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Chart of Electromagnetic Radiations 23 Aug 2013 | 01:11 am
A beautiful classic from 1944:
Timeline Maps 22 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
I like these vintage history maps. They are nice and information dense, and you can almost smell your old school when you look at them. Below is the hard to find “Histomap of Religion” which recen...
Mapping Vice in San Francisco 15 Aug 2013 | 08:48 pm
Ok, it’s from 1885, but have things really changed much?
Pasta 15 Aug 2013 | 08:41 pm
Can anyone explain to me why there are so many different shapes of pasta?
Death and Taxes 2014 15 Aug 2013 | 08:31 pm
A visualization of where the government spends your money (and the money it borrows). I prefer previous years’ way of graphing the total budget in the corner with circles vs the bar chart now used.
What Lands Did Europeans Really Discover? 14 Aug 2013 | 07:56 pm
Nice work by Bill Rankin over at Radial Cartography. He tries to map out lands that were really uninhabited prior to discovery. You’ll notice they were mostly small islands. If you like maps and have...
Its Crowded Around Here 14 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
Below is a map of the orbits of 1400+ asteroids as collected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Thankfully, none of these potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) are expected to intersect the Earth’s orbit ...
Washington DC Transit (1888-today) 13 Aug 2013 | 08:34 pm
I came across this interesting map of 1888 horsedrawn streetcars in Washington DC: Not entirely difference from the location accurate version of the modern subway map: Of course, a more accurate com...
Atlas of Prejudice 5 Aug 2013 | 11:52 pm
Alphadesigner continues to take satirical mapping to a new level, with several dozen maps of stereotypes, from many different perspectives, updated regularly.
Red Heads and Blondes 5 Aug 2013 | 11:42 pm
I had no idea there was a red-head enclave in Russia. (further discussion) Blondes:
