Radical Cartography

November 14, 2005 3:50 PM

Radical Cartography. A collection of interesting maps such as place-name etymology, the US suicide rate, animal/vegetable production and an interactive tourist map of Nice, FR.
posted by greasy_skillet (14 comments total)

The maps on that page are great. Bill Rankin is my new hero.
posted by driveler at 4:04 PM on November 14, 2005

WHITE MEN REPRESENT
SUICIDE BUSTIN'
posted by jenovus at 4:27 PM on November 14, 2005

This is good! But will I get any work done for the next two hours?
posted by LarryC at 4:39 PM on November 14, 2005

Cool maps - I think - but what a horrific, needlessly glitzy interface. It has already crashed Firefox twice...
posted by twsf at 5:18 PM on November 14, 2005

Perhaps some statistics wizard among you might be able to correlate this with that?

I keed.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 5:22 PM on November 14, 2005

Huh - in the Nice feature, why do the "noise" links (ears) open images, and the "sight" ones (eyes) open sounds?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 5:28 PM on November 14, 2005

twsf - Agreed. For a site with such interesting and well-designed content, accessing said content is a bitch. But what a great link!
posted by thirdparty at 6:21 PM on November 14, 2005

I *heart* cartographers. Thanks greasy!
posted by cmonkey at 6:37 PM on November 14, 2005

Great link.

When I was a kid, I scored some maps that showed regions as seen from a particular place, e.g., Asian as seen from Japan. They were sort of like that famous New Yorker cartoon, but with real cartography, just distorted by the view from wherever.

Anyone know where I can find these again?
posted by orthogonality at 7:26 PM on November 14, 2005

I'm actually rather impressed the cartographers parted out Mexico's substates, but did not do so with Brazil's. Perhaps it is too overwhelmingly Portuguese?
posted by trigonometry at 9:51 PM on November 14, 2005

I have been looking for a geographic map of the "T" for a long time. Yay!
\\didn't crash my Firefox
posted by Lord Kinbote at 6:53 AM on November 15, 2005

Very nice. Thanks for the link. I was going to try and get some work done.
posted by OmieWise at 7:19 AM on November 15, 2005

Way cool. Thanks.
posted by safetyfork at 8:51 AM on November 15, 2005

"me too" on "thanks for the great link".
posted by kurumi at 9:59 AM on November 15, 2005