http://www.worldmapper.org/ Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. This newsfeed brings you the latest from Worldmapper. (c) Copyright SASI Group (University of Sheffield)en-en http://feeds.feedburner.com/worldmapper Worldmapper: Our RSS Feed can now also be subscribed via Feedburner: http://feeds.feedburner.com/worldmapper http://thirdangeluk.blogspot.com/2010/02/true-stories-of-fake-things.html Worldmapper is collaborating with Sheffield-based performance group Third Angel on the project What I Heard About The World. They are looking for stories for this, which we would like to support here. This is their call for contributions: "We’re looking for true stories of fake things. Not hoaxes, or cons, or ghost stories. Fakes or replicas used in everyday life, instead of the real thing. We’re interested in modern-day soldiers playing Medal of Honour when they are off duty. Plastic ducks and other toy animals being used to map ocean currents as they traverse the globe. Wallpaper with lifesize pictures of your friends on, TV broadcasts of open fires, cardboard cut-outs of soldier-dads who are away at war, a spherical planet (mis-)represented on a flat page, chocolate flavour coating, CDs that make it sound like someone else is home doing house work. The inauthentic used in the everyday. Facsimiles, replicas, stand-ins and simulacra. If you have any stories, anecdotes, thoughts, facts, pointers… any ideas, in fact, that the theme triggers for you, we would love to hear them. What I Heard About The World is a collaboration with the excellent Portuguese company mala voadora, and a co-production with Sheffield Theatres, Teatro Maria Matos and the Pazz Performing Arts Festival. We're also excited to be Worldmapper.org on the project, too. We’ll be working together for three weeks in April, and showing a work in progress at Pazz and then at Sheffield Theatre’s Forge Festival in May. Then more work over the summer and into the autumn, before opening in Sheffield in October, and touring to Lisboa in November. If you’d like to help us out with a contribution, please contact Third Angel (http://www.thirdangel.co.uk) or comment on their blog at http://thirdangeluk.blogspot.com." http://benhennig.postgrad.shef.ac.uk/?p=330 Worldmapper: We created a worldmapper map from the current distribution of the Olympic medals. More at http://benhennig.postgrad.shef.ac.uk/?p=330 http://www.slideshare.net/GeoSaSI/hello-world-worldmapper-for-kids Worldmapper: We created a slideshow that aims at making the worldmapper maps more understandable to our younger viewers. The presentation is online at Slideshare and we recommend downloading the original file to see all the nice little animations building up on the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/GeoSaSI/hello-world-worldmapper-for-kids http://www.slideshare.net/GeoSaSI/remapping-the-worlds-population Worldmapper: A new slideshow illustrates a technical paper presented at last year's ESRI UC in San Diego, explaining the creation of our gridded country cartograms: http://www.slideshare.net/GeoSaSI/remapping-the-worlds-population Worldmapper: The exhibition Worldmapper has launched its foray into the Balearic schools and has been warmly welcomed by teachers and pupils. Two documents from this event are available for download at our website. Opening panel: http://www.worldmapper.org/files/acib_intro.pdf - Didactic guide: http://www.worldmapper.rog/files/acib_guia.pdf http://www.slideshare.net/GeoSaSI/yet-another-population-cartogram-how-to-create-gridded-population-cartograms Worldmapper: A short slideshow demonstrates the basic principles of creating gridded cartograms as shown in our country cartograms (http://www.worldmapper.org/countrycartograms/): http://www.slideshare.net/GeoSaSI/yet-another-population-cartogram-how-to-create-gridded-population-cartograms http://www.slideshare.net/GeoSaSI/why-are-inequalities-in-health-greater-now-than-at-any-times-since-the-1920s Worldmapper: Why are inequalities in health greater now than at any times since the 1920s? Thoughts on this question are presented in the slideshow which again features a series of Worldmapper maps: http://www.slideshare.net/GeoSaSI/why-are-inequalities-in-health-greater-now-than-at-any-times-since-the-1920s http://www.slideshare.net/GeoSaSI/preparing-for-peak-population-how-the-uk-fits-within-world-demography Worldmapper: Our latest slideshow focuses on population development and puts the UK into perspective within global and European trends: "Preparing for "Peak Population": how the UK fits within world demography" is shown at Slideshare and can also be downloaded there: http://www.slideshare.net/GeoSaSI/preparing-for-peak-population-how-the-uk-fits-within-world-demography http://twitter.com/worldmapper Worldmapper: In addition to our RSS-Newsfeed, we will put the latest worldmapper news now also into our Twitter Newsfeed which you can subscribe to here: http://twitter.com/worldmapper http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/89545 Worldmapper: If you do use the latest version 