Topic: Maps
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How Waze Became the Hottest Map App Around
Why is the Israeli mobile GPS startup drawing acquisition prices as high as Instagram and Tumblr?
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Maps
The Evolution of Moscow's Subway Maps
A collection of the city's subway maps since 1935.
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We're Only Beginning to Understand How Our Brains Make Maps
The smell of your neighborhood pizzeria and the feel of a cracked sidewalk may be more important than researchers previously believed.
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Maps
The New Geography of Teen Mothers
A look at why birth rates vary so dramatically across states.
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The Potential Problem With Personalized Google Maps? We May Never Know What We're Not Seeing
Google is promising a million maps for a million people with its redesign. But can it avoid confining us to customized urban bubbles?
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Swarm Watch
17-Year Brood II Cicadas Emergence Update: They're Nearly Heeeere!
The sex-crazed insects have been busy in the past few weeks, with early sightings in the lands surrounding New York and Washington, D.C.
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Charts
Where Americans Tweet Messages of Hate
Clear and distressing pockets of hate speech.
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Maps
Compare Cities, Streets and Other Shapes With This Cartographic Mixing Machine
Curious to know what the Champs-Elysees might look like in Midtown Manhattan? Forget the square footage and just put it there.
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Maps
Why Historical Maps Still Matter So Much, Even Today
Mega-collector David Rumsey explains how maps are an "archive of information."
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Maps
Delicious Map of the Day: A Pizza Map of All the Pizza Places in Atlanta
Sarah Lawrence, a design student, also created a cake map of the city's bakeries.
