#geographic map

Source: Neatorama Our individual lives are shaped depending on which country we were, when we are born, and what type of environment we are born. With this in mind, we can also say that these same factors also affect our death — or to euphemize it, our life expectancy. This map of America tells

Author: TNW Deals / Source: The Next Web You can follow any number of paths to get from an initial idea through final deliverables on a project. The trick is finding the way that best helps you keep track of all the moving parts to make sure nothing falls through the cracks. For many, a clean,

Source: Futility Closet This unique map will make a lasting impression for good on all who study it. The names of states, towns, railroads, lakes, rivers and mountains are all significant. A copy of this map should be in every home, hotel, railroad station, and public place. It makes an

Author: Jessica Leigh Hester / Source: Atlas Obscura Mapmakers of yore worked hard to remind viewers that a given landscape was much less flat than the paper they were holding. Cartographers employed contours, hachures, and other shading techniques to indicate slopes and varied terrain, and while

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Milanese cartographer named Urbano Monte made a nine-foot-wide circular map of the world in the 1580s, with spectacular attention to detail, which was more accurate than most maps of the time. Instead of centering the earth over his own home, he centered