The Arctic Is Melting, and Fast. But Maybe Data Can Save It
Take a Digital Magnifying Glass to an Epic New Map of Pluto
New Maps Make Aftershocks Look Scarier Than the Main Quake
Stanford Is About to Have the Dopest Map Collection on Earth
New Map Highlights the Danger of Man-Made Earthquakes
Gerrymandering Is Even More Infuriating When You Can Actually See It
One geographer used data to create visualizations of every congressional district across the 50 states. Some look truly ridiculous.
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Closing Hollywood Blvd. for The Force Awakens Barely Borked LA Roads
Waze data shows traffic in LA getting only slightly more intolerable during the closure of a major thoroughfare.
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Bombarding San Francisco With Lasers to Create a Perfect 3-D Map
In the wee hours of a morning in December, San Francisco will block off its main street to map it with LiDAR.
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Maps
After two and a half years running the Map Lab blog here at WIRED, it's time for us to move on to new mappy adventures. Here are some of our favorite posts.
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Our Undersea Internet Cables Are Surprisingly Vulnerable
A new book and interactive map charts the history of undersea communications cables—and highlights their vulnerability.
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