Often, it’s the simplest of ideas that works. And more often than not, it’s a question posed, that can be answered by a simple map. So if the question is where would you draw a line across England and Wales so that 50% of the population is to the north, and 50% to the south […]
Tag: MOTW
Maps of the Turkey/Syria Earthquakes
On 6th February 2023 two large earthquakes hit southern and central Turkey, and northern Syria. They measured approximately 7.5 and 7.8 on the Moment-magnitude scale, and led to massive loss of life, and property. At the time of writing it’s been a week since these catastrophic events, and the images of destruction, and unbearable loss […]
The last 747
Map of the week for the first week of February 2023 is not really a map in the sense that someone made a map, but the way we saw what emerged from an event was across a map, and the tool of production was pretty impressive. The first few months of 1969 were quite something […]
UK Climate Summary
This fantastic infographic of the 2022 UK climate summary (compared to the previous 30 year aveerages) caught my eye by Neil Kaye. It’s essentially an example of using small multiples where each individual map is really only important in the context of the collection of maps. It’s the sequence that tells the story. The maps […]