Foreign Policy’s Tuesday Map Blog
July 31st, 2008by Sean Gorman
Mookie came across a cool blog run by the Foreign Policy journal that features a new map every Tuesday. The maps cover not only mash-ups but also print cartography and all have a foreign policy angle of some sort. Since F1 spun out of GMU’s School of Public Policy it is very encouraging to see maps playing such a prominent role in arguably the top tier policy journal.
The breadth of maps and cartographic approaches is quite impressive. Everything from this nice cartographic map of crime in Leeds UK:
(nice Ordnance Survey base data but would have been cheaper to use OSM ;-))
To map mash-ups like this collection of pushpins illustrating where journalists have been attacked:
A nice resource if you can’t quite get enough map porn in your daily web surfing.
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April 6th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
I’ve never given this a try, but I think it’s about time I do.