Thomas Yang, an artist and creative director in Singapore, has a real gift for conveying ideas in new ways. He makes many posters that promote bike-riding, such as one in which he printed the Empire State Building with b...

You know how the Mercator Map makes Greenland look huge? Since we used the hand...  ...and look huge? Since we used the handy flat world map so often in school, we are just used to it. Now a...  ...really is in comparison to other countries on the map . Greenland is actually tin...

The Commute Map is an interactive graph that shows the flow of co...  ...ive there or for people who work there. Below the map , you'll see a list of counties where the traffic...

If the most misspelled words by state wasn’t...  ...portionately ask in Google searches. See a larger map at the site. To be clear, the list below does not...

It's spelling bee season! The National Spelling Be...  ...would have trouble with any of the words on this map .Google Trends measured searches for "how to spell...  ...X" -- the X being a mispelled word. It made this map illustrating its findings. You can see a larger v...

National Geographic has a new blog on their scienc...  ...their science salon Phenomena called All Over the Map , dedicated to maps of all kinds. Check out the introductory post and...  ...ctory post and then a look at medieval apocalypse maps . People in 15th-century Europe w...

Bill Rankin at Radical Cartography created a set o...  ...ll Rankin at Radical Cartography created a set of maps that show the growth of slavery in the US between...  ...ated by color. At the site, you can mouseover the map titles to advance to the next map . As you can see by...

(Photo: Nick Webb)Imagine your address as not, say, 750 Bel Air Road, Bel Air, California, but instead block.horse.happy.It could be if the founders of the app what3words are successful. Their system divides the entire w...

In 1955, Esso handed out a map to help tourists find their way to Florida by tur...  ...way to Florida by turning it upside down! On this map , you are always going “up” even thoug...  ...;re headed south. The legend says,Nearly all road maps point North. But we've f...

(Photo: Ben Graves)Ben Graves, 80, stands in front...  ...s)Ben Graves, 80, stands in front of his enormous map of 3,047 counties and county-equivalents in the 4...  ...le, Texas. His tranquility is to make wood county maps of states, which he often donates to local school...  ...stops for his latest project, a...