The Maps and Geography Thread

[Lost Student]

6 Reasons to Get Over Your Fear of Coding and Start Making Better Maps

[Omaha 680]

NY is only occasionally profane? This must not include manhattan or long island.

Actually, one thing I have been surprised by in my move to NYC is how little profanity there seems to be in public. It is there, but I expected much worse. Of course, I do come from a Sailor state.

[Omaha 680]

The seven deadly sins (for those who don't concern themselves with such things and/or have never seen that creepy Brad Pitt movie) are, in no particular order: wrath, envy, greed, gluttony, sloth, lust and pride.

Seeking to discover where in America those sins are most prevalent, a group of geographers from Kansas State University did some research using data on things such as number of fast food restaurants per capita (gluttony), number of thefts and robberies (envy), and average incomes compared with the number of inhabitants living beneath the poverty line (greed).

The maps originally were created in 2009, but recently popped up again thanks to a blog at memolition.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...170946186.html

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[Jeff Lebowski]

That Wisconsin "W" seems awfully big for the 38 degrees it represents, especially considering the oval Y should be nearly 4 times bigger.

You have to have non-linear scaling in the legend or some symbols would obscure the map.

That red U is way too big.

[Donuthole]

Where BYU faculty earned doctorates:

http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/vi...2.8783,69.3093

That Wisconsin "W" seems awfully big for the 38 degrees it represents, especially considering the oval Y should be nearly 4 times bigger.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Where BYU faculty earned doctorates:

http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/vi...2.8783,69.3093

[wuapinmon]

The British Library just realeased over 1,000,000 images to the public domain scanned in from books in their collection. They're asking people to crowdsource identification of certain things, and categorization too. Here are some examples from the "Maps" set that has been compiled in the last 72 hours. http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

[ewth8tr]

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[Jeff Lebowski]

That's fucking interesting.

Damn straight.

[creekster]

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NY is only occasionally profane? This must not include manhattan or long island.

[Pelado]

That's fucking interesting.

Damn straight.

[Lost Student]

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/...15.27%20AM.png

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That's fucking interesting.

[Pelado]

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/...15.27%20AM.png

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[Lost Student]

This is what I have been trying to tell you and PBW. Nobody gives a shit about Nebraska.

I thought you were referring particularly to Nebraska the institution of higher education (or maybe even more specifically the football team), not necessarily the state--did I misread you?

[Omaha 680]

This is what I have been trying to tell you and PBW. Nobody gives a shit about Nebraska.

You've never tried to tell me that.