Maps with Body Parts
Remember the hand map of the Bay Area? As it turns out, many other cities and regions can be mapped out using body parts. The Atlantic Cities posted a series of these interesting maps- here are some of my personal favorites:
Hand Map of San Francisco
Today’s map features a hand drawn map of the Bay Area in California. Residents use this “map” to quickly point out locations in and around the bay. Folks in Wisconsin and Michigan use their hands to point out areas around the state in a similar way. And a bonus for all our Wisconsin Friends: Credit: …
House Hunting
This interactive map, created by trulia.com, a house and apartment listing site, shows the potential movement of people from different cities around the country. Using search data from their Winter 2012 Metro Mover’s Report, trulia was able to track the popularity of different cities among house hunters. To view which people are looking to move …
Mapping Voices at UC-Berkeley
At UC-Berkeley the incoming freshman class was asked to participate in a project when they arrived on campus: say several sentences in to a recorder. Here is the coverage from KALW News in San Francisco: UC-Berkeley Linguistic Mapping (KALW News) The result is a map and continuing project to map linguistics across the nation. We heard a …
