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Map Addict
For anyone still here, I have just started reading Map Addict by Mike Parker, all about his fascination with maps and cartography, and I would definitely recommend it.
He starts off talking about how he used to steal maps from shops as a child, and that's just the first chapter. -
Mapcher - the map matcher
Let me introduce Mapcher .
It is a new service for visual comparison of geographic objects and distances.
Try it and comment please.
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Relationships among Scientific Paradigms
A visualization of science that was generated by clustering citation-based papers. As to what the image depicts, it was constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 scientific papers into 776 different scientific paradigms (shown as red and blue circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by authors of other papers. Links (curved ( Read more... ) -
Income inequality continues to grow
Richest 1% to own more than rest of world according to a new report by the charity Oxfam.
BBC Business link.
The charity's research shows that the share of the world's wealth owned by the richest 1% increased from 44% in 2009 to 48% last year ( Read more... ) -
Africa imagined had the plague wiped out most of Europe
And had the caliphates been the dominant thing in the Mediterranean/Africa. ( It's big ) -
Flickr's Fake Metro Group
Subway maps that maybe ought to be...can be found here:
https://secure.flickr.com/groups/fakemetro/pool/
Intriguing to see what might've been and may yet be, yes?
