The most excellent Tumblr of the Sunlight Foundation
Google Maps shows how we spent summer 2012
In the blink of an eye, summer is coming to an end. It feels like it was just yesterday that I was planning out all my summer activities as I eagerly awaited the start of long, sunny days and warm nights.
Before we approach the official end of summer on September 21, our Google Maps team thought it’d be fun to see how those of us in the Northern Hemisphere have spent the dog days. To do this, we reviewed the summer search activity on maps.google.com in several countries between the end of May and the beginning of September. Within each country, a look at some of the top-rising searches and the often-searched landmarks on Google Maps gives us a sense of how people around the world spent their summers.
Respect your elders?
The Economic History of the Last 2,000 Years in 1 Little Graph
I’m guessing that your first question, if you started scanning from the left, is: Wait, India was by far the biggest economy at the dawn of AD? Yup, India.
In Year 1, India and China were home to one-third and one-quarter of the world’s population, respectively. It’s hardly surprising, then, that they also commanded one-third and one-quarter of the world’s economy, respectively.
Stepping up our India chart game.
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A linguistic map of Southeast Asia circa 1992.
Who goes to prison?
Maps of Indian States as Countries: GDP, GDP Per Capita, and Population
The Economist has taken a page from Strange Maps’ US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs map. The magazine has created three maps comparing each Indian states’ GDP, GDP per person, and population to equivalent countries. The results reveal interesting and somewhat shocking insights into the world’s tenth largest economy in terms of GDP.
