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28 Dec

Map of the Week: Kiss of the Oceans

By Samantha Hinton This 1931 postcard titled ‘Kiss of the Oceans’ was created to celebrate the powerful creation of the Panama Canal. The original image of the meeting of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as two women looking at each...
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23 Dec

Company Spotlight: CUBIC

By Ruqaiyah Zarook The American Geographical Society recently spoke with Mr. Bradford Powell, Vice President and General Manager of Cubic, a leading technology-driven company providing integrated solutions for transportation and defense to reduce urban congestion and improve militaries’ effectiveness....
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23 Dec

Map of the Week: The Geography of Christmas

By: Abigail Vandenberg Merry Christmas to our AGS readers! The Christmas holiday is filled with traditions and folk stories from diverse geographic backgrounds. Many of the familiar Christmas traditions celebrated today were borrowed and adapted from other cultures. The captions...
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17 Dec

Map of the Week: Average Colors of the USA

By Jessie Woldstad In this map created by Erin Davis, the average colors of the U.S. by county are revealed, showing drastic changes in land cover as seasons pass. Most notably, we see the ways in which some landscapes remain...
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9 Dec

Map of the Week: Mapping Private vs. Public Land in the United States

By Ruqaiyah Zarook Today, private individuals and corporations own approximately 60% of land in the United States. In total, 77 million people own 1.3 billion acres of private land. Additionally, 63% of privately owned lands are farms and ranches, while...
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2 Dec

Map of the Week: How to Map Space

By: Abigail Vandenberg Space launches have become regular programming in our daily lives. Just decades ago a rocket launch could have occupied the headlines for months and attracted thousands of observers. Now it seems launches of all shapes and sizes...
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25 Nov

Map of the Week: Does it Rain? Does it Pour?

By Jessie Woldstad Oftentimes, mapping a common and unassuming phenomenon can reveal beautiful and thought-provoking patterns on the landscape. Precipitation, which is extremely variable depending on location, happens to be one of these cases. In a map created by...
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23 Nov

Company Spotlight: Crowd2Map Tanzania Project

By: Abigail Vandenberg The American Geographical Society had the privilege of meeting with Crowd2Map Tanzania’s founder, Ms. Janet Chapman. Crowd2Map is an entirely volunteer-based mapping project using crowdsourced data to help put rural Tanzania on the map. Since its conception...
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18 Nov

Map of the Week: Thanksgiving Maps

By: Abigail Vandenberg This time next week many of us will be reunited with loved ones and sitting down to share a classic Thanksgiving meal. This week we bring you every map you’ll need for this holiday to answer all...
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11 Nov

Map of the Week: Mapping Global Corporate Tax Rates

By Ruqaiyah Zarook Corporate tax rates around the world in 1980 averaged around 40.11 percent, and 46.52 percent when weighted by GDP. Countries have since recognized that high corporate tax rates have an impact on business investment decisions — so...
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