Category: Blogosphere
*That's the Amazon rainforest - not Amazon.com! Check out this interview from MAKE with Google's Rebecca Moore, who helped an Amazon chief use Google Earth to fight illegal logging....
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Category: Biology
As a fan of maps, typography, and anatomy, I think this is a pretty sweet mashup. From orkposters.com via Street Anatomy....
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Category: Artists & Art
Another fabulously weird map, from the great blog Strange Maps. This one is entitled "The Man of Commerce" and dates to 1889. According to the American Geographical Society Library, The highly detailed 31" x 50" map/chart conflates human anatomy...
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Category: Destinations
We all know some cities "feel" smaller than others. But this set of subway maps presented at the same scale makes the differences obvious. Just for fun, I made this image layering four of maps from major world cities in...
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Category: Blogosphere
Some Kansas State University geographers have come up with some interesting maps of the US that purport to show the national distribution of the seven deadly sins. Obviously they can't gauge "sinfulness" directly, so they're using proxy data -...
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