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Egypt and Antartica are lightning-free zone areas, but not so much North America.
maps

The Least Likely Places to Be Struck by Lightning, Mapped

Where to go if you don't enjoy sudden electric bolts from the sky.
Christina Ayele Djossa May 29, 2018
The <em>Ribbon Map of the Father of Waters</em>—pictured rolled up (left) and fully extended (right)—was meant to be wrapped around a spool and brought on steamboat trips.
maps

This 11-Foot 'Ribbon Map' Puts the Whole Mississippi River in Your Pocket

Steamboat tourists of the late 1860s wrapped it around a spool.
Cara Giaimo May 7, 2018
maps

An Online Collection of Maps Highlights the World’s Saddest Spots

Which way to Broken Heart Street?
Natasha Frost April 2, 2018
The Las Vegas strip of 2013, laid over the desert of 1950.
maps

Explore an Interactive Aerial Map of the Past

Historic Aerials is like Google Maps for time travelers.
Eric Grundhauser March 30, 2018
A global isochrone map, showing how long it takes to travel from a given spot to the nearest city.
maps

Why Isochrone Maps Are Enjoying a Renaissance

As data sources keep improving, mapmakers keep finding more uses for the 19th-century invention.
Cara Giaimo February 12, 2018
maps

A Beautiful Map of Boston's Sewers

It's the perfect day to look at some historic Beantown infrastructure.
Cara Giaimo February 5, 2018
Forest cover of the United States.
forests

These Vibrant Maps Reveal the World's Hidden Geographies

One man's journey from GIS specialist to artist.
Sarah Laskow January 22, 2018
A sea monster looms off the coast of Venezuela.
maps

A Vast, 430-Year-Old World Map, Full of Places and Creatures, Real and Imagined

More than 60 square feet of cartographic wonder.
Natasha Frost January 8, 2018
Santa plotting his route, from a holiday card in the New York Public Library collection.
libraries

The Most Festive Treasures of the New York Public Library's Maps Division

We wish you a mappy Christmas.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 11, 2017
A detail of the fictional Frisland, from a 1623 map of the North Pole.
maps

How to Put a Fake Island on the Map

Frisland never existed, but for centuries, people wanted to believe that it did.
Genevieve Carlton December 4, 2017
For sale: a Waldseemüller world map in the form of a set of gores for a globe, 1507.
maps

In 1507, This Map Used the Name 'America' for the First Time

Only five copies of this early map of the whole globe still exist, and one is now for sale in London.
Sarah Laskow November 27, 2017
Perkins+Will / Quilters Without Borders, <em>The Asthma Quilt</em>, 2016–17.
maps

Multidimensional Maps That Provide New Perspectives on New York City

The world's most mapped city, as you've never seen it before.
Natasha Frost November 6, 2017
From 1570, a world map by Abraham Ortelius.
maps

How 16th-Century European Mapmakers Described the World’s Oceans

For some, they were an obstacle. For others, they were an opportunity.
Genevieve Carlton October 30, 2017
Dowles Brook, in Worchestershire, England's Wyre Forest.
water

Mapping the U.K.'s Many, Many Names for Streams

One man's brook is another man's allt. Or nant. Or gill. Or burn.
Cara Giaimo October 23, 2017
"Energy Flux," data source: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, September 2000.
maps

For as Much as We Know About the World, There Are Still Dark Spots on the Map

A new atlas aims to surprise.
Sarah Laskow October 16, 2017
Northern Puerto Rico on September 26, 2017.
disasters

Help Puerto Rico Recover by Mapping Damaged Areas

Response workers need the best possible information to direct aid.
Sarah Laskow October 9, 2017
A female olive baboon carrying a juvenile. In baboon society, all members help make decisions, even decidedly non-alpha duos like this.
maps

Mapping the Hidden Movements of Baboon Troops

What researchers have learned from tracking 57,000 individual "baboon decisions."
Cara Giaimo September 25, 2017
Gali marked settlements with little houses and reefs with dots.
maps

Why Modern Cartographers Are So Impressed With This 16th-Century Map

A mariner's take on a town in "New Spain" was notably accurate for its time.
Sarah Laskow September 11, 2017