Cartography and Digital Google Maps

Leo Mirani has the story at The Atlantic in Why the New Google Maps Is the Most Honest Form of Cartography.

Gerhard Mercator 500th Birthday Celebration Sint-Niklaas, Belgium 4 March to 26 August 2012

The 500th Birthday of Gerhard Mercator is being celebrated this year in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium from 4 March to 26 August 2012. See mercatordigitaal.be.




  

Euratlas Periodis Web - Maps to be Used for the History of Europe

Euratlas Periodis Web - Maps to be Used for the History of Europe: - Sent using Google Toolbar

America Migration Within Its Own Borders: An Interactive Map and Visualization at Forbes by Jon Bruner

At Forbes, John Bruner has an "interactive visualization" of Migration in America based on IRS data, which traces patterns of migration for every county in the nation -- red/orange for "moving out" and blue/green for "moving in".

See in this regard Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith, and Abigail Wozniak, Internal Migration in the United States, [and update?] Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C., 2011-30. NOTE: Staff working papers in the Finance and Economics Discussion Series (FEDS) are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comment. The analysis and conclusions set forth are those of the authors and do not indicate concurrence by other members of the research staff or the Board of Governors. References in publications to the Finance and Economics Discussion Series (other than acknowledgement) should be cleared with the author(s) to protect the tentative character of these papers.

[Our comment: There is in our mind no excuse for the sloppy way in which the above papers are dated and "marked". 2011-30 means nothing to an average reader. What is wrong with giving the EXACT date of publication (day, month, year), while CLEARLY MARKING on the first page that this is a so-called "WORKING PAPER", its version ("Version 1" etc.), if applicable, etc. Authors and publishers assist no one by adding confusion to the world through incomplete or obscure identification of materials!]

CommonCensus Sports Map

CommonCensus Sports Map: - Sent using Google Toolbar

The Geography of College Football Fans (and Realignment Chaos) - NYTimes.com

The Geography of College Football Fans (and Realignment Chaos) - NYTimes.com: - Sent using Google Toolbar

The Axe Majeur of Cergy-Pointoise in France: The Great Geodetic Work of François Mitterrand

See "Cergy-Pointoise’s “Axe Majeur” and Mitterrand’s Great – Unknown – Work. Whether all of the speculations there are true or not, it is interesting reading.