The following were sent to me from Dan Gomez. They offer a fascinating insight into the power of graphically representing any number of ideas. Hope you find them as fascinating as I did!
This map shows the world divided into 7 sections (each with a distinct color) with each section containing 1 billion people.
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This map shows (in white) where 98 percent of Australia’s population lives.
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It may not come as a surprise but more people live inside the circle than outside of it.
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This map shows what is on the other side of the world from where you are standing. For the most part it will probably be water.
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Apparently you can’t get Big Macs everywhere. This map shows (in red) the countries that have McDonalds.
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This map shows the countries (in blue) where people drive on the left side of the road.
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This map shows countries (in white) that England has never invaded. There are only 22 of them.
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The line in this map shows all of the world’s Internet connections in 1969.
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This map shows the countries that heavily restricted Internet access in 2013.
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This map shows (in red) countries that were all Communist at one point in time.
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This map shows (in red) the countries that don’t use the metric system.
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This map shows (in blue) places where Google street view is available.
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This map shows (in green) all the landlocked countries of the world.
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And this is what the world would look like if all the countries with coast lines sank.
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This is a map of the all the rivers in the United States.
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And these are all the rivers that feed into the Mississippi River.
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This is a map of the highest paid public employees in the United States.
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This map shows how much space the United States would occupy on the moon.
Would love to hear which of the maps you found most interesting, and why?
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