"Surface wind data comes from the National Digital Forecast Database. These are near-term forecasts, updated once per hour. So what you're seeing is close to live data."

"Rorschmap is cartographic navel-gazing, a reframing of the map. It will not help you find anything."

"The Connected States of America illustrates the emerging communities based on the social interactions through the use of anonymized mobile phone data."

A Project of Food & Water Watch.

A JavaScript library for image- and vector-tiled maps using SVG.

"Historypin asks the public to dig out, upload and pin their own old photos, as well as the stories behind them, onto the Historypin map. Uniquely, Historypin lets you layer old images onto modern Street View scenes, giving a series of peeks into the past."

More than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008. The map below visualizes those moves.

Get a spatial overview of a community's ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so. from USDA Economic Research Service.

from Weather Underground.

This website aims to present the results of the ongoing research on a cartographic approach to the representation of knowledge in its present configurations. The aim of the research is to extend the cartographic metaphor beyond visual analogy, and to expose it as a narrative model and tool to intervene in complex, heterogeneous, dynamic realities, just like those of human geography.

This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.

Google Earth Outreach gives non-profits and public benefit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to visualize their cause and tell their story in Google Earth & Maps to the hundreds of millions of people who use them.

EveryBlock is a new way to keep track of what’s happening on your block, in your neighborhood and all over your city.

High-quality curation + aggregation.

convention-over-configuration paradigm.

Print maps, draw on them, scan them back in, and help OpenStreetMap improve its coverage of local points of interests and street detail.

the free wiki world map.