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Jan 25th, 2012 @ 10:14 am

QUIT SLACKIN’ & MAKE SHIT HAPPEN!

QUIT SLACKIN’ & MAKE SHIT HAPPEN!

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Reblogged from Fools & Luxury.

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Jan 12th, 2012 @ 2:09 am

The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See

At first glance, Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America” may look like any other U.S. wall map. It’s about 4 feet by 3 feet. It uses a standard, two-dimensional conic projection. It has place names. Political boundaries. Lakes, rivers, highways.

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Imus map of the United States. 


So what makes this map different from the Rand McNally version you can buy at a bookstore? Or from the dusty National Geographic pull-down mounted in your child’s elementary school classroom? Can one paper wall map really outshine all others—so definitively that it becomes award-worthy?

I’m here to tell you it can. This is a masterful map. And the secret is in its careful attention to design.

These days, almost all the data cartographers use is provided by the government and is freely available in the public domain. Anybody can download databases of highways, airports, and cities, and then slap a crude map together with the aid of a plotter. What separates a great map from a terrible one is choosing which data to use and how best to present it.

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Dec 8th, 2011 @ 11:15 pm

U.S. Military Bases in the Middle East

U.S. Military Bases in the Middle East

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Apr 19th, 2011 @ 9:44 am

Map envelopes of the Continents This set of 6 handcrafted envelopes features maps of the world’s continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, North and South America. All envelopes have a map on both the inside and the outside, and there’s enough space on the front to write down a name or address. The envelopes come in a special wrapper that shows miniatures of all the different maps. $6.95 USD via peetypassion

Map envelopes of the Continents

This set of 6 handcrafted envelopes features maps of the world’s continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, North and South America. All envelopes have a map on both the inside and the outside, and there’s enough space on the front to write down a name or address. The envelopes come in a special wrapper that shows miniatures of all the different maps. $6.95 USD

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Reblogged from This is 1 Nation.

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Mar 22nd, 2011 @ 9:33 am

This is a series of maps charting the shrinkage of Native American lands over time, from 1784 to the present day. The gif is based on a collection of maps by Sam B. Hilliard of Louisiana State University.  You can see the original map here. For those who prefer dealing in numbers, here are some: By 1881, Indian landholdings in the United States had plummeted to 156 million acres. By 1934, only about 50 million acres remained (an area the size of Idaho and Washington) as a result of the General Allotment Act* of 1887. During World War II, the government took 500,000 more acres for military use. Over one hundred tribes, bands, and Rancherias relinquished their lands under various acts of Congress during the termination era of the 1950s. By 1955, the indigenous land base had shrunk to just 2.3 percent of its original size. —In the Courts of the Conqueror by Walter Echo-Hawk via imperfectrevolution

This is a series of maps charting the shrinkage of Native American lands over time, from 1784 to the present day. The gif is based on a collection of maps by Sam B. Hilliard of Louisiana State University.  You can see the original map here.

For those who prefer dealing in numbers, here are some:

By 1881, Indian landholdings in the United States had plummeted to 156 million acres. By 1934, only about 50 million acres remained (an area the size of Idaho and Washington) as a result of the General Allotment Act* of 1887. During World War II, the government took 500,000 more acres for military use. Over one hundred tribes, bands, and Rancherias relinquished their lands under various acts of Congress during the termination era of the 1950s.

By 1955, the indigenous land base had shrunk to just 2.3 percent of its original size.

—In the Courts of the Conqueror by Walter Echo-Hawk

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Reblogged from Monkey Brains and Banana.

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Dec 1st, 2009 @ 4:35 pm

Rockmap Visually linking the most influential and relevant artists in rock history. Stunningly rad. via dataviz

Rockmap

Visually linking the most influential and relevant artists in rock history. Stunningly rad.

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Reblogged from DataViz.

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