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Stephane Bilodeau's curator insight,
September 7, 2015 11:29 AM
"It is hard to represent our spherical world on flat piece of paper. Cartographers use something called a "projection" to morph the globe into 2D map. The most popular of these is the Mercator projection. Every map projection introduces distortion, and each has its own set of problems. One of the most common criticisms of the Mercator map is that it exaggerates the size of countries nearer the poles (US, Russia, Europe), while downplaying the size of those near the equator (the African Continent). On the Mercator projection Greenland appears to be roughly the same size as Africa. In reality, Greenland is 0.8 million sq. miles and Africa is 11.6 million sq. miles, nearly 14 and a half times larger.
This app was created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice. It was inspired by an episode of The West Wing and an infographic by Kai Krause entitled "The True Size of Africa"."
Vincent Lahondère's curator insight,
September 3, 2015 4:50 AM
Vous recherchez un site pour pratiquer l'infographie et (ou) la cartographie interactive.
Stephane Bilodeau's curator insight,
August 22, 2015 7:48 AM
Very interesting. Manuel Lima studies how information is organized - connected — into diagrams that illustrate the many unexpected twists of big data.
Patrice Mitrano's curator insight,
June 24, 2015 2:56 AM
Spectaculaire et très fluide (joli rendu de la terre) mais absence de méthodologie à regretter, et d'unités en Y sur les graphiques... |
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CDI Collège Gabriel Rosset's curator insight,
December 4, 2015 3:50 AM
Pour mieux mémoriser, mieux comprendre des informations, notamment statistiques ou géographiques rien de mieux qu’un diagramme, une cartographie ou un schéma explicatif. Rien de mieux qu’une bonne infographie.
GROUPE ISORE's curator insight,
March 29, 2016 6:54 AM
Pour mieux mémoriser, mieux comprendre des informations, notamment statistiques ou géographiques rien de mieux qu’un diagramme, une cartographie ou un schéma explicatif. Rien de mieux qu’une bonne infographie.
MFQM Pays de la Loire's curator insight,
April 1, 2016 4:57 AM
Pour mieux mémoriser, mieux comprendre des informations, notamment statistiques ou géographiques rien de mieux qu’un diagramme, une cartographie ou un schéma explicatif. Rien de mieux qu’une bonne infographie.
cB's curator insight,
June 20, 2015 12:12 AM
La méthode connait plusieurs biais. On peut citer : la couverture incomplète d'OMS, la non prise en compte des angles importants, les changements de toponymie qui font compter deux routes....
source : https://github.com/rory/openstreetmap-bendy-roads |
1 point = 20 migrants !!!