The Atlas

What it can do

• 70+ layers of the record: towns of the land by their own names, maroon and Black towns, treaties, forts, captive routes, lynchings, uprisings, music, sports, wars and more
• Every point keeps its source and an evidence label: Record, Pattern, Our lens, Next dig, Disputed
• Seven ways to see the land: night, terrain, satellite, USGS, 3D land, globe and the azimuthal map you can turn and flip
• A timeline you can drag and play: build the record up year by year, from the oldest dates to now
• Ask the Atlas: say what you want to see, by typing or by voice, and the map does it
• Your line: put your family on the map, place by place, and play their lives against the record around them
• Borders on paper: the treaty cessions and the empires' paper claims, moving with the timeline
• The sky at any date: moon, planets, eclipses and the zodiac over the map
• WW9 Radio: the artists and songs on the map, playing as you explore
• Your own colors for any layer or any single point
• Stories that walk the map stop by stop; heat map; links between points; save, share and repost anything
• In English, Spanish, Portuguese and Kreyòl

How it runs

1. Pick your layersTowns of the land, the record, culture, law, the sky and more.
2. Tap a pointIts receipt, its photos, who talked about it on News.
3. Play the yearsWatch it build up from before 1492 to now.

Use it to

• Map a people: 'maroon' finds 190 points across the Americas
• Same ground: put a native town and the Black town on its land side by side
• Find what happened in a year: '1921' finds 89