3.6 of Firefox, you can enhance your browsing experience by dressing your browser with our new Worldmapper Personas Theme: http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/89545 http://www.slideshare.net/GeoSaSI/world-inequality-and-resources-thinking-outside-the-goldfish-bowl Worldmapper: We have put up another slideshow featuring a bunch of worldmapper maps. The presentation titled "World inequality and resources: thinking outside the goldfish bowl" is shown at Slideshare and can also be downloaded there: http://www.slideshare.net/GeoSaSI/world-inequality-and-resources-thinking-outside-the-goldfish-bowl http://www.slideshare.net/GeoSaSI/if-lions-could-talkattempts-at-mapping-over-the-borders Worldmapper: We have created a slideshow showing the recently added language maps in a journey around the world, presenting the most spoken first languages and some related facts. The slideshow is online at Slideshare and can also be downloaded there: http://www.slideshare.net/GeoSaSI/if-lions-could-talkattempts-at-mapping-over-the-borders http://benhennig.postgrad.shef.ac.uk/?p=174 Worldmapper: Following high demand we created some more recent maps on the carbon dioxide emissions. Besides the worldmapper features in this (http://www.worldmapper.org/textindex/text_pollution.html) you can now find a series of maps at http://benhennig.postgrad.shef.ac.uk/?p=174 http://www.worldmapper.org/countrycartograms/ Worldmapper: A new series of maps on population is available. The new maps are projecting the population of each territory onto an equal grid and show the territory's shape according to its population distribution. http://www.worldmapper.org/extraindex/text_religion.html Worldmapper: A new series of maps on the subject of Religion is available http://www.worldmapper.org/textindex/text_exploitation.html Worldmapper Maps 347-356 (relating to exploitation) are now available. Apologies for the delay with these. http://www.worldmapper.org/textindex/text_communication.html Worldmapper Maps 329-346 (relating to communication) are now available. Apologies for the delay with these. http://www.worldmapper.org/textindex/text_depletion.html Worldmapper Maps 309-328 (relating to depletion) are now available. Apologies for the delay with these. http://www.worldmapper.org/textindex/text_pollution.html Worldmapper Maps 295-308 (relating to pollution) are now available. Apologies for the delay with these. http://www.worldmapper.org/textindex/text_violence.html Worldmapper Maps 279-294 (relating to violence) are now available. Apologies for the delay with these. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_destruction.html Worldmapper Maps 267-278 (relating to Destruction) are now available. Apologies for the delay with these. The rest will be following over the next few weeks. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_death.html Worldmapper Maps 255-266 (relating to Death) are now available. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_disaster.html Worldmapper Maps 245-254 (relating to Disaster) are now available. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_disease.html Worldmapper Maps 228-244 (relating to Disease) are now available. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_health.html Worldmapper Maps 213-227 - relating to Health, plus the HIV prevalence map - are now available. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_education.html Worldmapper Maps 195-212 (relating to Education) are now available. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_housing.html Worldmapper Maps 183-194 (relating to housing) are now available. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_poverty.html Worldmapper Maps 173-182 (relating to poverty) are now available. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_wealth.html Worldmapper Maps 159-172 (relating to wealth) are now available. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_income.html Worldmapper Maps 147-158 (relating to income) are now available. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_work.html Worldmapper Maps 133-146 (relating to work) are now available. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_production.html Worldmapper Maps 121-132 (relating to production) are now available. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_fuel.html Worldmapper Maps 109-120 (relating to fuel) are now available. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_resources.html Worldmapper Maps 101-108 (relating to resources) are now available. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_services.html Worldmapper Maps 93-100 (relating to services) are now available. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_goods.html Worldmapper Maps 57-76 (relating to goods) are now available. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_manufacturers.html Worldmapper Maps 77-92 (relating to manufacturers) are now available. http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/textindex/text_food.html Worldmapper Maps 41-56 (relating to food) are now available.