Urban planning demands agile thinking; after all, cities are a beautifully (or sometimes messily) choreographed dance between policy and design. The excitement that comes from visiting a new one can ...

We all know what a winding blue line on a map means, but until we this cartographer’s work we had no idea a little color could transform the world’s rivers into amazing art. View this post on ...

It may look like a Jackson Pollock painting, but this colorful mess is actually a new map of the Milky Way, with dots and lines of different colors representing groups of stars that were born together ...

Web developer Jill Hubley’s latest census map (h/t Gothamist) looks like a decorative art piece or collage. (You might remember her previous project documenting New York City’s tree distribution.) ...

In this Monday, April 9, 2012 photo a scant rack of road maps is seen at a gas station/mini mart in Solon, Ohio on. Colorful maps bearing the logos of the oil companies that printed them _ names like ...

This image may look like a splatter of abstract digital artwork, but it’s actually a map of the far side of the moon. A far cry from the monochromatic topical maps that we’re used to seeing, these ...

SimpleGeo and Stamen Design have partnered to produce Polymaps, a JavaScript library for image- and vector-tiled maps using SVG, that can be used by developers to build dynamic mapping apps. According ...

NASA is set to launch SPHEREx, a groundbreaking telescope that will create the most precise and colorful map of the universe. This telescope will capture detailed spectroscopic images in infrared, ...

The world’s changed a lot over the last quarter century. In fact, 22 percent of our planet’s livable surface has changed dramatically between the years 1992 and 2015, according to a new study ...

After a six-year effort, researchers have released the first geologic map of the solar system's most volcanically active object, Jupiter's moon Io. The colorful and highly detailed map, published ...