Image above: Fishing fleet, Port Lincoln, South Australia
Sites related to Spatialworlds
Spatialworlds website
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Humsteach blog
Follow Spatialworlds on Twitter
Email contact
manning@chariot.net.au
Where am I??
Port Lincoln, South Australia: S: 34º 42' E: 135º 52'
Seeing the world through the eyes of a geographer with maps and visualisations
Much has been spoken
about geographical thinking but much of geographical thinking is dependent on
geographical looking. The geographer’s use of maps and visualisations enables
them to see the world quite differently to the non-geographer. Maps and visualisations
expose locations, distributions, patterns and trends which provide the basis of
spatial thinking and analysis. In this posting I have listed a range of great
maps/visualisations which provide a different look at the world. When looking
at each representation (whether old or new), the geographer will undertake
spatial analysis with the ever present geographical questions of where and
why. It makes sense that some describe geography is the study of the "why of the where".
The following are just
the tip of the iceberg of interesting maps from the past and today.
* Chicago violence map over 72 hours
* Total Annual Building Energy Consumption for New York City
* Mapping the drug wars in Mexico
* Visa mapper: an open-source tool for determining which countriesrequire a visa to visit
* Visualizing the Global Digital Divide by mapping Internet and population. It shows more than 80,000 populated places in blue and about 350,000 locations of IP addresses in red. White dots indicate places where many people live and many IP addresses are available.
* This is what the world’s oceans would looklike if the Earth didn’t spin
* Britain has invaded all but 22 countries in the world in its long and colourful history, new research has found
* Africa in 1908* Total Annual Building Energy Consumption for New York City
* Mapping the drug wars in Mexico
* Visa mapper: an open-source tool for determining which countriesrequire a visa to visit
* Visualizing the Global Digital Divide by mapping Internet and population. It shows more than 80,000 populated places in blue and about 350,000 locations of IP addresses in red. White dots indicate places where many people live and many IP addresses are available.
* This is what the world’s oceans would looklike if the Earth didn’t spin
* Britain has invaded all but 22 countries in the world in its long and colourful history, new research has found
* London: a functional analysis from
Patrick Abercrombie's post-war urban planning, 1944
* Time-Lapse Map of the World's 2053 Nuclear
Explosions
* Visualization of taxi traffic. Part of
"Sense of Patterns" - visualizing mobility data in public spaces.
* "Dencity"by Fathom, a look at population density, with larger dots representing sparser.
* US map of the percent born in state of residence
(2010)* "Dencity"by Fathom, a look at population density, with larger dots representing sparser.
* Where people post geo-tagged photos toFlickr (red) from and geo-tagged tweets to Twitter from (blue), or both (white). By Eric Fischer.
* UK riots overlaid on a map of UK poverty
* Eight-year olds travel distances, then and now
* "Food Deserts" - no car and no supermaket within a mile.
* Google Earth layer showing Russian Wildfire activity
* "See Rome as it looked in 320 AD and fly down to see famous buildings and monuments
in 3D. Select the 'Ancient Rome 3D' layer under Gallery in Google Earth."
* Ten of the greatest: Maps that changed the world
. A recent
exhibition at the British Library charts the extraordinary documents
that transformed the way we view the globe foreverJust for interest on the nothing is new theme A fantastic contraption, called the ‘Routefinder’, showed 1920s drivers in the UK the roads they were travelling down, gave them the mileage covered and told them to stop when they came at journey’s end.
No comments:
Post a Comment