Geospatial Human Geography
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This paper will address human, political, cultural, historical, and socioeconomic processes in a geospatial and cartographic manner.
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Mapping the Anthropocene

Mapping the Anthropocene | Geospatial Human Geography | Scoop.it

As follow-up to an earlier post about how we have enter the age of the Anthropocene, this stunning map is a fantastic visual representation of the forces that merit the dawning of a new geologic age.  This map depicts the lights at night, major roads, railways power lines, oversea cables, airline routes and shipping lanes.  It also expands the areas according to population size.  For more on the production of this map, see the Globaia website: http://globaia.org/en/anthropocene/

 


Via Seth Dixon, Dot MacKenzie
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Creating American Borders

30-second animation of the changes in U.S. historical county boundaries, 1629 - 2000. Historical state and territorial boundaries are also displayed from 178...

Via Seth Dixon, Susan Grigsby, Cindi Patten
Sam Capron's curator insight, January 30, 3:01 PM

What I find to be the most interesting aspect of this animation is that each fluctuation of the border has a story behind it. You could teach a really interesting class on just those small changes, and why they took place.

Jesse Olsen's comment, March 16, 1:04 PM
Whooooaaaaaaa!!!!
Betty Klug's curator insight, April 27, 3:50 PM

I love animation maps.  Great for getting students interested in learning.