It’s not exactly surprising but it’s always visually incredible how you can paint the world with data. Like this lovely map visualization. You can see the outline of continents take shape from just ...

Lighthouses of the Northern Seas is a beautiful map of glimmering coastlines at night, a cloudless world where everything but the lighthouses are turned off. It shows 23,217 lights, separated into ...

Created by the mastermind behind ‘Very Useful Maps’, these images are not your regular markers of geographic areas.