Just in time for Passover and Easter, a friend of mine in the program passes along these handy maps of American religious groupings, based on 2000 census data. It’s hard to get a sense of religious diversity in any given area from these color-coded, religion-specific maps…still, they’re worth taking a look at.
Category: Maps and Legends
Cartography of Mars.
“‘The idea is to look at Mars and not think of it as a mysterious alien place,’ Christensen said.” Along the lines of Google Moon, one can now journey to Google Mars.
Say Cheese.
Via a friend in the program, Google maps the moon to commemorate the 36th anniversary of Apollo 11.
World Mapper Pretend.
Test your geography skills, via Pith and Vinegar. Oof, my performance on the South American map the first time around was pretty embarrassing.
Red and Swollen?
The NY Times surveys the demographic and electoral changes to the red state/blue state map going into 2004, and apparently Dubya states have picked up 7 electoral votes since the last go-around. Well, unless you’re going to presume that all the people that have moved to the red zone in the past four years vote Republican, I’m not sure this tells us all that much.
Check the map.
By way of A Small Victory, test your geography with this interactive map of the Middle East. I have to admit, the first time around I did pretty poorly, particularly in Central Africa and the former Soviet Union.