Bloomberg L.P.

MapLab: The Historical Significance of Homemade Maps

Today we’re going to do something a little bit different. Laura’s been busy talking about the new Bloomberg CityLab book she edited, The Quarantine Atlas, a collection of readers’ homemade maps ...
USA Today

From tracking COVID-19 testing sites to child care for first responders, Google's self-made maps get huge boost during crisis

Google's "MyMaps," which offers self-generated directions, has been rediscovered in a big way during the COVID-19 crisis. A unit of Google's popular Maps program since 2007, MyMaps allows users to ...
Slate

“She Does a Better Job Than Map Quest!’

Last month, I asked Slate readers to send me their hand-drawn maps. The request was part of my series on signs, the tools that professionals use to orient us and direct us from point A to point B. But ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Pandemic Mapping Project Shows How Covid-19 Transformed Our Worlds

Hundreds of homemade maps reveal how people from around the globe found their ways through crisis Emily Erdos, Harvard, Massachusetts, United States A map is supposed to symbolize travel, discovery, ...
Bloomberg L.P.

MapLab: How a Comic Artist Draws the Pandemic

When CityLab first asked readers for homemade maps of how Covid was turning your lives upside down, it was during the first wave of cases in most parts of the world. Palpable among the hundreds of ...