January 30, 2012

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geocrusader80: Fictional Geography.  Events in the past could have shaped the United States into these divisions you see on the map.

geocrusader80:

Fictional Geography.  Events in the past could have shaped the United States into these divisions you see on the map.

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January 29, 2012
sandmarg: 1982 Map of North American Winter Temperatures

sandmarg:

1982 Map of North American Winter Temperatures

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smittosmith: ilovecharts: thedailyfeed: One in six American adults is a binge drinker, consuming alcohol in excess about four times a month, according to a sobering CDC report. In the infographic above, you’ll find the percentage of population classified as binge drinkers. The study — which defines binge drinking as five or more drinks in a short period of time for men and four or more for women — breaks down the nation’s 38 million binge drinkers by a variety of measures, including geography, age and income level. Wisconsin is the state with the most binge drinkers at 25 percent of the population, while Utah, home to the teetotaling Mormon church, comes in last at less than 11 percent. Cheers. Home sweet home. NB: We in the north clearly understand the value of a “shot for warmth”

smittosmith:

ilovecharts:

thedailyfeed:

One in six American adults is a binge drinker, consuming alcohol in excess about four times a month, according to a sobering CDC report. In the infographic above, you’ll find the percentage of population classified as binge drinkers.

The study — which defines binge drinking as five or more drinks in a short period of time for men and four or more for women — breaks down the nation’s 38 million binge drinkers by a variety of measures, including geography, age and income level. Wisconsin is the state with the most binge drinkers at 25 percent of the population, while Utah, home to the teetotaling Mormon church, comes in last at less than 11 percent.

Cheers.

Home sweet home.

NB: We in the north clearly understand the value of a “shot for warmth”

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January 28, 2012
thedailywhat: National Forest Map of the Day: And while we’re on the subject, here’s an informative infographic called the National Biomass and Carbon Dataset, which, according to Woods Hole Research Center scientist Josef Kellndorfer is “the largest high-resolution map of forest biomass yet assembled.” A collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, the national forest map was assembled using satellite imagery and on-the-ground measurements collected over the course of six years. [nasa / twbe.] 

thedailywhat:

National Forest Map of the Day: And while we’re on the subject, here’s an informative infographic called the National Biomass and Carbon Dataset, which, according to Woods Hole Research Center scientist Josef Kellndorfer is “the largest high-resolution map of forest biomass yet assembled.”

A collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, the national forest map was assembled using satellite imagery and on-the-ground measurements collected over the course of six years.

[nasa / twbe.] 

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vanishingnight:

From my ongoing Altered States Project, in which I’m making these abstract sculptures from an old atlas. I’m taking cues for the surface geometry from arbitrary divisions of states and counties; absurdly mocking the structure of a topographical map.

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January 27, 2012
devmonster: nprfreshair: a map of people in chicago going to work and then going home via their geotagged tweets (via gapersblock) Is this the structure of Chicago? (by Eric Fischer) Looks like a retina scan, am I right?

devmonster:

nprfreshair:

a map of people in chicago going to work and then going home via their geotagged tweets (via gapersblock)

Is this the structure of Chicago? (by Eric Fischer)

Looks like a retina scan, am I right?

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thedailywhat: Infographic of the Day: Using geo data from photos uploaded by users to Google’s Panoramio, Sightsmap generates an interactive heatmap of the most frequently photographed spots around the world. [petapixel.]

thedailywhat:

Infographic of the Day: Using geo data from photos uploaded by users to Google’s Panoramio, Sightsmap generates an interactive heatmap of the most frequently photographed spots around the world.

[petapixel.]

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January 26, 2012
smartercities: How Citizen Mapmakers are Changing the Stories of our Cities “Individuals inside cities and elsewhere are creating maps for themselves and in fact giving us their own narrative of what a cityscape is about. They are telling us what is important to them, and they’re mapping the kinds of things that previously would not be mapped. It’s becoming part of the creation of a culture of a city.” More on This Big City

smartercities:

How Citizen Mapmakers are Changing the Stories of our Cities

“Individuals inside cities and elsewhere are creating maps for themselves and in fact giving us their own narrative of what a cityscape is about. They are telling us what is important to them, and they’re mapping the kinds of things that previously would not be mapped. It’s becoming part of the creation of a culture of a city.”

More on This Big City

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countrygramma:

this is the difference between the Mercator (left) and Equal Area (right) projections. do you see the GIGANTIC difference in how Africa and South America are portrayed?? The Equal Area projection is a much more accurate depiction of size ratios (in terms of Africa to Europe, for example), and yet it’s banned in public schools in the US, and the Mercator map is the official map of the US government. 

seriously anyone who denies the fact that the US government is openly and purposely racist is an ignorant racist fuck 

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