Posts tagged maps
Some of these are just awesome: 40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World — twistedsifter.com/2013/08/maps-t… #maps #lists
A funny post on the evolution of domestic #cats — koryos.tumblr.com/post/577698371… #humour
@robinsloan Attention, fellow high-res public domain image hounds: blogs.getty.edu/iris/open-cont… WOW what a windfall. /via @golan
I have been playing with Map Stack by Stamen Design, a web service allowing you to create customised maps (and which strangely runs on a schedule). Here’s my hometown of Porto rendered in red.
A 110-year old map of undersea communication cables from. The Portuguese coast is quite busy and I wonder if this is still the case today (via Boing Boing).
On a related note, Neal Stephenson’s Mother Earth Mother Board, a surprisingly entertaining (at least for me) account of the laying of undersea fiberoptic cables in late 20th century.
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