Here’s a link to an interesting NPR story about scale. It highlights a new map from Frank Jacobs (from the Strange Maps blog) that superimposes a map of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s 1969 moon walks onto a baseball field to better convey the scale involved. Jacobs’ map is actually a re-make of a NASA map that superimposed the moon walk route onto a soccer field (see below).
“What if the world were rearranged so that the inhabitants of the country with the largest population would move to the country with the largest area? And the second-largest population would migrate to the second-largest country, and so on?”
An interesting new map featured on the Strange Maps blog addresses this question.
Congratulations to junior Civil Engineering student Kelsey Meybin for her award-winning map! Kelsey’s map – “Fire Threat in California” – recently won both the People’s Choice Award for Cartography and the Panel of Judges Award for Communications in Higher Education at the National Council for Geographic Education conference. Congratulations to Kelsey for this tremendous achievement!
