Cartographia

@geocrusader80-blog

"The spatial world as we know it may only seem invisible to the average person, but for a geographer, it is our world." ............................................................. Check out my blog that establishes a geospatial community for anyone interested in geography with links to all the social media sites I maintain: http://geocrusader80.blogspot.com/ ................................................................... “A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.” — Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Editor of National Geographic (1903- 1954)

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artmaps

Watercolor street map of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, on Etsy

#pittsburgh #map #art

Despite the overwhelming busyness of this map, it is quite informative #humangeography #map

#humangeography #english #North America #linguistics #map

An absolutely beautifully-made map of Swiss mountains extracted from http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003vq

#Mapmaker #map #cartography #swiss

maptacular

This Map Shows Which States Americans Are Moving To And Leaving Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/2013-moving-map-2014-1#ixzz2puuHvVBk

Interesting #map of Ancestry throughout the U.S. based on census data - #history #genealogy #geography

Source: http://geographer-at-large.blogspot.com/2012/02/map-of-week-2-20-2012ancestry-and.html

#genealogy #geography #history #ancestry #map

Global Administrative Areas Database via @jatorre

Data from gadm.org representing all adminsitrative areas in the world

source: http://osm2.cartodb.com/viz/ad34dd76-41ad-11e3-a9a3-6805ca04cef1/embed_map?title=true&description=true&search=false&shareable=false&cartodb_logo=true&layer_selector=true&legends=true&scrollwheel=true&sublayer_options=1&sql=&zoom=2&center_lat=40.54876550151149&center_lon=-1.4289093017578125

mapsontheweb

Animated map of European colonial empires.

npr

In Kenya, Using Tech To Put An ‘Invisible’ Slum On The Map

If you were to do a search for the Nairobi city slum of Mathare on Google Maps, you’d find little more than gray spaces between unmarked roads.

Slums by nature are unplanned, primordial cities, the opposite of well-ordered city grids. Squatters rights rule, and woe to the visitor who ventures in without permission. But last year, a group of activist cartographers called the Spatial Collective started walking around Mathare typing landmarks into hand-held GPS devices.

In a slum with no addresses and no street names, they are creating a map of what it’s like to live here.

Read the rest and listen to the story on Morning Edition.

(Map courtesy of Muungano Support Trust and Jason Corburn, UC Berkeley)