The Algorithm Behind America’s Famous Road Trip Map
A line looping across the United States makes a tempting promise: perhaps somebody has already solved the road trip for us. Randal Olson’s w...
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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: The Careful Art of Making a Globe
A flat map can be folded into a pocket. A globe asks a different question: how do you carry all those coastlines, labels and colours around ...
Bold Tuesday’s Go! World Map: Travel Memories in Black and White
A black map slowly reveals patches of white as pieces are peeled away. The idea is simple enough to understand at a glance, yet personal eno...
Scratch-Off Travel Maps: A Guide to Recording Your Own Journey
There is a small pleasure in revealing a new patch of colour on a travel map. The action gives a journey a visible place at home, turning a ...
The World Map on a Whiteboard: A Remarkable Drawing, Carefully Told
A classroom whiteboard fills with the outlines of continents and countries. Beside it, a child adds another part of the drawing. The image i...
North Atlantic Skies: What NATS’s Flight Animation Shows
Across a dark Atlantic map, bright lines gather into ribbons between North America and Europe. Seen together, individual flights become some...
Ed Fairburn’s Map Portraits: Where Faces and Places Meet
At first you see a face. Move closer and it breaks into roads, printed labels and delicate networks of lines. Step back, and the person retu...
How to Read a World Map Without Falling for the Colours
A world map can make a complicated subject feel instantly clear. That is its strength—and the reason it deserves a second look before you ac...
The True Size of Africa: What World Maps Can Distort
If you grew up with a familiar rectangular world map, Africa’s scale on a globe can be a surprise. Places near the poles often occupy much m...
Europe 24 by NATS: Reading a Day of Flights on a Map
Bright routes gather over Europe, connecting cities in a moving web. In Europe 24, the familiar idea of a single flight becomes a much large...
Bill Passman’s World-Map Tattoo: A Travel Record in Colour
A world map can hang on a wall, sit inside a notebook or become a digital collection of saved places. Bill Passman chose a more personal sur...