Category Archives: Maps

What Google Maps Doesn’t Show You | ARTE.tv Documentary

Posted on March 29, 2025 by agogo22

18 Mar 2025 #artetvdocumentary #maps Many people using Google maps to navigate urban spaces. But what if we could reinvent maps to show us more than just the fastest route from A to B? Counter-cartography seeks to challenge our utilitarian … Continue reading →

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NASA’s “Climate Spiral” depicting global temperature variations since 1880-2024

Posted on January 18, 2025 by agogo22
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How big is Australia

Posted on January 12, 2025 by agogo22
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This is a map of internet fibre optic cables at the bottom of the world’s oceans.

Posted on November 26, 2024 by agogo22
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Earths gravity isn’t the same everywhere #space #astronomy #nasa #shorts

Posted on November 18, 2024 by agogo22
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Magnetic North is now drifting faster than 30 miles per year. It had moved away from the geological north and now set to move past it in the opposite direction

Posted on November 17, 2024 by agogo22
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Some real map porn – roads of the Roman Empire.

Posted on September 24, 2024 by agogo22
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Should We Rearrange the World’s Borders According to Nature?

Posted on September 7, 2024 by agogo22

How would we decide the boundaries? In this video, we explore who drew the first lines on a map and said “Everything within them is ours”. And why rearranging the world’s borders according to nature could help us solve many … Continue reading →

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Thread of cool maps you’ve (probably) never seen before

Posted on August 7, 2024 by agogo22
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The Babylonian Map of the World with Irving Finkel | Curator’s Corner S9 Ep5

Posted on August 2, 2024 by agogo22

The Babylonian map of the world is the oldest map of the world, in the world. Written and inscribed on clay in Mesopotamia around 2,900-years-ago, it is, like so many cuneiform tablets, incomplete. However, Irving Finkel and a particularly gifted … Continue reading →

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