Search results for 21St Century Cartography

SYMAPping the Puget Sound: Exploring Early Techniques in Computer Cartography

The 1970 Census was the first United States decennial census to be released in machine-readable format, allowing cartographers sudden access to large amounts of aggregated demograp...

The First Systematic Survey Meets Modern DEM

Mapterhorn is an open-source terrain data pipeline. Its core idea is deceptively simple: take the best available open elevation datasets from around the world, normalize them, and...

The New World Order - Mapped

Atlas Absurdo If there is one thing we've learned in the 21st Century, it is that planet Earth is in need of some major reorganization. The first task in this global reshuffle?...

The World is Your Canvas

DrawonMaps is a fascinating new interactive map that turns urban infrastructure into an artistic medium. The premise is simple but technically impressive: you upload an image, and...

Address to Impress

There are already loads of online tools available to help you create your own map posters. Many of these, such as Mapiful and Mapness, allow you to design your poster, pay a fee, a...

The World is Your Canvas

Pixtera is a brand new browser-based collaborative pixel art map that turns the whole world into a shared canvas. Built on MapLibre and OpenStreetMap data, it lets users z...

The New Era of American Migration

Last month, CORRECTIV released an interactive map, Where Europe’s Population is Shrinking, which visualizes Europe's general pattern of rural depopulation and the subtle t...

Cartographers review movie maps

John Nelson and Peter Atwood review maps that appeared in movies, such as…Tags: cartography, fiction, movies

Beyond the Data Dump: The AI-Curated Wiki Map

At least once a week, I discover a new 'vibe-coded' interactive map that features geo-located Wikipedia articles. Most never get a mention on Maps Mania because they offer nothing...

Drawing Custom Population Polygons

Tom Forth’s Population around a Point is one of those wonderfully simple map tools that instantly invites exploration. Click anywhere on the map, choose a radius,...

Legible Rude Places Map

This morning I was browsing Gary Gale's Vaguely Rude Places map and realised that thanks to my deteriorating eye-sight I could no longer read all the hilariously rude place-names a...

Mapping Trump’s America

A totally nonpartisan cartographic reinterpretation of the United States.

Where Europe Is Emptying

CORRECTIV’s latest story map, Where Europe’s Population is Shrinking, is a superb example of how large-scale spatial data and clear visual design can come together to tell a nuance...

Mapping the Jet Stream

Ever since Cameron Beccario’s Earth.nullschool.net animated wind map was first released back in 2014 the 'particle flow map' aesthetic has become the gold standard for met...

Cartographic justice for Africa

A Drifting World: The Supercontinent of Pangaea

Around 200 million years ago, the supercontinent of Pangaea began to break apart into the continents we know today. This post will explore the discovery of this continental drift t...

ASCII Mapping of Live Data

There’s something oddly satisfying about seeing the world reduced to text. The new ASCII OSM Viewer  leans fully into that aesthetic, turning modern web mapping into somet...

15 Minute Europe

The 15 Minute City Score Europe Map shows how easy it is for people in European cities to reach everyday services - such as shops, schools, healthcare, parks, and public transport...

The Cosmographical Diagrams of Opicinus de Canistris

Opicinus de Canistris was a thirteenth century Italian priest, mystic, writer and cartographer who created fantastic cosmological diagrams that literally, turn the world on its hea...

History of mapping the Moon

For most of history, maps of the Moon were based only on the…Tags: cartography, Inverting Vision, moon

Mapping the scale of the conflict.

Cool Map to include more than 10,000 spots: ministry

METs Do the Time Warp Again

NYC Commute POV takes the familiar geography of New York and stretches it into something far more emotionally accurate: a city shaped by time rather than distance.Inspired by class...

Revisiting this experiment in pure Ruby GIS rendering.

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/01/09/ruby-can-draw-cities-now/