After my earlier post on using Google Earth to map the past, I received an email from Tim Brixius pointing me to a new Google Earth layer that he has created marrying historical content with existing maps. This particular layer takes the content from a 1940 Guide to the Keystone State and projects it onto…
Tag: Visualizations
Mapping the Past in Google Earth
A Google Earth Community — History Illustrated — has begun putting up some interesting map overlays that merge history and the present in ways that present some interesting possibilities for teachers and students of the past. The largest number of postings in this forum are for very simple maps that just offer a placemark for…
Mapping the World
Last year I wrote about the Worldmapper website—a site that helps users visualize the relationships between different data sets and world geography. In the January/February 2007 issue of The Atlantic, P.J. O’Rourke describes one way that Worldmapper might be used to answer a question about the contemporary world—in this case, how one might use the…
Visualizing Political Polarization
It is a commonplace among political historians and the punditocracy to discuss the polarization of the body politic in societies at various moments. Well, here’s an example of how digital media can be used to visualize the polarization of the American body politic in 2004. Valdis Krebs of orgnet.com (Warning: slow loading site with large…