cartography This excellent video from 1947 uses a grapefruit to show map distortion Mark Frauenfelder
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
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
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
geolocation Google launches "plus codes": open geocodes for locations that don't have street addresses Cory Doctorow