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maphugger:

Laconic History of The World (2012)

My first attempt at a typographic map. Don’t be content with the shrunken version up there: this thing is pretty dang sprawling: I’ve prepped a mind-boggling 12,500 pixel wide version you can enjoy exploring:

http://hugepic.io/d2012641f/3.00/57.89/9.67

This map was produced by running all the various countries’ “History of _____” Wikipedia article through a word cloud, then writing out the most common word to fit into the country’s boundary. The result is thousands of years of human history oversimplified into 100-some words.

I’ve also prepared a reader’s companion to highlight a few of the more interesting findings. Read it here.

It’s interesting how in general first world countries are characterized by war and second and third world countries by their colonizers and past political systems.

(via fuckyeahcartography)

5 months ago

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   This is just the coolest thing.

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    WAR, WAR,WAR,WAR

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    I really like that, especially

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    This is fascinating and insightful, but I’d...interested in seeing

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