Map and article by: Nicholas Schmidt Coffee is produced, exported, imported, and consumed across the entire globe. This map shows the world’s top 25 consuming countries (shown in shades of brown) alongside the top 25 producing countries (shown in shades...
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By: Kelly Young Happiness is something that isn’t often associated with geography. However, geography plays a larger role in our daily happiness than we likely assume, influencing political tensions, diets and lifestyles. A map published by Visual Capitalist uses data...
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By Christina Lin Valentine’s Day is an eventful holiday that usually involves a lot of spending. 58 million pounds of chocolate are bought during Valentine’s Day week. Even with the COVID-19 pandemic, Valentine’s Day spendings on candy still managed to...
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by: Nicholas Schmidt Over 250 years ago, in colonial Philadelphia, James Nevil published William Scull’s 1770 map depicting the extensive frontier of the Province of Pennsylvania. Scull was an American cartographer and officer during the Revolutionary War. The Penn brothers...
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By Christina Lin Last week Monday, the US observed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a day where most reflect on the work that still needs to be done for racial equality. King was a civil rights leader, best known for...
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By: Kelly Young Transportation emissions are a major contributor to global greenhouse gasses and are largely responsible for increasing atmospheric concentrations of CO2. The New York Times published an interactive map depicting auto-emissions from passenger and freight traffic across the...
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By: Nicholas Schmidt   Reuters recently published a map, accompanied by graphics, of the travel routes of Antarctica’s  icebergs. Detailed in blue are the paths that icebergs follow after breaking away from the continent.  One iceberg, in this case, is...
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By Katie Cann When the COVID-19 pandemic had taken hold in the United States, Bloomberg’s CityLab launched a competition for its readers: create the map that defines your life during the coronavirus crisis. The original call went out in April,...
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By Nicole Oveisi Located in the central Pacific Ocean, the Republic of Kiribati is a remote island nation comprising 33 islands. The islands are spread out along the equator covering a large portion of the Pacific, however if you were...
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By Conor White Map Your Idea is an exciting platform that brings the general public a way to easily create crowdsourced and community maps. The idea began when four friends produced a crowdsourced map of socially distant trick-or-treat spots in...
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