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It was just a wild off-the-cuff estimate for the number of people that may appreciate this odd (but interesting, to me anyways) mix of statistics and alternative history, but I would be happy to be proved wrong.
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I had to buy that, too. It was less than 13 pounds, which (I think) is less than $20. It was just too cool and too cheap not to have.
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I am a map lover as well. I spent way too long last night looking at all the old posts on that blog.
In one of my classrooms, there's a National Geographic pull-out map of the Peoples of Southeast Asia. Only, it just barely pre-dates the Vietnam war, and they call the Hmongs Meo, which is a corruption of their name in Chinese - Miao. I sit in the corner every day so I can read that map instead of listening to the intolerable lecture.
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quote:travel time to the nearest major city; ie one with a population of over 50thousand.
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Well, that works for me, I'm a small-town guy. I guess other people might think 50,000 is pretty small. The map is pretty low-resolution, so I can't examine it's accuracy for my area. On the whole, I did enjoy this map, though.
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Sorry, didn't occur to me to search for the source. Click on this high resolution version after it fully downloads.
Explanations about the travel time map. You can get to the high resolution version by clicking on the map at the top of the page, then clicking again to expand. The designated downloads are much less detailed than the high resolution version.
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Regarding the MIJ Usa map: I can understand that Harry ("Nukem") Truman is on Mt. Rushmore, but why is Seattle marked by three Siamese cats?
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Annie, what is "the world in inverse"? Are large countries small, or small countries large? Or are the oceans land, and vice-versa? Do you have a graphic you could post somewhere?
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There's a lot of really great data visualization blogs out there. Two of my favorites are Flowing Data and Chart Porn.
A couple of my favorite recent maps are the MickeyD Map, which maps out all of the McDonald's in the contiguous US (guess the greatest distance you can be from one), and the Human Transportation Map which shows you how close every point on the globe is to a mid-sized city in actual transportation time, not geographical distance.
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New version of the GreatCircle Map which will let you see and know the shortest distance between two points on Earth. As well as airport codes, eg mmk-bos, lis-cay, you can also use latitude&longitude coordinates of your departure and arrival points, eg 7.9n59w-30.78n97.86w, 7.9n97.86w-30.78n59w.
I used the first set of coordinates to look at the area without jet contrails from NorthernEuropean flights due to Iceland's volcano eruption...which hasta have a major effect on the weather. And the second to make a block view of the entire Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean region for the upcoming hurricane season.
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That's pretty cool. I like how there are Google Information Gathering Outposts spread all over the place.
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GREATTornado Map of the USA -- the wider the line, the stronger the tornado. Straight lines between start and end points only.
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Video of European political map as it has changed from 1000 A.D. to present. From OSC's recent "review everything" column. Fascinating how we often think of countries as having established "permanent" borders, but in reality they're constantly in flux. Makes you think about humanity's relationship to one another.
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p.s. this may be my all-time favorite Hatrack thread, and I'm just now discovering it. I knew I was a geek, but now it's more certain.
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A detailed CoastalElevation map of NorthCarolina (and the southernmost portion of Virginia) showing where not to buy property due to too strong a probability of presentday storm-surge flooding and future flooding due sea-level rise.
Also an EXCELLENT website containing More Sea Level Rise Maps at even greater detail due to larger sizing.
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