County-level results from the 2016 U.S. presidential election Color = winner and margin of victory Height = total number of votes (all candidates) Full screen version / See how this map was made Election maps are telling you...
It’s well known that air travel impacts the climate. U.S. aircraft account for 11% of transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. And as the EPA announced just last month, aircraft emissions contribute to climate change and “endanger the public health and welfare of...
Have you ever sat on a beach and wondered what’s across the ocean? If you think you can figure out the answer just by looking at a map, read on. You may be surprised. I was. To ask the...
Click Me! Take a look at a map of the world. If it looks like this one, as most do, you will see that Alaska appears larger than Mexico and that Greenland looks about the same size as Africa. In reality, Mexico...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about some of the world’s most peculiar territorial disputes. And among them I listed Arunachal Pradesh, a territory claimed by both China and India. What makes this dispute “peculiar” is not the dispute itself, but rather how...
This is a follow up to yesterday’s post on world population density. Several people thought the map would be more meaningful if it were done as an equal area projection. For non-map geeks, an equal area projection is a way of...