On 6th February 2023 two large earthquakes hit southern and central Turkey, and northern Syria. They measured approximately 7.5 and 7.8 on the Moment-magnitude scale, and led to massive loss of life, and property. At the time of writing it’s been a week since these catastrophic events, and the images of destruction, and unbearable loss […]
Category: Map of the week
The last 747
Map of the week for the first week of February 2023 is not really a map in the sense that someone made a map, but the way we saw what emerged from an event was across a map, and the tool of production was pretty impressive. The first few months of 1969 were quite something […]
Tis the season to be snowy
USGS recently published a map of snow cover index for the coterminous US. They could have just gone with a standard depiction showing a raster coverage with some sort of colour gradient to show low to high. Job done. Except they didn’t. They binned the data into hexagons (the de rigueur choice for binning) and […]
Nazi Treasure Map
Who doesn’t like a good old fashioned treasure map with a classic ‘x marks the spot’ showing where the treasure is buried? National Archives in the Netherlands has released documents including a map that allegedly shows the location of a haul of stolen treasures looted by Nazi troops, and buried in April 1945, near Ommeren […]
Californian lightning
Just a small animated map I saw on Twitter is this week’s map of the week. Colin McCarthy posted this small map of this week’s devastating storms approaching the Californian coast. The coalescing of electrical storm activity as it approaches shore is somewhat hypnotic.
UK Climate Summary
This fantastic infographic of the 2022 UK climate summary (compared to the previous 30 year aveerages) caught my eye by Neil Kaye. It’s essentially an example of using small multiples where each individual map is really only important in the context of the collection of maps. It’s the sequence that tells the story. The maps […]
Fore!
So you want to write a story about gerrymandering of political boundaries. And how are you going to get your readers to read such a geographically and politically interesting, but likely rather dry, topic? By playing a round of mini-golf. And that’s the brainchild of Dylan Moriarty and Joe Fox of the Washington Post graphics […]
Langvann
For the last couple of years cartographers and map-makers from around the world have taken part in a community-driven informal mapping event called the 30 Day Map Challenge. Created by Topi Tjukanov, it runs on Twitter with the simple idea that every day people upload a map based around the theme of the day. Adding […]
Cop-out
I’m a real sucker for cartoons that incorporate maps, and when they’re by one of my favourite cartoonists all the better. This cartoon by Peter Brookes (of The Times) wonderfully uses the globe as a bag of hot air metaphor to reflect on the COP26 meeting in Scotland. It’s my map of the week. There’s […]
It’s a gas!
The scrollytelling form has become a standard mechanism to deliver visual journalism, but they’re not all made equally. ‘How does Europe get its gas?’ by the Financial Time Visual Storytelling Team and David Sheppard is my map of the week for showing how it should be done. I can’t possibly do it justice on a […]