Foreign Policy’s Tuesday Map Blog
July 31st, 2008by Sean Gorman
About the Author: Sean Gorman founded FortiusOne in 2005 to bring location based analytics to the mass market. Sean brings over 10 years of experience at the forefront of the geospatial revolution as a researcher, practitioner, and entrepreneur at FortiusOne. Through both academic and entreprenurial efforts he has been working to make geographic data more accessible to the public since 1997 culminating in the creation of GeoCommons – a crowd-sourced repository of statistical data and social feeds that can be easily mapped, remixed and reused by non-technical users.
Sean has been featured in media such as, Wired, Der Spiegel, ABC, Washington Post, Business 2.0, MSNBC, CBS and CNN. He also holds a PhD. From George Mason University in Public Policy where he was the Provost’s High Potential Scholar and was the recipient of the Fischer Prize. He has published dozens of articles on geographic data sharing and analysis, and authored the book Networks, Complexity and Security: The Role of Public Policy in Critical Infrastructure Protection. Read more from this authorMookie 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 
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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.