At Newcastle University in England, a lecturer in architecture has taken to a particularly odd moonlighting job to bolster his pitifully miserly research funding: Making beautiful maps of the internet ...

Visualizing the internet is almost as difficult as ignoring trolls, but that didn’t stop Jay Jason Simons from having a damn good try. The result is this beautiful and insanely detailed map.

Ah, the road trip – a classic rite of passage. No matter if it’s a haphazard first adventure with college buddies or a post-retirement planned escape onto the open road, there are few better and more ...

Is the task of coming up with all those names for regions and cities preventing you from writing that epic fantasy trilogy? Well you're in luck, because there is a Twitter bot that generates thousands ...

This Fun Maps post is guest-written by Margaret McKenna, Head of Data and Analytics at RunKeeper, a free app for running, cycling and other fitness activities Recently the Flowing Data blog released a ...

The other day, a beautiful brick landed on my desk — a thick, fat, illustrated book, called Map: Exploring the World. I used GPS and went about a mile from our studios, to meet one of the men behind ...

Sadly, the Oxford English Dictionary has yet to accept ‘cartophile’ as the official term for a map-lover (though Urban Dictionary has no such qualms). But even if the title lacks the linguistic seal ...