ntaky:

Pan Am Set - Europe from NY

artmaps:

World Map made from 2000 layers of cloth by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei

Gentrification Storm Warning! Poster of proposed condo development in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

Rectangular subdivisions of the world’s tweets

cartophile:

Amazing artwork by Lekan Jeyifo.

matterinthewrongplace:

Occupy Oakland Map #1

insurgentla:

According to popular imagination, eighteenth century pirates were free-floating bands of criminals, drunks and looters devoid of the era’s christian-capitalist asceticism. Not unlike the recent street rebels of London or Los Angeles in 1992, pirates got a really bad rap. All sorts of…

From “Splendor” by Sebastian Schwinkendorf and Matthias Löwe. Comparison of where landmarks are versus where people take photographs of them from, using photos from Panoramio.