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10 Jun

Map of the Week: Peacewalls in Belfast

By Nina Edward This map, from the Peacewall Archive, shows where peace walls in Belfast are still up in 2017. The Troubles was a period of violent conflict from 1969-1998 in Belfast between paramilitary groups and the British military over...
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4 Jun

Map of the Week: PEATMAP

By Samantha Hinton PEATMAP is an improved global peatland map by Xu et al, 2018. With peatlands’ significant role as carbon sinks within the global carbon cycle, continuing to study and map their extent and distribution will be crucial for...
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28 May

Company Spotlight: TeachOSM

When OpenStreetMap was created in 2004, the world of open geospatial data was a new frontier for the discipline of geography. Now it serves as a ubiquitous and powerful framework used all over the world to respond to humanitarian disasters,...
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27 May

Map of the Week: Global Military Spending

by James Mallinson Visual Capitalist has shared this image by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute giving a visual illustration on relative expenditures by the world’s biggest military spenders. As Visual Capitalist notes, the world’s relatively declining global and international...
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25 May

Geographical Review Preview: What Are the Impacts of COVID-19 on Small Businesses in the U.S.? Early Evidence based on the Largest 50 MSAs

By: Qingfang Wang & Wei Kang What is the main purpose of your study? As of 2019, small businesses accounted for 99.9% of U.S. firms, employed 47.5% of all U.S. workers, and generated 1.9 million net new jobs. Their resilience and...
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20 May

Map of the Week: Vintage/3D Hybrids by Sean Conway

by James Mallinson My Modern Met has shared the work of cartographer and ortho-imaging specialist Sean Conway, and it truly is stunning. Conway uses publicly-available high resolution scans of vintage maps then takes modern elevation data from scientific databases and...
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13 May

Map of the Week: Highest Earning Podcasts by Country

By Nicole Oveisi Top Dollar recently put out a study tracking the most popular podcasts around the world (with available data) through a series of infographic maps. As podcasts gain unprecedented popularity among the broader media landscape, these maps give...
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11 May

Geographical Review Preview: Young People’s Visions for Life in the Countryside in Latin America

By: A. Cristina de la Vega-Leinert, Julia Kieslinger, Marcela Jiménez-Moreno, and Cornelia Steinhäuser What is the main purpose of your study? Our research brings together perspectives from four independently conducted studies in rural Latin America, namely Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Mexico. We...
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6 May

Map of the Week: The Subnational Human Development Index

By Nicholas Schmidt The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical tool used to measure the social and economic dimensions of a nation or region. The three key measures used in the HDI are life expectancy, access to education (years...
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29 Apr

Company Spotlight: Black Cape

By: Arden Benner The American Geographical Society is the oldest professional geographical organization in the United States; dedicated to the comprehensive advancement of geographic thinking in business, government, society, and education. In the almost seventeen decades since our conception, we’ve...
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