long ago never published post about mapping or GIS . Recently I ran into a back-spectacular maps, which usually published in Le Monde Diplomatique-English edition exists, but you know that I, translators ...-, especially in Atlas Le Monde Diplomatique , compendiums of maps and articles published about once a year, kiosk, priced between 8 and 15 Euros depending year and volume, and I recommend strongly, well above the Atlas of Santillana Anaya infumables that teachers were trying to force us to buy, they were mere juxtaposition of color Barbapapa.
maps Le Monde Diplomatique, by contrast, are miracles, displays of submission of information to seep into the reader. Leaving
portals not to use the classic Mercator projection, Greenland that makes a huge continent, and as one character says of the Underworld: why no one ever knows who is the regional capital of Greenland? [answer: Nuuk] - and it seems suggest that the southern hemisphere does not matter, in Le Monde Diplomatique Maps show important issues, far above the prehistoric geography of borders and capitals, such as number of genocides per decade, the rate of Dini, number of deaths by accident at such time, the flow of heroin, oil, money, legal, etc.
As I say, the most valuable is not only open our eyes to these issues, but the display design, math, if one believes the latter is a hesitate, read the Peipers explaining the methodology underlying a popular maps Worldmapper, those in which countries depending on something fattening, which is often called cartograms: that technology is nothing less than the theory of Partial Differential Equations of Diffusion, with techniques of Computational Fluid ... What about all that to make a map?! Yes, if they are so useful and spectacular as they - and marketing, because you have to make it attractive to the reader ...
's what I always tell people I work with when to sell something to managers through a presentation: why are you going to be content with the options you proposed default Powerpoint shit, if you have at your disposal thousand free tools free such as Inkscape, which allows vector drawings ... Let's say you have to quickly show where are the country's nuclear plants. The naive approach would be to put red circles, all the same, on a background of the country. Someone a little more clever put a clip of a cooling tower or a radioactive hazard symbol, depending on who you sell it, ... I put a green shamrock, a symbol of nuclear energy in some publications and the scene-that it would take to scan a photo Inkscape clover obtained free network, assuming that the symbol itself is not available, eg Wikimedia Commons , And are free and free, evil that despite these vermin who claim to be artists and collaborate with the SGAE-only union failed, but that's another story - and finally incorporate the country, varying the area of \u200b\u200bthe symbol depending on the energy that would give the plant and the color may vary depending on the time it has been operating ... and also indicate more about the background on the country map, which of course would NOT Mercator projection synonymous with amateur-like total urban population density, or any other cross-index ...
already going pillaging. Not only must know and master a tool not standard-but not impossible, one must have the intuition and the art of knowing what should be emphasized and how to make it a map that will be recorded to the managers to see the map, and others middle managers, died of envy try to cut and paste to put in their own presentations, and here you can do other things, to loosen our name when they put it in their presentations ...-
For such things is what the cartographers of Le Monde Diplomatique-Maps pimps, not stand out from unimaginative executives.
Specifically, the most famous probably Philippe Rekacewicz , who has a blog whose visit recommend, Cartographiques Visions.
"In case anyone was unaware, playing, posing the mouse over and press the left-links underlined in blue, you can access other pages that illustrate the specific point in each case.
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