Pacific Islands ~ Mapping Oceanic Territories...

Cultural Map ~ World Values Survey Infographic

The World Values Survey measures traditional values versus secular-rational values plotted against survival values versus self-expression values:

• Traditional v. Secular values ~ On the importance of religion, parental ties, authority, and traditional family values; 
• Survival v. Self-expression values ~ On the importance of economic and physical security, ethnocentric outlook and low levels of trust and tolerance. 

Here's 2008 visualization from MapPorn...

Future Climate ~ Köppen-Geiger A1FI Scenario...

Future A1FI Köppen-Geiger climate scenario...

Prelude Progress ~ Shell's FLNG Project Update!

gCaptain spots Shell's latest construction porn -- a progress video on the Prelude FLNG and related facilities!

"The 600,000 tonnes Prelude FLNG facility, the largest offshore facility ever constructed, is nearing completion at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. Once completed, the floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility will be moored off Western Australia for a period of 20 to 25 years where it will be used to chill natural gas produced at the Prelude field to –162°C (-260°F), shrinking its volume by 600 times so it can be exported to customers in Asia. Once operational, the Prelude FLNG facility will produce at least 5.3 million tonnes (mtpa) per annum of liquids: 3.6 mtpa of LNG, 1.3 mtpa of condensate (equivalent to 35,000 bbl/d) and 0.4 mtpa of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)."

Timelapse Shipbuild ~ Mitsubishi Fabs AIDAprima

Check out this timelapse shipbuild video by Max Moos from MK Timelapse GmbH of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries assembling the AIDAprima cruise liner!

Systems of Government ~ Worldmap of Schemes

Some global map porn spotlighting Systems of Government...

Population Cartogram ~ Proportionate Worldmap!

This Population Cartogram of the World is a cool way to visualize geo-spatially how many people live where...

Prelude Progress ~ Epic Ship Construction Porn!

gCaptain spotlights my favorite current gigaproject, the Shell Prelude! Here's earlier intro to Prelude FLNG.

Globular Perspective ~ Alt View of South America!

MapPorn spots South America in globular perspective, published as a foldout supplement from the December 1937 issue of Fortune magazine!  Be sure to click through to the full-size, hi-res map!

Population Map ~ Latitude and Longitude Sorted!

Evening Raga maps World Population by Latitude and Longitude!

Exaggerated Relief ~ Map of Western US & Mex

MapPorn spots very cool Exaggerated Relief Map of Western US and Mexico made by Anton Balazh (with NASA help;-) sourced from UnofficialNetworks!

Macondo Blowout ~ Deepwater Disaster Anime

gCaptain spots the CSB's draft investigation report video anime of BP's Macondo well blowout and Deepwater Horizon disaster...

"The blowout preventer (BOP) that was intended to shut off the flow of high-pressure oil and gas from the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico during the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on April 20, 2010, failed to seal the well because drill pipe buckled for reasons the offshore drilling industry remains largely unaware of, according to a new two-volume draft investigation report released on June 5, 2014, by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB)."

Air Traffic ~ Worldwide Flights Timelapse Map...

ChartPorn spots Air Traffic Worldwide timelapse map...

World Population Density ~ People per Square Km

Lovely hi-res worldmap of people per square kilometer by daysleeperrr posted on Reddit MapPorn. The comments are also illustrative. And author's note...

"Took about four hours, with notepad to write the map generator script and photoshop for the legend. I downloaded an .asc (ascii) file [with pop density, about] 30 million records. Converted the huge 200 MB file to a smaller file with this php script in which 30 catogories were used instead of exact numbers. [...] Convert the file to an image. For that I used the PHP GD Library [and script. And finally] Added the legend and some color using photoshop. It's the first time I tried creating a map using programming language only, instead of ArcGIS or tools like that. I was surprised how little lines of code were needed in order to generate such a map. If someone has suggestions for improvement let me know ;-)"

World Colonization ~ Timelapse Map 1492-2008

Reddit MapPorn offers up simple timelapse mapscape of World Colonization from 1492-2008... Doesn't include adequate coverage of Chinese empires or Mongol or any of the Native American or African, alas.

Economic Freedom ~ Heritage's 2014 Index Map

Reddit MapPorn spots Heritage's Economic Freedom 2014 map...

Lego Sorter ~ BrickIt's Robomation for Dynaway

JK at MITERS shares Lego porn, the Sorting Plant...

Breweries of Europe ~ Sources of Godly Nectar!

MapPorn spotlights the Breweries of Europe!

Population Animap ~ Ballooning World Cartogram

University of Sheffield's Benjamin Hennig shares this World Population Animation...

How Big is Amsterdam? ~ Interactographic Map

Nice interactive map comparing metropolitan Amsterdam to other geographies. Here's vs Boston... And here vs Silicon Valley centered on Stanford... Vs Cape Town... Vs Doha... Vs Aqaba+Eilat... Vs Mumbai... Thanks to MapPorn for spotting.