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Feast your eyes on this stunning map of the Lower Mississippi's evolving floodplains, lifted from cartographer Harold Fisk's 1944 report, Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River. More »
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This awesome map shows the universe around us in the grandest scale possible, with each tiny dot representing a different galaxy. Thanks to this cosmic atlas, you'll never again mix up the Corona Borealis Supercluster with the Large Magellanic Cloud. More »
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Say you're on Mustafar and need to swing by Endor to pick up an illicit shipment of Ewok chitterlings. Where do you go? This map from Star Wars: The Essential Atlas will show the way. [Entertainment Weekly, thanks Ryernl!] More »
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The most massive 3D map of the night sky has been released. It contains a trillion pixels and would require 500,000 high-definition TVs to view in its entirety. These images represent just the tiniest fraction of the full map. More »
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As you may have noticed, we're obsessed with the Kowloon Walled City. Prior to the labyrinthine city's demolition, a Japanese research team drew up this huge cross-section map. It's in Japanese, but it's nonetheless astounding. [Deconcrete via William Gibson] More »
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Vincenzo Cosenza has partitioned the planet according to nations' preferred social networks, and you can read more about these global trends at his site. Facebook's making inroads in Mongolia! [Spotted on Next Nature] More »
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To demonstrate the havoc rising sea levels would wreak on London, Practical Action has released this tube map from the year 2100. A four-meter rise in water levels on the Thames Flood Plain would result in a soggy commute indeed. More »
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Should you ever find yourself magically transported into a Spider-Man comic, it pays to know where things are should Electro appropriate your wallet. That's why you should study these various maps of Spider-Man's stomping grounds. Check out that bachelor pad! More »
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These diagrams from the March 2, 1942 issue of Life detailed the Nazi invasion of America shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Check out such alternate reality battles like the bombing of Detroit and invasion of Norfolk, Virginia. More »
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Want to see a map of the continent of Westeros from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire? Of course you do. Also, see how Martin's fictional continent stacks up with Europe. More »
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It's Election Day in America. Before you vote, evaluate your candidate using this unassailable metric: will this politician make the world more or less like Jack Kirby's technocratic cetacean metroplex from Kamandi? The truth will set you free. More »
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One thing everyone should aspire to own is a 70-ton topographical map of the Golden State the length of two football fields. It can be yours for $500,000. More »
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In the early 1900s, Dr. T. Kenard Thomson proposed increasing NYC's property value by creating a land bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn, building an island off the Jersey shore, and constructing a "New Manhattan" directly below the old one. More »
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Need to find your way around Thor's Asgard or Hercules' Olympus? These vintage maps from Marvel comic books will help you find your way from the Rainbow Bridge to the Temple of the Promethean Flame. More »
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Herb Trimpe's cutaway map from 1982's G.I. Joe #4 illustrated The Pit in ridiculous detail. My favorite embellishment is the fact that the hologram room receives no explanation, but the motor pool and its "lube jobs" get an entire paragraph. More »
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If the Earth stopped spinning, the oceans would divide, a megacontinent would emerge at the equator, one day would last one year, and our now-ellipsoid planet would become spherical. But we can finally build that freeway from Jakarta to Houston! More »
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August 9 is the 65th anniversary of the day the US dropped "Fat Man" over Nagasaki. The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Archive has created a Google Earth map that documents where survivors were in relation to the blast. More »
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This 1935 map from Fortune magazine depicts "The Great Invasion of 19??," a three-pronged invasion from Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Note the 25,000 Japanese saboteurs in California and the distinction of an Anglo-Japanese alliance as the most dangerous. More »
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Thanks to the Mars Odyssey probe and 21,000 high-resolutions photographs it took of the planet's surface, we now have the best map ever made of Mars - and you can check it out online right now! More »
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NASA has created a global snapshot of the world's forests using satellites and LIDAR, a laser technology that measures the height of forest canopy using pulses of light. This map took seven years and 250 million pulses to create. More »
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Find out which parts of the world to visit if you want to walk away with diamonds on the soles of your shoes. More »
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Massachusetts' Bridgewater Triangle is ground zero for all manner of pseudoscientific phenomena, such as ghost hitchhikers, black helicopters, and Indian burial grounds. In short, the area is the entire oeuvre of Stephen King in the wrong state. [Boston via Cryptomundo] More »
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The Cato Institute, a Libertarian think-tank, has created a detailed map of "botched" paramilitary raids by government entities from 1985-2008. No matter your political leanings, it makes for an intriguing (albeit totally depressing) read. [The Cato Institute via Fast Company] More »
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This map breaks down the overall touristyness of the globe by gauging the concentration of Panoramio photos. Big surprise - Panoramio users don't holiday in Siberia. [bluemoon.ee via Information is Beautiful] More »
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Congratulations! You're the proud new owner of a TARDIS! But how do you find your way around the blasted thing? This handy map will aid you in negotiating its shifting layout. If you become lost, "scream until help arrives!" More »
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In his book Lost States, Michael Trinklein maps out the never-was states of Transylvania, Nickajack, and Jefferson. Check out his bizarro imaginary cartography. More »
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It isn't easy to get your bearings in the world of Lost. That's where cartography comes in. Here's a sampling of the best maps of Lost's island, both from the show and from fans. More »
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If you're planning a trip to Mercury, you'll need the first map ever released of the solar system's innermost planet, a mosaic of photos from the Mercury missions. More »
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Have trouble keeping track of the nearly 200 past and current missions to explore our solar system and beyond? National Geographic's elegant infographic displays 50 years of space exploration in a colorful map of our planetary neighbors. More »
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Peter Minton is a California teacher who loves to make vector maps in his spare time. His favorite places to map are islands and coastlines, and so when the Cassini-Huygens probe sent back images from Saturn's moon Titan he was happy to discover the geographical features he loves most. There, on the pole of Titan, was a sea full of islands. An unnamed methane sea, but still mappable using vectoring software. This is the map he created, with longitude and latitude lines. More »
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This is part of the first 3D map of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Over 200 thousand objects are included in the map, which was made up of images from a telescope in the Canary Islands that took hydrogen emission-sensitive pictures of the night sky. The result is that the brighter areas show "hotter" spots where stars are being born. Image via Institute of Astronomy/University of Cambridge. Milky Way Mapped in 3D [Discover News] More »
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An international team of scientists has crunched the numbers and predicted which areas of the world will be hit hardest by the effects of climate change. They created this map of the "socioclimatic" future of the world. The reddest areas, which include China, India, and the United States, are in the most danger because they suffer from a deadly combination of social problems and lax policies on toxic emissions (it's no coincidence that all three countries are not signatories to the Kyoto Treaty). Check out the stats for yourself. [Eurekalert] Image by Pamela Burroff-Murr/Diffenbaugh et al./Dan Annarino/NOAA. More »
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Image by Sam Brown [Bioephemera] More »
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