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cartography This excellent video from 1947 uses a grapefruit to show map distortion Mark Frauenfelder
fiber internet Someone made a map of every Internet-connected cable under water Thom Dunn
cartography LEGO announces biggest set ever, a world map with 11,695 pieces David Pescovitz
data visualizations Lovely tool that displays street maps like watercolor paintings acquired by Smithsonian David Pescovitz
catholic workers movement Meet the millennial who's mapping the Catholic Church's land holdings to fight climate change Thom Dunn
fake towns A fake New York town that only existed on a map briefly became real Thom Dunn
chupacabra Cryptid world map Thom Dunn
Making wine from sour grapes This cool new wine club walks you through terroir, taste, and history with a sommelier's hand-painted maps Thom Dunn
busta rhymes Visit scenic Busta Rhymes Island in Massachusetts Thom Dunn
mapping Scientists have mapped 20 percent of the ocean floor David Pescovitz
mapquest Verizon dumps another Oath property for peanuts: RIP, Mapquest Cory Doctorow
cartography Hi-rez, open-licensed recreation of the 1968 Disneyland souvenir map Cory Doctorow
cartography Interactive map of public facial recognition systems in America Cory Doctorow
great migration The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias — UPDATED Cory Doctorow
lies damned lies telcoms lies Vermont official fact-checks mobile carriers' coverage maps, proves they're lying like crazy Cory Doctorow
new deal A virtual re-creation of San Francisco's massive WPA wooden city model Cory Doctorow
globe Find the other side of the world from anywhere in the world Andrea James
geolocation Google launches "plus codes": open geocodes for locations that don't have street addresses Cory Doctorow
graphs Veiny map shows best car route from center of US to every county Andrea James
cartogrpahy Gorgeous map of ten of the world's shortest borders Andrea James