Visualizing The Frightening Power of Nuclear Bombs We have all heard about the massively destructive force that is nuclear weaponry, with the astonishing end of World War II to prove it. The world was caught off guard by the utter destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the U.S. dropped the 15 kiloton Little Boy and 21 kiloton Fat Man. The two Japanese cities were leveled in seconds, killing hundreds of thousands from the initial blast and later radiation poisoning. It would be difficult to call their impact small, but those bombs were only a shadow of the weapons to come. Following the war, with the growing Cold War and nuclear arms race between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S., devastatingly large bombs were introduced, growing in size and destructive power with each year. The pinnacle of nuclear bomb development came with the aptly named Tsar Bomba, which the Russians nicknamed the Kuz’kina Mat (roughly translating to “we will show you”). In case you wanted a better sense of scale, here is a much reduced version of the graphic.
GISS: G.Projector - Global Map Projector G.Projector transforms an equirectangular map image into any of over 125 global and regional map projections. Longitude-latitude gridlines and continental outlines may be drawn on the map, and the resulting image may be saved to disk in GIF, JPEG, PDF, PNG, PS or TIFF form. G.Projector is a cross-platform application that runs on Macintosh, Windows, Linux and other desktop computers. The current version of G.Projector is 1.8, released 2015-09-18. Get G.Projector G.Projector requires that your computer have a Java 7 or 8 runtime environment, or better, installed. Download G.Projector Additional CNO/CNOB overlay files compatible with G.Projector are available from the Panoply software collection of optional "outline overlays". Documentation and Credits Contact If you wish to be notified when new versions of G.Projector are released, if you would like to report a bug, or if you would like to become a G.Projector beta tester, please contact the author, Dr.
Tülays IKT-sida: Visualiserade kartor Visual Storytelling i skolan Projektet syftar till att på ett mer systematiskt sätt tillgängliggöra den kraft som visual storytelling och interaktiva statistikvisualiseringar kan skapa för elever och deras lärare. If it were my home Jämför Sverige med andra länder Länders area Här kan du se visualisering av den "sanna" storleken av olika länder. Worldmapper Världen som du aldrig sett den förut. The True Size of Här kan du se olika länders riktiga storlekar. Atlas for a Changing Planet Cartographie politique Francis Alÿs, The green line La cartographie comme outil de lutte post-coloniale, c’est l’ambitieux projet du duo ‘Le peuple qui manque’ dans l’exposition « Atlas critique » au Parc Saint-Léger (jusqu’au 27 mai). Le fait que la carte ait été un instrument de conquête, de colonisation, et de normativité dans l’expansion des pouvoirs européens (mais sans doute aussi des empires chinois ou ottomans) est posé comme un point de départ, mais on aurait aimé que cette exposition eût été faite en collaboration avec un historien cartographe pour justement montrer ce contrepoint et faire en parallèle un historique de la cartographie comme instrument de pouvoir : il n’est question ici que de contre-pouvoir et non du pouvoir lui-même, et l’affirmation de la cartographie comme ‘matrice idéologique impérialiste’ ne se fait que dans les notes de bas de page du texte de présentation, et non dans les salles de l'exposition. Dommage. Michael Druks, Druksland Physical and Social 15 January 1974, 11.30am
Flex Projector 40 maps that explain the world By Max Fisher By Max Fisher August 12, 2013 Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. So when we saw a post sweeping the Web titled "40 maps they didn't teach you in school," one of which happens to be a WorldViews original, I thought we might be able to contribute our own collection. Some of these are pretty nerdy, but I think they're no less fascinating and easily understandable. A majority are original to this blog, with others from a variety of sources. I've included a link for further reading on close to every one. [Additional read: How Ukraine became Ukraine and 40 more maps that explain the world] Click to enlarge.
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This map of Earth is the most accurate ever produced, and it looks completely different | indy100 Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa claims to have tackled a centuries-old problem - how to draw an oblate spheroid Earth on a flat plane. He claims the above map, called the AuthaGraph World Map, achieves this task. The projection, first created in 1999, frames the world's physical components in a 2D rectangle, attempting to represent their relative sizes as accurately as possible. It does so by dividing the world into 96 triangles, making it a tetrahedron, then unfolding it to become a rectangle. Unlike the traditional Mercator map, made in the 16th century, which overstates the size of northern areas like Greenland and minimizes that of central areas like Africa, the AuthaGraph World Map retains parity of area to a 3D projection. The projection recently won the 2016 good design grand award in Japan, an awards evening founded in 1957 by the Japanese ministry of international trade and industry. Narukawa also gave a Ted talk on his projection in 2011:
Les aliments les plus surconsommés par département - Journal du Net Economie Les Parisiens achètent trois fois plus de caviar et de soupe fraîche que la moyenne des Français mais 68% de desserts glacés en moins. Découvrez les habitudes alimentaires de votre département. Les habitants de la Sarthe (72), département où se trouve Le Mans, achètent 5 fois plus de rillettes que la moyenne des Français mais ne sont en revanche guère amateurs de conserves de viande, de pâtes fraîches ou encore... de caviar. Grâce aux données exclusives de notre partenaire Nielsen, le JDN a établi une carte de France interactive, actualisée en 2014, avec les 10 produits les plus surconsommés et les 10 produits les plus sous-consommés dans chaque département. On remarque ainsi que certains produits ont une consommation très régionale, comme le nougat : +295% dans la Drôme (26), où se trouve Montélimar, et même +445% dans les Alpes de Haute-Provence (04) mais -43% dans la Meuse (55) ou -50% dans le Bas-Rhin (67). Les données nous ont été fournies par Nielsen.
Maps Have Been Lying To You Your Entire Life The truth is that every map tells a lie, but they don’t all lie about the same thing. For example, Mercator projection maps—one of the most common in use today—exaggerate regions far from the equator. The Goode homolosine projection (pictured below) shows continents that are sized appropriately to one another, but with many interruptions and distortions of distance. Image Credit: Strebe / Wikimedia Commons This give-and-take of benefits has been a perennial problem in cartography. One of the most popular projections is the Mercator, but of course, it too has its flaws. However, don’t get the idea that the Mercator is a bad map. Since there is no perfect map for all occasions, your best bet is to pinpoint what you need a map for and then to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each to suit your goal. For some fun facts about the Mercator map, watch the BuzzFeedBlue video below. Read this next: Neanderthals Used Eagle Talons to Make Jewelry Photo Gallery