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https://musicalgeography.org/ This is the Musical Geography Project, where various music histories are visually represented by maps. Featured are all genres of music across the globe, and each map functions a little differently. Some show the relationship between time progression and … Continue reading →

  Have you ever considered how the 7.8 billion people or rather the (7.5 billion when this map was created in 2017) are dispersed throughout the world? This map called “The Earth Divided In 10 Zones of Equal Population” does … Continue reading →

https://www.wired.com/category/maplab/  I chose this blog Map Lab on wired.com because it contains an interesting combination of many different types of maps. It uses maps as a jumping off point for discussions of present issues and important current events. Through the … Continue reading →

I chose Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities by Frank Jacobs for this week because I think it pairs really well with our class discussions. The Atlas questions the confines of what it means to be a map. Additionally, … Continue reading →

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/04/29/kirk-goldsberry-once-mapped-food-deserts-flood-data-now-his-maps-are-changing-nba/ These maps are very different than most maps we have talked about in class. Kirk Goldsberry is a cartographer who now maps shots on a basketball court. Kirk Goldsberry has a book, Sprawlball, with hundreds of maps, and this … Continue reading →

The Atlas of Remote Islands is a collection of fifty mysterious islands. These obscure islands are all vastly different and have their own histories. This atlas is filled with full-color maps and incredible pictures. These islands are not well-known to … Continue reading →

The prize-winning, map of the month, “The Unmeasured World” is a map generated using other maps. The mapmaker dug through one hundred choropleth world maps posted on Reddit in order to win this map competition. They collected data on how … Continue reading →

Field is an academic cartographer and geographer from the United Kingdom. He has taught since 2011, talking and writing about cartography. This blog is a look into his perspective on all different types of maps from all over the world. … Continue reading →

https://soundcartography.wordpress.com/ The blog that I chose to submit to our class collection is called Sound Cartography. This blog examines sound maps from all over the world and looks to analyze them. Sound maps can give people a new method to study … Continue reading →

If you have ever been anywhere in the United States then chances are that you’ve been to one of these airports marked on the map above. With over 3.7 million square miles of sights and sounds to see, the United … Continue reading →