Waze is quietly getting a subtle map color refresh, only a few months after Google released a similar makeover for Google Maps. The new map colors, which make it easier to distinguish the highlighted ...

When David Heasty and Stefanie Weigler moved to New York in the early 2000s, both graphic designers found themselves less than enthused by the city’s subway map. “We were shocked,” says Heasty, who ...

Some cultural debates are lodged into our collective consciousness: Beatles versus Stones, “Star Trek” versus “Star Wars,” Coca-Cola versus Pepsi. For New York City transit buffs, it's about which ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Color maps in scientific papers are too colorful, according to data scientists. These figures, ...

With so much going on in our city's subway system, even the most New York New Yorker may not know that the color tiles on the wall mean something. Or at least, they ...

See how to use the R leaflet package to color-code a map by winner, loser, and margin of victory. If you’re mapping election results of, say, the US presidential election by state, it can make sense ...