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Topic: maps
The owners of a once-busy map shop in Sydney have announced it will close down this weekend. <b>Izzy Perko</b> is out of a job -- and lamenting a sign of the digital times.

After maps on tap, taps on maps end a worldwide business

Companies

Mar 23, 2012

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A breakdown of government types and economic prosperity presented on a colour-coded map of the world.

Government types and economic health

Economy

Jul 14, 2010

Google -- everyone's favourite 'frenemy' -- are stirring up trouble again. This time they have embroiled themselves in a long-running geopolitical dispute between India and China. <b>John Gravois</b> investigates.

Google — putting geopolitical disputes on the map

Links

Jul 12, 2010

Hand-drawn maps edit out the unnecessary crap that infiltrate standard atlas maps. <b>Julia Turner</b> presents a beautiful selection of hand-drawn maps from computer instructions drawn by a grandmother to the best way to avoid a tollway.

Why hand-drawn maps are better than Google

Art & Design

Apr 30, 2010

Which countries around the world are being denied a sweet slice of American economic pie -- and why?

US trade bans around the world

North America

Apr 14, 2010

97% of the world's water supply is salty, and 2% is frozen. So where is the 1% we can actually use to keep the planet alive? Have a play with <em>National Geographic</em>'s great infographic.

INTERACTIVE MAP: The world’s fresh water supply

Environment

Apr 08, 2010

A beautiful and brillians data visualisation of how four classic stories -- Pygmalion, Faust, Oedipus and Leviathan -- have been written and rewritten in different countries and eras.

The evolution of four fables

Art & Design

Mar 25, 2010

<b>Joel Pobar</b> has done some impressively nerdy things with data from the My Schools website to create heat-maps of where Australia's top schools are located.

Creating “smart school” heat-maps with My School data

Federal

Feb 06, 2010

Microsoft has fired the latest shot in the search engine wars, launching its own map service to compete directly with Google Maps. Bing Maps lets users view satellite maps in 3D, and integrate apps like Twitter to overlay extra data.

Microsoft vs. Google, round 567: Bing Maps launched

Digital

Dec 03, 2009

It's Thanksgiving in the US, giving Americans a chance to do what they do best: eat. The <em>NYT</em> has mashed-up search data from <em>Allrecipes.com</em> with a map to see what different parts of the country will be cooking.

MAP: What are Americans cooking for Thanksgiving?

Food & Travel

Nov 27, 2009

We tend to think of China as one big monolithic empire, but in fact, it is more like nine very distinct and different regions, each with its own character and history. <b>Patrick Chovanec</b> redraws and rethinks the traditional map of China.

The nine nations of China

Asia-Pacific

Nov 17, 2009

A great (if a little grim) interactive map shows how the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/06/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange">predicted</a> 4C rise in global temperature by 2050 will affect the planet in areas like sea levels, marine life, wildfires, drought and farming.

This is your planet, 4C later

Environment

Oct 29, 2009

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