Comments on: They’re Watching Us

By: Martin F

Martin F — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:46:35 +0000

I loved your critique, very amusing.

One problem you omitted — easy to do when there are so many — “Map of …”

If you have to tell readers that “this is a map” by including the word “map” in the title, it’s probably a bad map.

By: The Uncanny Valley of Color « Cartastrophe

The Uncanny Valley of Color « Cartastrophe — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:08:15 +0000

[...] On a world reference map. I’ve said this before, but I will repeat: Mercator is great if you’re a navigator, especially one in 16th century [...]

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:56:10 +0000

Oh, and one other thing: Black has the obvious disadvantage that you sometimes can’t really distinguish two neighbouring countries. Or can you see the border between Russia and China, or Thailand and Malaysia?

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:48:57 +0000

What’s going on in Indochina? Is my eyesight so weak or are Vietnam and Laos under water?

By: Bowling Ball Stories « Cartastrophe

Bowling Ball Stories « Cartastrophe — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:23:31 +0000

[...] also my friend Daniel’s comment on one of my earlier [...]

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General Hospital (Blackadder) » Blog Archive » Walchensee — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:01:49 +0000

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By: Yvette

Yvette — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:31:24 +0000

PS. Could you change your stylesheet so links in the comments are visible?

By: Yvette

Yvette — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:30:34 +0000

This reminds me of my favorite West Wing episode where CJ is told about how Mercator maps promote social inequality and should be replaced by the Peters projection. It's available on Youtube.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:41:30 +0000

I spent most of a recent weekend in airports and, as a result, heard frequent reminders that the national terror alert level is ‘orange’. Umm…does that mean I should be watching out for oompa-loompas? Or maybe pumpkins? Not particularly helpful. A quick google search shows that the levels go Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange, Red. Each of these has a term attached to it (Low, Guarded, Elevated, High, Severe) which I find much more useful, but still somewhat vague. For example, is high worse than elevated? Ultimately, this system and the map above suffer from trying to encode ordinal data with something that is more inherently categorical.

By: nasroldagreat

nasroldagreat — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:13:56 +0000

nice article..really have a lot of information