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@AmericanGeo and @GWGeography are very proud of our work with YouthMappers. And now there is a documentary about the organization that has its origins at GW. @YouthMappers @Patiflafla @HMS_GW
youtube.com/watch?v=xWOqYtv6… Please view and share!
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A Logarithmic Map of the Entire Observable Universe 🌌
This piece by @budassiuniverse is part of Visual Capitalist's Creator Program, featuring work from the world's top data-driven talent ✅
Want to learn more? Click here: visualcapitalist.com/cp/map-…
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have you seen a *visual* table of contents in a book?
like this one from @infowetrust📕
ALT illustration of a book's table of contents. It starts at page 0 with a person walking and to moves to a village called Origin. Then goes to a metaphorical island, then to the mathematical area, then to a sensational volcano, and finally off to sail called Onward.
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In 1898, Wilbur Henry Siebert published a map showing the Underground Railroad routes used by as many as 40,000 enslaved people from the early 19th c. to 1865. Using Siebert’s map and personal memoirs, Karen Lewis created these visualizations to tell the stories of 3 survivors.
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It's #FreeMapMonday! Re-tweet and follow us for a chance to win this Historical Map of Colorado published in 1894!
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The Quarantine Atlas, a new book from @citylab, takes stock of how global landscapes shifted during the pandemic, in 65 homemade maps and original essays.
See an excerpt from the book: trib.al/9gWiIU0
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In the 40s & 50s, Robert Moses cut a seven mile long gash through The Bronx to build the Cross Bronx Expressway, displacing over 60,000 people in some of the most racially-integrated communities in the country.
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The 19th-century naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace created a visualization that tied different species to specific regions of the world. It still holds up. #MapMonday bit.ly/2TSqaIo
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Keep the kids (or yourself busy) for a few hours. Grab your colored pencils and try these connect-the-dots topo #maps. ow.ly/gs4750zGnce #ArcGIS
About this map: Mount Taranaki is a stratovolcano in New Zealand with one of the most symmetrical volcano cones in the world.
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Mapping the Early Modern World brings higher education faculty together to explore the study of maps (world, city, land, sea, and skies) in connection with the global intellectual, cultural, and geographical transformations of 1400-1700.
Apply by 3/1: bit.ly/33g5z7S
ALT Engraved map with hand coloring, printed in Venice, Italy, by Stefano Scolari in 1676, and titled: True and Accurate Map of the Inclined City of Venice. (Vero e real disegno della inclita città di Venezia.) By Giovanni Merlo, active 1656–1696. Mapping the Early Modern World – A 2022 Summer Institute at the Newberry Library (wordpress.com)
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The Atlantic slave trade spanned nearly four centuries and brought a documented nine million men, women, and children across the ocean to be owned as property and forced into grueling labor. on.natgeo.com/3J28z7p #blackhistorymonth #slavetrade #clotilda #slavery
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It's #FreeMapMonday! Re-tweet and follow us for a chance to win this map of Earthquakes in Washington & Oregon!
This will be the last #FreeMapMonday of 2021. We will return January 2022. Have a safe and happy holidays!
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Ever struggled to explain map projections? this might help :)
mathigon.org/course/circles/…
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Landsat-9, arguably the world's most important satellite, will go into orbit today 🛰️
Its mission? To continue an unbroken, near-50-year observation of our changing world 🌍 bbc.in/3kJFoN7
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In 02004, map collector, cartographic thinker and Long Now Board Member @DavidRumseyMaps gave a Long Now Seminar on “Mapping Time.” Revisit his illustrated remarks on maps, GIS, the future of data and knowledge handling here: longnow.org/seminars/02004/m…
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Areas of #US Compared To Europe Countries With Equal GDP & Corresponding Cities
Source: ow.ly/JyDK50FmqNZ
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the Star Wars Minard chart from me and @ellawinthrop is still one of my favorite things we did fivethirtyeight.com/features…
