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2010: Mapped

2010: Mapped

I have selected 12 maps that capture some of the biggest, most interesting, exciting or newsworthy events over the past year, mainly from the UK. January has a bonus map at the expense of March (I couldn’t think of anything). This list is entirely my own and I am sure people will have plenty of ...

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Wikileaks Map: US List of Critical Sites

Wikileaks Map: US List of Critical Sites

Yesterday’s release detailing sites considered “critical” to the US is of much interest to political scientists. Just who does the US rely on most? A group of us from UCL Geography, Political Science and CASA teamed up to do some data cleaning and mapping of yesterday’s leak and we have produced the map below. It ...

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Halloween Surname Map

Halloween Surname Map

Just for a bit of fun, I have produced a map of the places you are most likely to meet someone with a “scary” surname. I have only thought of a few off the top of my head (Bat, Death, Devil, Fear, Fright, Ghost, Halloween, Skeleton and Witch), but it looks like the Bristol area ...

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Harry Beck Inspired Maps

Harry Beck Inspired Maps

This past week I have come across a few original interpretations of Harry Beck’s classic London Underground Map. The Threadless clothing website has thrown up a couple. The first is of my favorites  and is a Middle Earth Metro map. The second from threadless is a map of the Metropolitan Cardiac Authority Transport Routes: Continuing ...

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Making Maps with R

Making Maps with R

***This tutorial has been updated, please click here*** I frequently use R (a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics) for data analysis.  As almost all my data are spatial it is often good to produce a map of the results without having to export the data into another GIS package. I am often ...

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