The Invisible Highways of the Sea
Every large ship broadcasts its position at sea. Aggregate those signals and the ocean fills with trade lanes that outline the continents.
Read moreOcean depth mapped from satellite gravity and 298 million ship soundings – with the Arctic placed at the center of the world.
Read moreA landmark study used Landsat satellites to map the world's forests at 30-meter resolution. We turned that data into a print.
Read moreForests, ocean depths and the places we live – the colorful side of our catalog, and the data behind it.
Read moreTwo hydrologists used 7,376 Landsat images to remeasure the planet's rivers – and found a third more water than anyone expected. That dataset becam...
Read moreA model of global air traffic reconstructed passenger flows between every city over 100,000 people. Drawn as lines, it renders every continent but ...
Read moreSatellites record the Earth's night-time lights at 50-100 meter resolution. Economists read them as a map of wealth; we made them a print.
Read moreMinimalist or colorful? Framed or hung? A quick guide to choosing your map print.
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