cartography
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The World’s Most (And Least) Populous Places Revealed In A Single Map
We’ve seen a lot of world population maps, but this might just be prettiest one yet. Simple black lines trace the population density by latitude, so that a few cities, labelled in yellow, tower like the skyscrapers over the land. It’s not unlike a cartographical version of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover.
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Middle Earth: Why We Need To Turn Our Map On Its Side
Although he never actually crossed it, the Greek mathematician Pythagoras is sometimes credited with having first conceived of the Equator, calculating its location on the Earth’s sphere more than four centuries before the birth of Christ. Aristotle, who never stepped over it either and knew nothing about the landscape surrounding it, pictured the equatorial region…
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Wood Carved Maps Won’t Help You Navigate, But They’re Lovely
Maps are an essential tool for navigating, but they can also just be flat out beautiful. You see the ins and outs of different neighborhoods and get a clue how a city unfolded and developed. While the cleverly named >Neighborwood maps of different cities aren’t something you’re going to stick in your back pocket next…
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Make Your Cartography Dreams Come True With Google Map Maker
Have you ever been scouting out – OK, stalking – an area on Google Maps and been frustrated that there’s a giant university campus-sized hole in the map? Now you can do something about it.