environmental planning scholar, and her colleagues at the California Center for Sustainable Communities to measure the energy use...
View ArticleInteractive Map Allows Comparisons of the Nation's Traffic Camera Systems
Sarak Kliff and Soo Oh report on the work of Jonathan Melby and Angela Buffington, who since 2006 have gathered and maintained a massive database of all of the red light cameras and speed cameras in...
View ArticleA New Atlas of American History
Writing for CityLab, Laura Bliss describes the ambition of the American Panorama project, as conceived by a collaboration between the UniverPublication Date: Tue, 12/15/2015
View ArticleFriday Eye Candy: Explore a Changing New York From Above
Via Twitter, Chris Wong announces the launch of Urban Scratchoff—a website that provides a new way to reveal the changes in New York City over its history.Publication Date: Wed, 12/23/2015
View ArticleWatch as the World Emits More and More Carbon
Laura Bliss shares news of a new interactive map that charts global emissions over the course of 260 years.Bliss explains the origin story of the map:Publication Date: Tue, 12/22/2015
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mapping Ten Years of Affordable Housing Projects in Chicago
Chicago Cityscape present an interactive map of all the affordable housing units permitted in Chicago between January 1, 2006, to February 2, 2016.Publication Date: Thu, 02/04/2016
View ArticleMapping the World's Nuclear Plants
The CarbonBrief website has produced a map and accompanying blog post surveying the world's portfolio of nuclear power plants, as it exists today and over the course of its history.Publication Date:...
View ArticleFriday Ear Candy: Mapping the Sound of the City
According to an article by Trevor Mogg, "a Europe-based research team comprising three computer scientists and an architect started a project called Chatty Maps to produce beautiful-looking interactive...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exploring the National Equity Atlas
"The National Equity Atlas, developed by PolicyLink and the University of Southern California’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE), might be the best and most comprehensive graphic...
View ArticleReal Estate Boom and Bust Hit Minorities the Hardest
"African Americans and Hispanics are still feeling the pain of the housing bust, and they’re feeling it more acutely than white Americans, even all these years later," reports Dina...
View ArticleAn Interactive Map of California's Urban Water Use
"A new web app from the Pacific Institute shows how different California cities are responding to the ongoing drought.Publication Date: Wed, 01/14/2015
View Article
