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The electoral map of every election in U.S. history. I had no idea that Maine and Vermont voted against F.D.R. all four times he was elected. (via a. sullivan) (1) #
10/6/2008

A color-coded map of UFO sightings in the United States. Either aliens don't like the South, the military doesn't conduct R&D tests there, or Southerners aren't obsessed with alien mythology. (17) #
11/1/2007

A drawn map of the siege of Sarajevo by Bosnian-Serbians that lasted for about half of the 1990's. This interested me because I'm in the midst of William Vollmann's essays about his time spent in the various warring areas of former Yugoslavia, depicted in Volume VI of his opus on violence, Rising Up and Rising Down. He spent time holed up with some students in besieged Sarajevo, and described the tanks upon hills literally surrounding the city. Now I see what he means. (1) #
10/17/2007

Men are from Entourage, women are from Sex and the City -- at least according to this map of gender ratios of singles in US cities. Who wants to put forth an explanatory theory for the East/West divide? (8) #
7/7/2007

Informational world maps, where statistics, such as alcohol consumption, determine how large a country appears in the map. (2) #
3/5/2007

City income "donuts." Info-laden income distribution maps of several American cities. I've never been to Phoenix, but it looks very segregated, at least by class. (via kottke) (4) #
7/26/2006

A guide to mob hits in Vegas. Map included. Hey, a mob hit happened less than a mile from my home! (via jk) (0) #
5/10/2006

Italy and Sicily now have their roads marked on Google Maps. The link goes to a map centered on Pezzolo, the village where my parents grew up. (thx, jmay) (8) #
5/5/2006

Use Google Maps to see where sex offenders live in your zip code. 42 states available; Nevada coming in July 2006. I feel bad for those sex offenders who slept with a 16-year-old when they were 18, or those who got caught urinating in public (also a sex offense). (thx, jason) (3) #
12/19/2005

Following the Dollars: find out who in your zip code gave money to which political parties in the 2004 election by looking at a modded Google map. You can actually click on the person's marker and view the donator's name, address, the amount given, and the candidate who received the money. (via pw) (33) #
12/15/2005

Nachoworld writes about the most recent version of the Common Census cultural influence map of the U.S. I wrote about this last month, noting that there wasn't enough data then to get an accurate representation of cultural influence. As Nacho notes, things are looking a lot more accurate. They also have some maps of local influence, such as this one of the New York City area. (16) #
11/28/2005

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