Atlantic Cities Maps of the Year

This week Google Maps Mania has had a look at the best Google Maps of the year:

• The Google Maps of the Year - Part One
• The Google Maps of the Year - Part Two  

Atlantic Cities has now posted their favorite maps of the year in 2012's Year in Maps. The round-up includes some great maps and map visualisations, including:

• Bomb Sight - a map of the bombs dropped during the London Blitz
• Surging Seas - climate central's sea level rise map
• Metrophors - a map that changes labels based on geographic metaphors (tweets in the form of x is the y of z)