http://asheepnomore.net/2013/12/29/40-maps-will-help-make-sense-world/

1. Where Google Street View is Available

2. Countries That Do Not Use the Metric System

5. McDonald’s Across the World

6. Paid Maternal Leave Around the World

7. The Most Common Surnames in Europe by Country

8. Worldwide Driving Orientation by Country

9. Map of Time Zones in Antarctica

12. Visualizing Global Population Density

17. US Map of the Highest Paid Public Employees by State

18. World Map of Earthquakes Since 1898

21. World Map of Vegetation on Earth

28. Worldwide Annual Coffee Consumption Per Capita

31. Earth’s Population by Latitude and Longitude

Types of Maps

Choropleth

Statistics

Thematic

Dot Distribution

Proportional Arrows or Circles

Political

Relief

Cartograms

Density

Political Map

Physical Map (Relief)

Dot Distribution Map

Choropleth Map

Choropleth Map

Choropleth Map

Choropleth Map Population Density

Isoline Map contours

Isoline Map contours

Isoline Map Temperature

Isoline Map - Sea level Air Pressure

Statistics MapProportional Circles

& Pie Graphs

Statistics Map

Statistics Map

Proportional Arrows

Cartogram of ?

Cartogram of ?

Sources of Cartograms

http://www.worldmapper.org

Types of Map Scales

(Linear or Bar Scale)

(RF)

Map Scales

large - small

Large Scale Small Scale

1 : 10,000

Town Plan

(large scale)

Political map of world http://www.worldpress.org/images/maps/world_600w.jpg

Relief Map of Canada http://open-site.org/img/andrewdunning/relief.jpg

Population distribution http://media.maps.com/magellan/images/worldpop.gif

Population change map http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/Maps/ThematicMaps/population/National/pop_chg_3d_colour_e.jpg

Palestinian map: http://www.ipc.gov.ps/alnakba/English/images/Palestine_population_distri.jpg

Kurds map http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/images/dist-kurdish.gif

Air pressure map http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/wx/cwp/prods/current/sfctmpslp/sfctmpslp_N.gif

Temperature map of Australia http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/355/interpolating-70-deg-contou.gif

Contour lines and relief shading http://www.launc.tased.edu.au/online/sciences/physics/cradlesmall.gif

Contour lines http://www.compassdude.com/i/topographic-map.jpg

Adoptees map http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/image.aspx?i=270

Choropleth map Whites in US http://www.neiu.edu/~jrmiller/377-Cartography/JMiller-ChoroplethMap.JPG

Choropleth map adoptees http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/image.aspx?i=270

Cartogram of flights http://www.worldmapper.org/images/largepng/28.png

Cartogram ofchild mortality http://www.worldmapper.org/images/largepng/263.png

Population density map India http://www.mapsofindia.com/census2001/populationdensity.jpg

Proportional Arrow Map http://www.mundi.net/maps/maps_014/august2000_large.gif

Map scales Goreham http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/outreach/images/isnt_that_spatial_scale.jpg

Map scales Atlanta http://go.owu.edu/~jbkrygie/krygier_html/geog_222/geog_222_lo/geog_222_lo04_gr/scale.jpg

Types of scales http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/crs/geog165/images/mapscale.gif

Bennekom map http://geodesie.fol.nl/fig2401.jpg