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Tintin Geographies from 1991
Looking back over the year there have been so many things I have wanted to spend more time working on – one of them was this idea of Tintin Geographies, which of course was prompted by the release of the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Exploration, Film, Just interesting, Lesson Resources, Teaching
Tagged comics, Geographies, geography, maps, resources, Teaching, Tintin
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A wealth of maps – Mapping Manchester through time
A quite exciting development from the University of Manchester library this week: “Over 300 historical maps spanning 200 years of Mancunian history have been digitised and published online by The University of Manchester Library. One of the bomb damage maps … Continue reading
Posted in Lesson Resources, Maps, Teaching
Tagged history, Manchester, maps, resources
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Maps as reality?
This is a bit of longer post than usual, but recently I came across some of my older reflections on maps. As a geographer, I find them interesting, but also find them problematic in that they are often politically loaded … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Exploration, Just interesting, Maps
Tagged borders, boundaries, cartography, maps, representation, world
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Geography strikes back!
An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal recently which I think hints at one of the many ways geography can contribute to a greater understanding of the world: “If you want to know what Russia, China or Iran will … Continue reading
United Kingdom of McDonalds…..never far from a Big Mac!
A great visualization seen originally on Flowing Data, but created by Stephen von Worley from Data Pointed, shows a map of the UK according to distance needed to travel to the nearest McDonalds. On the isle of Great Britain, proper … Continue reading
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Tagged maps, McDonalds, TNCs, UK, USA, Visualization
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An alternative view of Europe
The artists at alphadesigners have created a range of unusual maps displaying stereotypes of people from across Europe. The image below displays an alternative map of Europe: A whole range of maps can be viewed on the alphadesigner website here.
Watching earthquakes around the world. NOW!
I recently came across a website with a real time global seismic monitor map. It’s really interesting to see what levels of tectonic activity are happening around the world at any time. There are also links to a variety of … Continue reading
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Tagged Earthquakes, maps, seismic, tectonics
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