Ultimate US Road Trip: Randal Olson’s 50-Landmark Optimal Route
In 2015 data scientist Randal Olson used a computer to plan the ultimate American road trip: one loop that visits a major landmark in each o...
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Maps: Routes, Scale & New Perspectives
A map can help plan a journey or change the way we picture the world. Explore routes and visualisations while paying attention to scale, dates and the choices made by the person who created them.
Start with The Algorithm Behind America’s Famous Road Trip Map and Bellerby & Co: The Careful Art of Making a Globe.
Bellerby & Co: How London’s Globemakers Make a Globe by Hand
Bellerby & Co Globemakers is a small London studio that still makes globes the old way: printed paper strips soaked, stretched and past...
Go! World Map by Bold Tuesday: A Peel-Off Record of Your Travels
Bold Tuesday’s Go! World map starts as a solid black poster with the outlines of every country cut into its surface. Each time you visit so...
I Was Here Scratch-Off World Map by Art. Lebedev Studio
I Was Here is a scratch-off world map made by Art. Lebedev Studio, the Moscow design company founded by Artemy Lebedev in 1995. Hung on the ...
World Map Drawn from Memory by an 11-Year-Old Boy with Autism
An 11-year-old boy stands on a chair in front of a college whiteboard and, marker in hand, fills it with continents, coastlines and country ...
North Atlantic Skies: NATS Visualisation of a Day of Transatlantic Flights
Every day, between two and three thousand aircraft fly across the North Atlantic between North America and Europe. In 2014 NATS, the UK...
Ed Fairburn's Map Portraits: Faces Drawn on Old Maps and Charts
British artist Ed Fairburn draws faces on maps. Using ink, pencil and paint on old paper maps and charts, he lets roads, rivers, coastlines...
Twelve Unusual World Maps: Stereotypes, Autocomplete, Alcohol and Red Hair
School atlases show borders, capitals and rivers. The internet prefers maps of everything else: which drink a country likes best, where worl...
The True Size of Africa: Why the Mercator Map Makes It Look Small
Africa covers about 30.3 million km², roughly a fifth of all the land on Earth, yet on the familiar Mercator world map it looks barely bigg...
Europe 24: NATS Video Shows a Day of European Air Traffic
Watch a whole day of European flying in a few minutes. In Europe 24 , thousands of glowing trails spread across the map from the continent’s...
World Map Tattoo: Bill Passman Colours In Every Country He Visits
Bill Passman, a retired Louisiana lawyer, carries his travel diary on his back. Around 2010 he had a large world map tattooed across it, an...