Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain are a pair of young Brazilian artists, working in their home country and in France. Some of their work explores fonts and maps. Typography meets cartography in this little work, entitled ‘The World, Justified’.
It shows the world we live in as only one of four possibilities, the others being a left-aligned, centred and right-aligned world. Our world is a justified one, i.e. aligned with both left and right margins.via bigthink.com
As a tribute to XKCD’s ‘Map of Online Communities’, flowtown.com have decided to re-create our own, updated version of this map. The numbers are taken to reflect many new developments in the social networking communities, including Facebook surpassing Myspace as the preeminent online community:
via www.flowtown.com
This map shows the global state of the planet in relation to forest fires in "real time".
via firefly.geog.umd.edu
States are taking on more debt. Here’s your state’s burden per capita.
via money.cnn.com
Aurorae are in the news due to the recent coronal mass ejection. The plots on this page show the current extent and position of the auroral oval at each pole, extrapolated from measurements taken during the most recent polar pass of the NOAA POES satellite. "Center time" is the calculated time halfway through the satellite's pass over the pole.
via www.mcwetboy.net more www.swpc.noaa.gov
Great whales: Conservation status status, length, weight, order, family, species and range map.
via bbc.co.uk
This map was a promotional e-card for the book, the caption at the bottom reads: “This playful diagram shows all the cities which have, are building or are planning to construct an urban rail system. It is the opening page of a new book about the graphic design of subway, metro, underground and U-Bahn system maps and diagrams.”
via bigthink.comCart is a computer software for creating density-equalizing maps or "cartograms" using the technique described in the recent paper Diffusion-based method for producing density equalizing maps.
Cart is an open source program. If you wish to run the complete program "cart" to make cartograms from your own data, you can compile the source code as provided. For this you'll need a C compiler, such as Visual C++ or GCC.To download the software, click here.For documentation on how to use the software, click here. via http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cart/Examples of cartograms created using this software
The past couple of years have been a financial nightmare for millions of Americans who have lost their jobs or homes (or both) and are struggling under mounting debt. But the reality is that for a segment of the population — those who work for minimum wage — even the boom years that preceded the crash have probably not been much easier.
via www.mint.com
Each red dot on this map shows where spam messages are originating in real time. Saturated areas show high concentrations of malicious IPs.
via www.google.com