The New York City Subway Map as You’ve Never Seen It Before - The New York Times

The design history of the New York subway map.

The New York City Subway Map as You’ve Never Seen It Before - The New York Times

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Eleanor Lutz - An Orbit Map of the Solar System

A lovely visualisation of asteroids in our solar system.

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Mapping a World of Cities

A timeline of city maps, from 1524 to 1930.

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Spatial Awareness

Robin Hawkes has made a lovely website to go with his newsletter all about maps and spatial goodies.

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getlon.lat

80 geocoding service plans to choose from.

I’m going to squirrel this one away for later—I’ve had to switch geocoding providers in the past, so I have a feeling that this could come in handy.

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Mapping the Moon

A look at all the factors that went into choosing the Apollo landing sites, including this gem:

Famous amateur astronomer, Sir Patrick Moore, also produced a hand drawn map of the moon from his own observations using his homemade telescope at his home in Selsey, Sussex. These detailed pen and ink maps of the Moon’s surface were used by NASA as part of their preparations for the moon landing.

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