The Map Room

The Map Room
Here I will post some of my favorite maps, including the beautiful, the bizarre, the creative, and the misguided. I will also post a lot about geospatial technology, and I will share some of the web-based interactive maps I come across.
United Steaks of America (via reddit)

United Steaks of America (via reddit)

Video shows the movement of 881 iPhones in Europe in April 2011. From http://crowdflow.net/

Africa is big (via reddit)

Africa is big (via reddit)

Anamorphosis of the world’s population. 1 square = 1 million people (via reddit)

Anamorphosis of the world’s population. 1 square = 1 million people (via reddit)

motherjones:

Sweet Land of Subsidy: Wondering which states give more than they take in from the federal government? There’s a map for that.

motherjones:

Sweet Land of Subsidy: Wondering which states give more than they take in from the federal government? There’s a map for that.

The simplicity of this map pleases me.

The simplicity of this map pleases me.

(Source: iloveminnesota)

donovanmoxley:

I’m on my old computer and I found this picture I saved from an online geography class I took with Andy Baker at IUPUI a few summers ago: The United Countries of Baseball.  Nice mix of two of my favorite things: maps and (obviously) baseball.

donovanmoxley:

I’m on my old computer and I found this picture I saved from an online geography class I took with Andy Baker at IUPUI a few summers ago: The United Countries of Baseball.  Nice mix of two of my favorite things: maps and (obviously) baseball.

(via mapsandshhtuff)

curiositycounts:

How to use The New York Public Library’s Map Warper, a tool to harmonize, remix, and create new maps from the library’s collection of over 10,000 scanned historical maps.   (via)

European travel patterns (by Eric Fischer)

European travel patterns (by Eric Fischer)

sandmarg:

1982 Map of North American Winter Temperatures

sandmarg:

1982 Map of North American Winter Temperatures

(via mapsandshhtuff)