Maps

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission—the Bay Area's regional transportation planning agency—recently did fans of data and mapping a huge favor and launched a website called Vital Signs.

February 7, 2015 - LA.Streetsblog

New research provides sorely needed tools for illustrating the neighborhoods that suffer a lack of transportation options to access jobs and opportunity.

February 7, 2015 - Next City

What time did you leave for work this morning? What time should you have left for work this morning?

February 5, 2015 - FlowingData

Mapping the nation's 600,000 bridges reveals a remarkably fine-grained map of…the nation.

February 3, 2015 - The Washington Post - Wonkblog

A new interactive mapping tool, created by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, makes the case for a renewed, regional focus on the infrastructure that moves the region.

February 2, 2015 - Next City

A new map from Mapbox visualizes traffic on all roads eligible for highway safety funds by combining data available through the Highway Performance Monitoring System on OpenStreetMap.

January 29, 2015 - MapBox

Cities change. The people living in cities change. A new online tool from the Urban Institute allows users to forecast demographic trends as far out at 2030.

January 26, 2015 - CityLab

California has commenced new water use reporting requirements, which the Pacific Institute has compiled into an interactive map and database to provide accessible evidence about where the state's water goes.

January 23, 2015 - Pacific Institute

If you're into place names and the history of presidential politics, we have just the map for you.

January 23, 2015 - The Atlantic

What better way to wind down from a long week thinking about cities and maps and transportation than by taking a quiz to show off your knowledge of cities and maps and transportation?

January 16, 2015 - The Washington Post

A new web-based tool by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Esri allows users to "explore the ecological tapestry of the world."

January 14, 2015 - ASLA The Dirt

Patrick Sisson reports on the fruits of a 2013 effort by the city of Chicago to codify transit oriented development.

January 8, 2015 - Curbed Chicago

Do you have a need for speed? Or at least a need to know the speed limit anywhere in the world? Greater Greater Washington has just the map for you.

December 13, 2014 - Greater Greater Washington

An article by Ben Campkin, Marina Mogilevich, and Rebecca Ross examines how images shape ideas about cities—from "John Snow’s Cholera map to Le Corbusier's plan for a contemporary city and Moose's 'clean graffiti.'"

December 3, 2014 - Guardian Cities

Artist-scientist Stephen Von Worley is taking on a new project— mapping the world's city streets based on a complex set of algorithms and psychedelic colors.

November 7, 2014 - Urbanful

Interested in tracing the development of everything from urban bike lanes to national parks to rocket test sites?

October 31, 2014 - CityLab

Are smartphones supplementing the capacity of humans to think spatially, such that future generations might lose fundamental cognitive abilities?

September 9, 2014 - CityLab

Matthew Yglesias lets us peek behind the curtain of those viral maps that reveal difference between states. Hiding behind these maps is a dirty little secret about how little variation there is in America.

August 28, 2014 - Vox

Exactly how does a student take on an open data political stance and transform it into "the largest crowd-sourced mapping project on the internet"?

August 16, 2014 - TechCrunch

As part of the Vision Zero initiative for traffic safety, the city has hosted a map system that allowed citizens to report safety issues encountered on the street. With the reporting period now over, you can still peruse the findings of the exercise.

August 5, 2014 - StreetsBlog NYC