Mapmaker, mapmaker

make me a map.

I have always been fascinated by the different means devised to envision information. This blog explores or presents various expressions of geographic information. We all saw during the election this week how the United States can be drawn as a binary map: red and blue. Today's Strange Maps' post tells us that "In January of 2004, the Boston Globe newspaper issued an original variation on the theme of political preferences in America: it divided the country into 10 distinct, but not necessarily contiguous areas. The regions were based on election results, demographic data and certain geographic features." Pretty interesting.

While in the US, the geographical distinction between the good people and the carpetbaggers is generally accepted to be the Mason-Dixon line, there are much more interesting ways to delineate and differentiate qualities of the north and south. An example of European north/south linear divides (linguistically, religiously, topographically, meteorological):



Then, of course, you can always pick up a copy of "Let's Go! Mongo"

Sorta blows away Google Earth.