Weekend Stack of Maps 3: Antarctica and Blood Rights

A few new maps to get your weekend started in the right 'direction'

What I love most about maps is just how many there are out there. I feel like I could spend an entire lifetime just looking at different maps and the ways people interpret our world. Fortunately for you, I compile my favorites into a single folder all week long which makes it super easy to share them back out. I hope you enjoy this weekend’s stack of maps!

Antarctica

By National Geographic. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that our world is a sphere, and not a flat surface. Most of the times we’re looking at maps, after all, they’re flat. This map reminded me of that, and the fact that there’s no such thing as up or down when it comes to maps.

Blood Rights

By Quartz and @india.in.pixels. I thought this was just a super interesting data set. Really breaks down by hemispheres, eh?

How big is that country really?

Original author unknown. Sort of similar to the first map, but more about the relative size of countries. Depending on what your map projection is, you’ll get wildly different representations. At some point there will be an article on map projections.

Road Suffixes

By erdavis.com. Kind of a pointless map from a data perspective, but I just kind of dig the colors and the simplistic nature of it. For my county (Multnomah County in Oregon), I’m kind of surprised to see “Rd” as the primary suffix. We have so many “Aves” floating around. 🤔

I hope you enjoyed this week’s stack of maps. Another fresh issue of the Map Stack is coming Tuesday with some original maps. This time, I’ve pulled some data on where in the world people can turn right on a red light. Fascinating stuff! See you then!