Mark Newman (University of Michigan), Carlo Ratti (MIT) and Katy Börner (Indiana University) are leading scientists who have recently developed new ways to communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale.
About the first link (www.worldmapper.org), I think it is very interesting. As it is known, it is impossible to have a map that can perfectly show our Earth (it is not possible to "spread" a spherical surface on a flat surface without stretching or cutting it): this is one of the reason why there are many variations about maps, depending on what area you want to highlight or which characteristic you want to preserve. This idea, whether new or old, of using the area of the countries as an indicator for some "size" are useful to understand the relative impact of countries, in an easy and fast way to understand.
To connect two topics of this blog, look at this map: http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=240. It's about alcohol consumption (so it can be related to wine, there is no specific map, unfortunately): very easy to understand what are the most important markets, don't you think?
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What are these "new ways to communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale"?
I've already seen distorted maps like the Newman's one something like 8 years ago.
Ratti's pics are very nice but I think that these picture are more artistic pictures, rather than being innovative...
I can't see any link to the Borner' output.Please help me.
I cannot understand the pictures too..
About the first link (www.worldmapper.org), I think it is very interesting. As it is known, it is impossible to have a map that can perfectly show our Earth (it is not possible to "spread" a spherical surface on a flat surface without stretching or cutting it): this is one of the reason why there are many variations about maps, depending on what area you want to highlight or which characteristic you want to preserve.
This idea, whether new or old, of using the area of the countries as an indicator for some "size" are useful to understand the relative impact of countries, in an easy and fast way to understand.
To connect two topics of this blog, look at this map: http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=240.
It's about alcohol consumption (so it can be related to wine, there is no specific map, unfortunately): very easy to understand what are the most important markets, don't you think?
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