People rely on Google Maps for accurate, up-to-date information about the real world. To help keep this information fresh and accurate, we make contributing ...

NYC Riders is a striking animated map that visualizes the 4.3 million NYC subway trips taken on an average Wednesday in September 2025. The map uses ...

Strado is a new interactive mapping tool designed to provide objective livability scores for 50 major European cities, powered entirely by OpenStreetMap ...

This animated map displays worldwide air temperatures over the past week. It illustrates how temperatures shift daily, warming progressively from east to ...

Over the years there have been many attempts to create interactive maps that help friends discover the best place to meet - somewhere roughly equidistant ...

This morning I was browsing Gary Gale's Vaguely Rude Places map and realised that thanks to my deteriorating eye-sight I could no longer read all the ...

If there were an Interactive Mapping Hall of Fame, Bert Spaan’s Netherlands Building Age map would undoubtedly hold a place of honor. In 2013, Spaan ...

Inspired by Census Dots the interactive racial dot map of the 2020 U.S. Census - the Ancestry Dot Map applies a similar visual language to a different, ...

Local knowledge from people around the world plays a big part in how Google Maps delivers fresh information. As part of our community of over 500 million ...

I’m really bad at BallotGuessr. The object of the game is very simple: you’re shown a Street View image and have to use the visual clues to decide whether ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has published a fascinating visualization exploring the language of rivers in the United States - a map that doesn’t ...

There’s something oddly satisfying about seeing the world reduced to text. The new ASCII OSM Viewer  leans fully into that aesthetic, turning modern web ...