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“Subways of North America” via xkcd.com/1196
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Metro Map, Pyongyang, North Korea
An interactive metro map from North Korea’s secretive capital. The green buttons across the bottom of the map represent all the stations: press one and the path from your current station to your destination lights up. With just a handful of stations on two lines (and only one interchange), I hardly think many people are going to be overwhelmed by the system’s complexity.
Wikipedia’s article on the Pyongyang Metro is actually a very interesting read: the stations are mostly named thematically (Comrade, Enlightenment, Three Rejuvenations, etc.), while accounts vary as to exactly how many stations foreign visitors to the city can visit — whatever the final number, it seems that they’re mostly limited to the newer, more impressive stations.
(Source: Claude1688/Flickr)
An example of interactive mapping overkill especially for a system with only two lines.
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Map of 2013 World Press Freedom Index based on Reporters Without Borders report and table (use the map here)
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released the 2013 version of its annual Press Freedom Index. I, however, caution on making assumptions on a country based on this index.
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Map of Canada’s 100 largest urban areas (cities / towns / municipalities) based on the 2011 Census by Statistics Canada (use the map here)
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Los Angeles (via Class-Divided Cities: Los Angeles Edition by Richard Florida)
- Purple: where mostly creative workers live
- Red: where mostly service workers live
- Blue: where mostly blue-collared workers live
A “ring” of purple almost surrounds the red, which almost surrounds the blue. The article defines each type of worker.
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“Foggy suburban Toronto” photoset
Frozen Lake Ontario - a part of my “Toronto Harbourfront” photoset.
Map of museums, art galleries and historic sites showing FREE admission for all members of the Ontario Museums Association (OMA).
I created this map in less than 30 minutes. Having some difficulty looking at this PDF list of museums, wondering where in Ontario did all of these places exist, I thought of making a map knowing that BatchGeo could help me do the trick. You can also search the map for city for a list of sites in that city.
(Google Docs whitepaper for the process involved)
Australia - Canberra - National Gallery of Australia (larger / mobile view)
The second indoor street view in as many days!
Netherlands - Amsterdam - Rijksmuseum (larger / mobile view)
Our first indoor street view takes us into the Museum Shop of Amsterdam’s Dutch State Museum.
