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GeographyIQ. Different Maps. The internet has led to a renaissance in mapmaking, with thousands of interactive, illustrated, informational, or just plain silly maps being published on a daily basis. We’ve done a number of other pieces on some of the web’s interesting and weird maps, but there’s thousands more out there, and it can be hard to keep up. So here’s another installment, with 36 new maps we haven’t posted before. 1. Wind map of America Check out the live map of America’s winds at Hint.fm. 2. These are the lands Europeans actually first discovered — as in there weren’t already millions of people there. 3.

This map was fairly surprising to me — I certainly wouldn’t have guessed that Russia was more tolerant than France, and I’m happy to see the US is in the most tolerant group. 4. You know, with the exception of the giant swaths of Bud Light states, I’m not too ashamed of this map. 5. 6. 7. Two questions: 1) Who took the time to make this map? 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Geographic.org. Real-time Earthquake Map. Geologic Time.

Geology. World Statometer. Country Comparisons. Capitals of Every Country. WorldLifeExpectancyMap. World Processor. Geosense Game.