collating maps

[clauclauclaudia]

moominmolly and I came up with the essentially the same map today--I think she beat me to it by a few hours.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/claudia_/63097.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/moominmolly/224551.html

Heaps of interesting maps are being bandied about right now, and Tim Pierce has most of them gathered together at http://www.livejournal.com/users/topaz_munro/36843.html

My hypothetical favorite would still be a purple cartogram by county. One by congressional district would be a start, and there's a cartogram for that at http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/Cartogram_Central/goal.html , but I don't have the necessary data to hand.

I think my favorite existing map is one tinlail pointed me to, which shows votes as color and voter density as lightness/darkness, based on the 2000 election. http://obsidianorder.blogspot.com/2004/10/red-and-blue-mapping-votes.html

I like it so much, it's below the cut. Click to enlarge.

Comments

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

Nice! Your version here looks a lot less like zombie puke than the original.

Purple's still the best though. How can I be sad when everything is purple?

[(Anonymous)]

Hi claudia_, I just did the same map for 2004, check it out and pass it along if you like...



Even more maps here

http://obsidianorder.blogspot.com/2004/11/red-and-blue-reprise-2004.html (http://obsidianorder.blogspot.com/2004/11/red-and-blue-reprise-2004.html)

-Obsidian

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[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

I'm in Hudson, MA at Intel til February or so as a construction scheduler.

Want to meet up some weekend? FuzzyElf's birthday is coming up and the preparations seem to be happening in gweep

[clauclauclaudia]

Hi, sorry I didn't see this sooner.

shadowflyer created the original image. http://www.livejournal.com/users/shadowflyer/31235.html links to the Cafepress store she or he set up.

With shadowflyer's permission, I made the icon.