SHODAN LIVES

Calendria, a place where units of time become sovereignties.

“The Kingdom of March, with the Equinoctial Estuary on its western coast, is situated on a separate land mass to the east of Calendria’s main continent. The Republic of Junistan is in the southeast, an archipelago among which are the Circadian Islands. “

Also see the documented process the designer used to make this gorgeous map.

/via strangemaps

A Peek Into Netflix Queues.

A NYT visualization of most-queued films by US zip code. A cool example of what can be done with 100% free data. The queue data is accessible through Netflix’s API and zip code boundaries from the US Census.

Cloud of Atlases.

Try to figure out what data each map displays. I got 3 out of 22 correct (they’re not easy).

The T.

I love maps that look hand-drawn.

Shipwrecks off Sable Island, Nova Scotia.

(dq)

The UK’s first road map.

“This extraordinary map, dating from 1675, details The Road From LONDON to the LANDS END Comencing at the Standard in Cornhill and Extending to Senan in Cornwall. It was made by IOHN OGILBY Esq[ui]r[e] his Ma[jes]ties Cosmographer and covers 308 miles and 3 furlongs (almost 500 km).”

(strangemaps)

Cartagen

Cartagen is a framework for adding rich styles to map data, to produce better cartographics.

You utilize the GSS (geographic style sheet) spec to style map elements from OpenStreetMap data.