Lighthouses of the World Every charted light on a night globe, flashing on its real cycle
Bundle Worth stopping the car for Detours worth pulling over for, plus the maps for planning the rest.
SeasonMap Pick the month and the kind of trip, and it shows its work down to the weather station
Odyssey Explorer Seventeen landfalls, every Greek word openable, and a running count of the men who never got home
Edward Quin's Historical Atlas Twenty-one plates on which everything not yet discovered is engraved as black cloud, lifting one period at a time
Isopolis All 121 square kilometres of San Francisco, hand-checked quadrant by quadrant
Agloe, New York A town invented as a copyright trap, which then opened for business
David Rumsey Map Collection 149,000 historical maps online, free, and searchable down to the text engraved on them
Finds
- Dovepass Pick a takeoff and landing point in San Francisco and get a go or no-go for your drone
- Unfenced Land for sale, measured against the public land it borders
- Bay Area Traffic Trends What an average Tuesday at 8 am looks like on the 101
- Mapsnap A century-old Sanborn insurance map, snapped onto today's street grid
- Lighthouses of the World Every charted light on a night globe, flashing on its real cycle
- Craig Mod's Walks Every long walk he's taken, mapped, logged and linked to what came of it
- Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum Mumbai's oldest museum keeps a stone elephant from Elephanta Island and maps of the city's seven original islands
- Roads About a Theme 1,068 themes mapped across America's street names, and counting
- LiveWorld Spin the globe, land in somebody's live camera, and talk to whoever else is watching
- SeasonMap Pick the month, and it tells you where the weather is actually worth it
- NYC Tree Map 892,947 trees, each one its own record you can look up
- Old Map vs New Map Mercator and Equal Earth side by side, panning together, with countries you can drag between them
- The Map of Steam 80,000 Steam games arranged by design mechanics rather than genre
- Reactor Atlas Drag the year and watch the fleet stop growing, twice
- Buslens Which buses stop near this spot, and where do they go
- Isometric San Francisco The city redrawn tile by tile as one pixel painting
- ShadeMap Drag the time slider and watch the shadows move
- Odyssey Explorer Tap any Greek word and the ten-year voyage explains itself
- draw.city Draw a shape on the map; find out how many people you just enclosed
- All Roads Lead Home An atlas of every street you have ever walked — and the ones you never have
- Where's My Muni? Every Muni, BART and Caltrain vehicle in San Francisco on one map
- Yesterdays of Richmond Historical photos pinned to their exact spot on a live Richmond map
- Tectonic Globe Drag your city across a billion years of plate motion
- Edward Quin's Historical Atlas World history drawn as retreating storm clouds
- Eclipse Times 2026 Which floor of your building can actually see the August 12 eclipse
- The Evolution of Manhattan, 1600–2026 Four centuries of an island in a few minutes
- NearbyWiki Everything Wikipedia knows about where you're standing
- Isopolis San Francisco redrawn tile by tile, and you can post a card from it
- Agloe, New York A town invented as a copyright trap, which then opened for business
- CheapFoodMap A map of meals under $10, with the prices actually checked
- Golf Course Browser Every US golf course on one map, filterable
- Cartopolis Live OpenStreetMap data rendered exactly like a 1999 MapQuest GIF
- Ex Situ A map that draws a line from where each artifact was taken to where it sits now
- Detourmap 71,763 curious places, filterable by how obscure they are
- David Rumsey Map Collection 140,000 historical maps, free and searchable by what's etched on them
- Underground Paris Map Pocket-folding guide to Paris catacombs and hidden subterranean spaces
- Audio Spaces A collaborative global map of location-tagged sound recordings
- US Regional Map by Reddit Vote What 'the Midwest' means, settled by crowdsourced poll
- Land Lines Draw a line; Google Maps finds the matching ridge, river, or coastline