George W. Bush's America
The January February Issue of The Atlantic Magazine uses a map of the United States to provide quantifiable changes between 2000 and 2008.
Then and Now: the Bush Years. Click on map for larger image:
Via The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century
Labels: magazines, united states
posted by Cartophiliac @ Wednesday, January 14, 2009
6 Comments
6 Comments:
kinda useless. Not a map...no spatial information.
Thanks for the comment, George. Nice speech tonight.
I'm with Anonymous, though -- I was disappointed to see that they used the form of a map without making an item's position within the map meaningful. All of the individual statistics are interesting enough, but there's nothing particularly cartographic about 'em.
True, but that can be said about many of the "maps" I highlight here.
"...and maps as an element of design."
Just follow the "maps as art" tag: http://cartophilia.com/blog/labels/maps%20as%20art.html
many of those maps are not representational of a specific place, but maps are used to evoke an emotional response.
The authors wanted to emaphasize "Bush's America"... I suppose they could have used an American flag instead of a map of the continental 48...
I like the use of the map of the U.S. to contain the information: it is spatial, as these are American statistics, are they not? They wouldn't work if you imposed them on top of a map of Europe.
The statistics themselves are intriguing, too. Some very different from what I would have expected.
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