Robby Deming

The world watched as Artemis II visited the Moon and brought excitement and hope back to Earth. Explore a timeline of humanity's lunar ambitions in this work by Anna Diederichs: maps.com/lunar-missions…

As printing and digital technologies have advanced, cartographers now have an overwhelming amount of color options at their disposal. But that power comes with responsibility. Learn more about color in cartography from @Esri's Andy Skinner: maps.com/esri-cartograp…

Hurricane Melissa battered the Caribbean. It also set records along the way. Learn more about the Caribbean Sea's role in forming the most powerful tropical cyclone of 2025, and the strongest ever to make landfall in Jamaica: maps.com/hurricane-meli…

Wildfires have made headlines and devastated California. Experts say the fire season is starting earlier, lasting longer, and becoming even more destructive. Seven of the worst wildfires in California have happened since 2015. We mapped the top 10 most destructive wildfires in California history. View the full list at: maps.com/california-wil…

Piracy still happens in the modern world. The US Office of Naval Intelligence has tracked more than 8,000 piracy events since 2000. See the full record and map at: maps.com/animated-pirac…

On a technical level, maps are typically drawn from points, lines, and polygons. Abu Dembélé took things even further and drew this map of Salt Lake City from just one line. maps.com/one-line-map-o…

Where's the best place to see the northern lights? Harry Kuril used maps to find out. A great combination of scientific data analysis and gorgeous cartography: maps.com/using-maps-pin…

See the birthplace of every player selected in the first round of the NBA draft between 1989 and 2024: maps.com/nba-draft-map-…

If you like maps and puzzles, Ahmad Barclay has a challenge for you! Choose any place on Earth and view a scrambled map. Then—if you can—put back it together. maps.com/interactive-ma…

You've heard the story: John Snow used a map to discover how cholera spread throughout Victorian London. What you've heard is probably wrong. Learn more in 'Snow Mistake: Correcting Myths in the Mapping of Cholera' maps.com/snow-mistake-c…

In this Back to The Map, we caught up with Andrew Wallace of OC Parks to learn more about mapping the wilderness parks of Orange County, California. maps.com/andrew-wallace…

@geo_spatialist I saw these maps on Reddit and we love them. Would you consider submitting them to Maps.com for a potential article? Here's the submission portal: maps.com/submit-map/ Here are some submitted maps that we've featured on the site: maps.com/tag/submitted-…

And here’s a cloudless one of Yellowstone.

Yellowstone National Park, WY - MT - ID  –  USGS – 1961 3D Render #Yellowstone #YellowstoneNationalPark #Wyoming #Montana #Idaho #ArcGISPro #b3d

Cartographer extraordinaire Lauren Tierney joined @Esri after making phenomenal maps for the @washingtonpost newsroom. See some of her work on snow maps, and even learn how to do it: maps.com/neon-snow-dept…

Researchers from @dtutweet and @worldbank have created the Global Wind Atlas. @Esri uses this data to show average wind speeds and potential for energy production across the planet. maps.com/wind-maps-high…

Data visualization designer @mohamad_waked shares this gorgeous map of global population dynamics. The map, which is both animated and interactive, uses proportional circles to show population size and change. maps.com/global-populat…

Extreme heat and drought have dominated headlines in recent years. But you may be surprised to know that global rainfall totals are growing over time. This map from @NASAViz shows the monthly average precipitation for the period 2001-2022: maps.com/global-rain-ma…

For more than a century, public universities offered an affordable path to higher education in the US. In the last 20 years, that path has grown more expensive. Our latest map shows which public universities have become the most expensive. maps.com/public-college…

2024 was the hottest year in nearly 175 years of modern record keeping. The world is warming. But it is not doing so equally, everywhere. This animation from @NASAViz shows how temperatures are changing with latitude. Higher latitudes, like the Arctic, are outpacing the global average. Learn more: maps.com/historical-tem…

The US government tracks meteors entering Earth's atmosphere. Most are remarkably small. But the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013 was 30x more powerful than the atomic bomb detonated in Hiroshima in 1945. Explore more than 1,000 fireballs in our latest map: maps.com/mapping-meteor…

Did you know a whale shark will swim a distance that exceeds the circumference of Earth in their lifetimes? This was a fun one to work on.