Category Archives: map
Election Maps
I was looking for an election map that was tallied by precinct and had a color code that indicated the percentage of the popular vote going one way or the other. I didn’t find it. But I did find a cool cartogram displaying the (projected) election results with the map shifted to indicate population sizes. …
The Most Important News Yet This Week
CARPE DIEM covers where some of the estimated 600 Starbucks will be closing. With a map! You can never go wrong if you’ve got a map. It’s a sign of the apocalypse, I tell you. I don’t like their coffee, anyway.
Pakistan has no Capital -or- Why GISs need to be Tweaked
According to Microsoft Streets & Trips, Pakistan has no Capital. Islamabad should be right there, next to Rawalpindi, but it’s not. You have to zoom way in before it becomes visible. In defense of MS Streets & Trips, the symbol allocated to Islamabad indicates that, yes, it is the national capital, however given that Islamabad …
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