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The map is generated from an archive of all the geo-located articles for a number of languages.

We've mapped 2012 first-quarter presidential campaign contributions in Minnesota. Each dot on the map represents a $20 contribution to a candidate, grouped by ZIP codes. Hover your mouse over an area to see the breakdown of contributions to each candidate.

Visualizing Presidential Campaign Contributions Throughout Minnesota

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During the late sixteenth century, a few cartographers designed and published a handful of maps with anthropomorphic countries and continents, with animal as well as human forms.

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An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us--energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future.

This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US.

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The Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center created this beautiful animation called Perpetual Ocean which visualizes the ocean's surface currents over a 30-month period between June 2005 and December 2007.

"...map charts the geography of wage inequality. It's based on a measure of wage inequality developed by Stolarick that compares the wages of those in lower skill service and manufacturing employment to those higher skill knowledge, professional, and creative jobs across U.S. metros. (For my technically-inclined readers, the measure is based on the Theil Index)."

The Inequality of American Cities

The Geography of Government Benefits

Anyone who travels the country knows its complexities cannot be explained with "red" and "blue" or by large regional identities. Patchwork Nation uses data and reporting to identify and study 12 different kinds of American county.

http://patchworknation.org/

http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/

Superfund Map

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American mapmaking's most prestigious honor is the "Best of Show" award at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. The five most recent winners were all maps designed by large, well-known institutions: National Geographic (three times), the Central Intelligence Agency Cartography Center, and the U.S. Census Bureau. But earlier this year, the 38th annual Best of Show award went to a map created by Imus Geographics--which is basically one dude named David Imus working in a farmhouse outside Eugene, Ore.

The College of William & Mary and the Minnesota Population Center are pleased to announce the launch of the new School Attendance Boundary Information System (SABINS) website. SABINS is a project funded by the National Science Foundation to assemble, harmonize, and disseminate GIS data for grade-specific school attendance boundaries embedded within school districts throughout the United States.

http://www.sabinsdata.org/

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369,629 people died on America's roads between 2001 and 2009. Following its analysis of UK casualties last week, transport data mapping experts ITO World have taken the official data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - and produced this powerful map using OpenStreetMap. You can zoom around the map using the controls on the left or search for your town using the box on the right - and the key is on the top left. Each dot represents a life.

"The Geospatial Platform provides shared and trusted geospatial data, services, and applications for use by government agencies, their partners and the public"

The Minnesota Population Center is pleased to announce the release of the new National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) website, including:

A redesigned front page providing access to new FAQs, user guides and data documentation
A redesigned data extract system that allows users to:
download multiple years of data in one extract
download multiple geographic levels (states, counties, etc.) in one extract
constrain or expand data searches flexibly by specifying any combination of geographic levels, years, topics, or datasets
The new site also provides Census 2010 Redistricting Data with corresponding 2010 shapefiles. More
new data from the American Community Survey and 2010 Summary File 1 will be added throughout the
year.

Explore the new site now!