Global differences pictured…

Posted on | March 17, 2007 | 2 Comments

The blog Cottleston Pie pointed me towards a very interesting site called Worldmapper – “The world as you’ve never seen it before” reads the strapline – and it’s right!

This site offers world maps that have been distorted for each region to represent differences across a wide range of parameters – more than 300 maps can be viewed covering education, health, services, food, violence, pollution, communication and a whole pile of others (some categories are still blank but, I presume, are work in progress). I offer three examples here to show how it works.

But go see for yourself…..

“Girls Not at Primary School” Â© Worldmapper

“Spending on Secondary Education” Â© Worldmapper

“Growth in Spending on Secondary Education” Â© Worldmapper
Take a look at the USA on this metric!

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Category: development, education, globalization, society

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2 Responses to “Global differences pictured…”

Neil Winton
March 17th, 2007 @ 11:47 pm

Thanks for this link… or rather… bum! There goes another night!

Ths is a phenomenal resource for all sorts of subjects. I am really interested to see what the Internet access maps will be like (they’re not posted yet), but I’m also delighted at the incidental info at the sides of the maps (I’ve just been looking at Musical Instrument import/exports…

Now, if only they could do a map for Scots abroad!
Nathan Lamothe
March 18th, 2007 @ 6:18 pm

Thanks John!

One of our teachers is in the process of printing a bunch of the .pdf posters (which contain even more information on each map) and setting up a bulletin board of them in her room.