Mapping New York

by | Sep 14, 2016 | AP Human Geography, Geographical Imagination

You Are Here is a study of place.  Look at their maps of New York.

From their website:

“Each of these maps will be an aggregation of thousands of microstories, tracing the narratives of our collective experience. We will make maps of the little things that make up life — from the trees we hug, to the places where we crashed our bikes, to the benches where we fell in love.

Over time, we will grow this to 100 different maps of 100 different cities, creating an atlas of human experience.

We hope that by showing these stories, we empower people to make their city — and therefore the world — a more beautiful place.

You Are Here is a project of the Social Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab.”

 

70 Maps That Explain America

by | Sep 7, 2016 | American History, Transatlantic Cable

Mapping is much more than just plotting out routes from here to there.  Maps can explain both the past and present (and future) by visualizing themes and topics which explain who we are, where we have been and where we are going.  Check out the 70 maps here that dig deeper into American and provide an understanding we might not arrive at solely by reading the textbook.