All maps, all the time
Tuesday, May 2, 2006 at 12:24PM After all, the first book did feature a map prominently. ;-)
First up, Chirol's at it again with his fourth installment of Mapping the Gap, this time relative to the military deployments of our allies.
Secondly... Chirol again, this time linking to Foreign Policy's Failed States Index for 2006. As Chirol says, comparing the FSI to PNM 'there’s almost a perfect match'.
And, third, Tom's esteemed brother Andy sends in:
Worldmapper: The World as You've Never Seen It BeforeThis site features cartograms, maps showing global regions "re-sized according to the subject of interest." Some of the many map subjects include births, total population, children, elderly, refugees, immigrants, tourism, transportation, and imports and exports. Maps are available in a printable poster format, and are accompanied by explanatory text and data files. A collaboration among the University of Sheffield (England), University of Michigan, and other groups.
URL: http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/
LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21269
Enjoy!
Reader Comments (3)
Much obliged for the links and more so for indulging Coming Anarchy's geography fetish with World Mapper. The possibilities with those are many. As I often find, especially when looking at historical and ethnic maps, a simple map can tell you a lot more about most of today's problems than a lot of writing out there.
Its like everybody is blogging a week behind me. :) Then again I did use Barrnet's theory a lot so I think I should be silent.
So have we!