Archive for the ‘Maps’ Category
1870 Census Maps
10 Mar 201054 maps and charts. The level of detail and sophistication is pretty damn impressive for the period. (again from Radical Cartography — can you tell I’m digging through that site? Love it.)
Map Projections
10 Mar 2010A lot of people are familiar with the distortions of the standard Mercator projection, but Radical Cartography has a pretty comprehensive annotated library for browsing if you’re into that sort of thing.
Food Maps
In: Food| Global Economy| Maps
10 Mar 2010Cool maps of farming, via Sociological images and F.A.D (check them out for some discussion), originally from Radical Cartography.
And a cool historical map of global cropland use: 
Google Public Data Explorer
In: Employment| Global Economy| Graphic Design (general)| Infographic (clever)| Maps| Reference| Science
9 Mar 2010
Chile Earthquake Shifted City 10 Feet West
In: Environment/weather| Maps| Science
9 Mar 2010Based on GPS data, the entire city of Concepcion moved 10 feet to the west. Note that in the maps below the arrow scale and map scale are different – it looks a little odd at first, but makes sense.
137 Years of Popular Science
In: Culture| Maps| News Media| Science
9 Mar 2010Popular Science magazine has partnered with Google to make available it’s entire archive. Keyword searches bring up an entire month/issue with your search result highlighted. It looks they have OCR’d every page, making for some cool search results. (via)
For example, a search of “map” brought up this map of US science sites from 1967:
and this first air-map of the north pole from 1931:
“Chart” brings up radiological diagrams from 1950 (among many many others)
Climate Change Keeps Fighting
In: Environment/weather| Maps| Science
8 Mar 2010Climate change scientists have started a fightback against sceptics who argue that the observed changes in the Earth’s climate can largely be explained by natural variability. This comes after the email hacking furore.
A major Met Office review of more than 100 scientific studies tracking the observed changes in the Earth’s climate system finds that it is an "increasingly remote possibility" that human activity is not the main cause of climate change
The Census
In: Interactive| Maps| Politics| Source: WSJ
8 Mar 2010Nice summary from the WSJ: The Summary, the questions, and the results (1880-2000).
Global Recession Map
In: Global Economy| Maps
3 Mar 2010I’d expect better from Moody’s (or maybe not). Most of the analysis is meaningless because it isn’t dated. for example, France’s rating is based on Q209 data? Maybe they’re just not updating it at all anymore?
Stone Age Writing
2 Mar 2010Similar symbols found across the globe raise questions about how writing originated. Some of the findings will appear in a new Smithsonian exhibition. Related New Scientist article.
Spam Spam Spam
2 Mar 2010From the New Scientist.
Six spam WordClouds:
Grocery Stores or Bars?
2 Mar 2010
Economist Videographics
In: Graphic Design (general)| Maps| Politics| Source: Economist
1 Mar 2010The Economist produces quality audio annotated presentations on a number of topics. Here are a few recent ones:
Asia’s Growing Economic Power (a historical perspective) 
China’s territorial Disputes (it’s not just Taiwan) 
Global Fertility 
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