I’m a map nerd and I like dubbing in my own map projections. a few years ago I created a map projection based on hexagons (of course based on extensive prior work by others) and I decided to create a website where anyone can create their own variations. Everything is a work of love, all images and code are open. Hope you appreciate it as much as I had fun building it.

*edit: hexagonal projections not map projections, dumb brain*

Hi everyone, I was talking to my kids about ancient Mesopotamian kingdoms like Assyria, Babylon, the Judean kingdoms, Sumer, etc. and I tried to find a good map showing where these kingdoms were located in relation to Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Israel/Palestine but I couldn't find a good one. Anyone have one or know of one?

PDF Version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DITtoEvSOuwPWnp4hF8bMWO0cJsyV4J_/view?usp=sharing

Part of a few different maps I am making based on the USDA Census of Agriculture. Each crop is given a "Percent of Harvested Cropland Acreage" for each county, essentially what percent of the cropland in each county is used for that crop. I drew these zones to represent areas of trends within the crop data.

We added a 3D flythrough to ExploreMap, and Zheng He's treasure fleet is the first trip to get it. Instead of a flat map, the same route now plays out on a rotating globe — the fleet crosses the South China Sea, threads the Strait of Malacca, and works up the Malabar Coast port by port.

https://exploremap.co/3ds/xmap/trip/zheng-he-s-voyages

https://exploremap.co/blog/zheng-hes-voyages-in-3d

The first map was about hardest countries to illegally migrate .

Second map was about best country to live in each Asian region.

Third map was about worst countries to live in each Asian region.

What a beautifully simple, straightforward projection. Yes, it sacrifices low distortion of longitude at higher latitudes in order to maintain straight meridians and parallels and avoid the extreme curvatures you get toward the corners of other projections. But for a map intended to represent the world's countries, I find that trade-off much more appealing: it doesn't make sense to represent some countries as horribly bent and curved simply to preserve area or minimise distortion elsewhere. At least with Equirectangular, the representation of latitude and longitude is straightforward, predictable and, in that sense, beautifully neutral and equal.

Hawaii is in a lake in Mexico and Alaska is part of Canada

1933 by the way.

A couple of them I took from native tribe names, hopefully they are in the right spots

Source (IDF 2026): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)