Map of the Week
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Follow up on the U.S. Africa Map Fiasco
I recently highlighted the embarrassingly bad map shown by the U.S. State Department in a post. The American Geographical Society just posted their response with the title State Department Africa Map Fiasco: Geography Matters. So Does Afric...
An American Mosaic
Yesterday’s New York Times showed a big map on the front cover with several pages of other maps from U.S. census data. An American Mosaic shows how people identify their ancestry.
Image via New York Times - I’ve manipulated it to add the...
U.S. Map Mislabels Every African Country
At a global AIDS conference the U.S. State Department showed this map of Africa.
-map via Reuters, reformatted to better fit the page.
Every country is incorrectly located and indicated with ridiculous shapes. Nigeria, where the US has t...
Where is Jimothy?
At a recent meeting, it came up that someone was looking at mapping Jimothy. As someone who is blissfully unaware of most social media trends, my first question was who? Obviously the next question was, is there a map? Of course there is!...
Mapping Illegal Dump Sites
Way back in 1990 I went to Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia) to volunteer for a mapping project. We mapped illegal dump sites in the Krka River valley. Unfortunately I don’t have any of those maps now, but here in Philadelphia they are doi...
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