Atlanta Regional Commission - GIS Data & Maps Latanza Adjei Vice President of Sales, Georgia Power Company Latanza Adjei is vice president of sales & marketing for Georgia Power. In this role, she leads the implementation of the company’s top line revenue growth strategy. She is responsible for new product development, product distribution, e-commerce, sales management and energy efficiency. Adjei began her career with Georgia Power as a co-op student in 1994 and joined the company full time in 1998. A native of Atlanta, Adjei earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Atlas for the End of the World Précis On May 20, 1570, Abraham Ortelius, book collector and engraver from Antwerp, published the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Epitome of the Theater of the World), the world's first atlas… Read more Essay: Atlas for the End? Whereas Ortelius marked out modernity's territorial beginnings, this atlas — by focusing on the remaining habitat in the world's 36 biodiversity hotspots — rakes over its remains. This section explains the philosophy and methodology of the atlas… Read more World Maps This section offers 44 thematic world maps related to the general issue of global biodiversity and the epoch of the anthropocene more broadly. Read more Datascapes The Datascapes are 11 visualizations designed to make quantities such as carbon emissions, urban growth and food production which are otherwise hard to comprehend, intelligible… Read more Hotspots Read more Hotspot Cities Read more Facts & Data Read more Essay: Atlas for the Beginning Read more Guide to the Flora & Fauna of the World Read more About the Atlas (FAQ)
GIS Data Depot How We Share the World This interactive graphic shows how the world is divided according to six different socioeconomic variables. The land area of each country represents its share of the worldwide total. Click on a circle to reshape the map For attribution and data sources, scroll to the bottom. I have been having fun experimenting with cartograms lately. For more information about what a cartogram is, have a look at my last two posts, The Housing Value of Every County in the U.S. and A Striking Perspective on New York City Property Values. For this map, I looked at several different socioeconomic variables to include. The GDP-scaled map makes it clear how dominant the U.S. economy is. Government Debt Looking at the world scaled by government debt, the first thing that jumps out is Japan. Population / Births Asia is home to about three fifths of world’s population, and arguably the 10 largest human settlements in the world. Wealth Extreme Wealth Hope you enjoy playing with the map. Attribution Follow Metrocosm
USGS: National Hydrography Dataset Map Projections & What They Say About You Comic by Randall Munroe at XKCD Most people go through life perfectly happy in the knowledge that the real earth looks like it does on a standard Mercator projection map. Cartographers, map nerds and those that have seen this scene from the West Wing know that this is not really the case. Wikipedia sums up why map projections are necessary in the first place: Map projections are necessary for creating maps. The comic above by Randall Munroe at XKCD looks at What your favorite map projections says about you (assuming you have one). For those that don’t, here’s a basic explanation of each type: Mercator Map created by Strebe via Wikimedia What it says about you: You’re not really into maps. Summary: The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. Advantages: Disadvantages: Mercator projection distorts the size of objects as the latitude increases from the Equator to the poles, where the scale becomes infinite.