View The World In A Whole Different Way!
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The conventional way to project our Globe is by drawing each continent according to its landmass, which while technically correct, can get a little boring. What if we drew the Atlas based on Income or the number of Internet users in each continent? That's what the folks at WorldMapper have done and the results are quite eye opening.
One of their newest and most interesting depictions is re-sizing the Atlas by population. While we all know that India and China are the world's most populous countries and Australia, one of the least, it is amazing to see it on paper. As you can see, the former two swell up to never before seen sizes, while the world's largest country shrivels down to a tiny speck!
Individual maps of different countries reflect the same phenomenon - Cities like London, Paris, Sydney and Mexico City all appear bloated compared to the rest of the country.
Interestingly enough, while the large cities in the United States like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles do show a bulge, it is not as pronounced as some of the other countries.
WorldMapper is a collaborative effort of academics from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.To date, the team has mapped the world in 700 different ways that include categories like number of language, health, education etc. To view them check out their website at http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/index.html
sources: dailymail.co.uk, worldmapper.com
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la_elizaover 12 yearsCOOL!
izzysk8eralmost 14 yearswow that is a cool way to lay the land out!
kevirinoover 14 yearsawesome map!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- Horse Girlalmost 15 yearsThat is so cool, and very confusing at the same time!
- Shake It Up Rocksalmost 15 yearsThe map itself is pretty cool, but I think it woud be confusing to use it on a daily basis.
- joshyabout 15 yearsthat totally changes the way i picture a map
- Sydneyover 15 yearsI didnt know that you could map the world by population or Internet users!
- JANELover 15 yearsI have never thought of doing a map this way i wonder if we as a class did a map similer to the one above if it would turn out the same.
- Harmonyover 15 yearsI love how the maps show the populations by making it smaller for small populations and bigger for more popular places and states. The maps may be very useful for someone when they are going on a vacation so they know where there is a huge population of people.
- classover 15 yearsThis is a practice comment.