Inglehart-Wenzel Values_Map. Moby Dick Map. Why do so many people love making maps? - bookforum.com / omnivore. Follow us omnivore Why do so many people love making maps?
Aug 30 2013 3:00PM From Wired, Betsy Mason and Greg Miller introduce the Map Lab: A quest to find, explore, and make maps; meet Anthony Robinson, the man who wants to teach the world to make maps; and why do so many people love making maps? 2011 Language Mapper Tool - U.S Census Bureau. ATLASES: Poetics, Politics and Performance - An online Exhibition from Special Collections and School of Geographical Sciences. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Post-war_moral_new_world_order.jpg (3972×2832) Global Incident Map - Outbreaks. Wanderlust: GOOD traces the most famous trips in history.
The 15 Maps That Explain The World In 2012. Jewish Population by County (The Economist) Cartography: The true true size of Africa. LAST month Kai Krause, a computer-graphics guru, caused a stir with a map entitled "The True Size of Africa", which showed the outlines of other countries crammed into the outline of the African continent.
His aim was to make "a small contribution in the fight against rampant Immappancy"—in particular, the fact that most people do not realise how much the ubiquitous Mercator projection distorts the relative sizes of countries. A sphere cannot be represented on a flat plane without distortion, which means all map projections distort in one way or another. True size of Africa. True-size-of-africa.jpg 1241×878 pixels. Colonialists' Map of Tribes of Africa. MapofEmergingUSMegaregions.png 1,200×800 pixels. Welcome to the USGS - U.S. Geological Survey.
Are the Richest Americans Also the Best Educated? Education articles blog on schools in Florida & Tampa Bay: the Gradebook. Electoral college reform (fifty states with equal population) – fake is the new real. The electoral college is a time-honored, logical system for picking the chief executive of the United States.
However, the American body politic has also grown accustomed to paying close attention to the popular vote. This is only rarely a problem, since the electoral college and the popular vote have only disagreed three times in 200 years. However, it's obvious that reforms are needed. Lives on the Line. Vaccine-Preventable Outbreaks. This interactive map visually plots global outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, rubella, and other diseases that are easily preventable by inexpensive and effective vaccines.
Red triangles indicate attacks on vaccinators and healthcare workers, as well as announcements from both governments and non-state actors that have had an impact—either positive or negative—on the successful implementation of vaccination programs. The Global Health Program at the Council on Foreign Relations has been tracking reports by news media, governments, and the global health community on these outbreaks since the fall of 2008. This project aims to promote awareness of a global health problem that is easily preventable, and examine the factors that threaten the success of eradicating preventable illnesses such as polio. Learn more about Global Health. Income inequality, as seen from space. Last week, I wrote about how urban trees—or the lack thereof—can reveal income inequality.
After writing that article, I was curious, could I actually see income inequality from space? If the world’s population lived like… Shortly after I started Per Square Mile, I produced an infographic that showed how big a city would have to be to house the world’s 7 billion people.
There was a wrinkle, though—the city’s limits changed drastically depending on which real city it was modeled after. If we all lived like New Yorkers, for example, 7 billion people could fit into Texas. If we lived like Houstonians, though, we’d occupy much of the conterminous United States. Balloon Mapping From the Ground Up: Public Lab's Field Techniques. Public Lab’s balloon- and kite-based mapping approach is a new way to take aerial images from the ground.
However, there are some considerations and things that can be learned from a few map stories. Each map project has distinct characteristics in its time, place, and local atmospheric conditions. Here are several examples of how those factors make each balloon and kite map unique. Maps of all kinds. New York Public Library Puts 20,000 Hi-Res Maps Online & Makes Them Free to Download and Use. When I was a kid, my father brought home from I know not where an enormous collection of National Geographic magazines spanning the years 1917 to 1985.
Mapoteca. Argentina Virtual. Census Maps Using Word Frequency From 19 Million Dating Website Profiles. Chicago area Each decade the United States government embarks on a census of its entire population in order to update population numbers and demographic information that aids in the allocation of Congressional seats, electoral votes, and government program funding.
But as helpful and interesting as this data is, what does it really tell us about who we are? How We Use Maps and Globes: An Illustrated Guide from 1968. By Maria Popova A charming reminder of how far we’ve come — and what we’ve given up along the way.
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