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Tag Archives: world maps
Map Monday: changes in world populations through the ages and associated factors for today’s world
Welcome back to Map Monday. This week we’re going to use cartograms to illustrate our story. Remember, cartograms are these strange looking maps that distort the shape of countries to reflect their relative contribution to the total amount being displayed. … Continue reading
Map Monday: indigenous history around the world, pre- and post-colonization
Today is the last day of May, the day before the beginning of June, which is National Indigenous History Month in Canada. There can be no more chilling reminder of why Canada needs to have a National Indigenous History Month … Continue reading
Map Monday: a cross-section of intriguing maps
This week’s Map Monday doesn’t have a specific theme. A number of these maps come from suggestions by generous readers, some of which pointed me to related intriguing maps. Many thanks to Adam, Sharon, and Jeff. I’ll get back to … Continue reading
Map Monday: more fun with projections and cartograms
We’ve looked at map projections before on Map Monday. To remind you, the most common projection – that is, the representation of the 3-D globe on a 2-D map – is the Mercator projection. There are many reasons for this, … Continue reading
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Tagged age of population, education, map conventions, maps, Peters projection, populations, projections, voter turnout, world maps
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Map Monday: why World Water Day is needed
Human beings can’t live without a certain amount of fresh water. Fresh water is a requirement for life, and therefore it would be hard to imagine anyone disagreeing that access to clean water should be a human right. But, as … Continue reading
Map Monday: what happens to all that plastic?
It was back in December when a fellow blogger, Kavitha at SunshinySA Site, posted what for me was a sit-up-and-take-notice fact: Coca Cola scores hat trick as world’s worst plastic polluter worldwide. Yes, for the third year in a row, … Continue reading
Map Monday: a little bit of this, a little bit of that
Let’s start this week’s Map Monday with a map that those of us who have shared our lives with cats will relate to. When I went looking for dog maps, just to be an equal opportunity pet reporter, I was … Continue reading
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Tagged cats, causes of death, dogs and cats, maps, moon, researchers, UK pubs, world leaders first employment, world maps
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Map Monday: realities behind some economic and political considerations
Today’s maps take a look at some challenges for economic and political decision-making. Doing the right thing – like addressing climate change and global inequality – isn’t easy. But the issues are real, folks, and they’re scary. And they’re going … Continue reading
