The Map Scroll

The American Human Development Project has some other tools beyond their Human Development Index that help to make sense of the geography ...

Whilst perusing the interwebs on HPI -related matters, I came across this Wikipedia map of cumulative current account balances from 1980 to...

As promised, here's more on the Happy Planet Index. This is from their map of Europe (note that it uses a different scale than the worl...

The New Economics Foundation has come up with something called the Happy Planet Index that categorizes countries based on their relative ...

Via Good , the Housing and Transportation Affordability Index has some excellent maps for several dozen US metros that pertain to housing, ...

Forbes has an interactive map of manufacturing in the United States: Each of 369 metropolitan statistical areas in the US are represented ...

This report from Science Daily is interesting: Researchers from Oregon State University, NASA and other organizations said today that they ...

The LA Times has a nice interactive map of gay marriage rights by state that shows the many changes that have taken place over the past dec...

I've lately been listening to the KunstlerCast , a podcast about "the tragic comedy of suburban sprawl," featuring James Howar...

The site for the UN's Human Development Report has maps that show the (somewhat) shifting geography of development over the past few de...

All right, forgive me, but it seems that I'm not quite done with this whole human development index thing. I've come across another...

Via Strange Maps , Thumb has this poster which overlays ring roads from around the world: According to Thumb, "This poster is designe...

Yesterday's post reminded me of a question I've had occasion to ask myself: what's the deal with BART? That's the urban rail...

One of my favorite maps that I've covered here has been this map from radical cartography showing the mass transit systems of North Ame...

Well, Justin Wolfers at Freakonomics has now chimed in on the the HDI debate. He refers to Andrew Gelman's observation that the fake d...

Well, well. So my post comparing HDI scores of US states to foreign countries has gone a bit viral. It got picked up by Catherine Rampell a...

Ezra Klein points to a study on global warming (pdf) from the Lancet and University College London. As Ezra notes, one of the many complic...

Andrew C. Revkin points to a UN study on the risk of death from natural disasters around the globe. This is from a map based on the study: ...