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![World Disaster Map Gives You the Big (Terrifying) Picture [Maps]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/d/5/a/1/6/1/f/7/3/4/0f890ca577b5b2d77df793.jpeg) |
World Disaster Map Gives You the Big (Terrifying) Picture [Maps]io9 - Dec 3, 2008 The National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications in Hungary has put together a helpful real-time map of global disasters. In this detail, you can see a series of earthquakes that hit Greece … Also tagged: science, geography, disaster, dystopia, world disaster map, social geography |
![The Curious Art of Science Fiction Road Maps [Mad Cartography]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/a/8/e/e/1/9/2/a/0/4/4f258497216f2ff21e6373.jpeg) |
The Curious Art of Science Fiction Road Maps [Mad Cartography]io9 - Nov 26, 2008 Adrian Leskiw is one of the rarest kinds of science fiction creators: He does his world-building entirely through the medium of road maps. A self-professed road geek, Leskiw creates extremely realistic road systems for … Also tagged: art, geography, world building, mad cartography, adrian leskiw |
![Live Piracy Map Reveals Seas Are Still a Pirate's Paradise [Crimes Of The Future]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/d/a/2/8/4/1/d/b/9/1/11a305289f93afdf8964d5.jpeg) |
Live Piracy Map Reveals Seas Are Still a Pirate's Paradise [Crimes Of The Future]io9 - Nov 20, 2008 Want to know where you're most likely to have your ship hijacked by pirates this year? Now you can, with the help of the International Maritime Bureau's "live piracy map," a Google map mashup that gives you quick … Also tagged: technology, piracy, chart porn, crimes of the future |
![Serenity Map Helps You Plan Your Conquest of the Verse [Serenity]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/b/9/6/9/8/e/d/8/e/3/ecae42f413b8f5c51544ef.jpeg) |
Serenity Map Helps You Plan Your Conquest of the Verse [Serenity]io9 - Nov 19, 2008 The universe of Joss Whedon’s short-lived television series Firefly and movie Serenity contains 215 terraformed planets and moons. Although only a handful of locales could be explored in 14 episodes and one feature … Also tagged: movies, television, firefly, serenity, joss whedon |
![Groundwater Resources of the World Map [Mega Water]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/f/5/3/9/9/4/c/c/e/7/bbd47b6d3114424ca21801.jpeg) |
Groundwater Resources of the World Map [Mega Water]io9 - Nov 14, 2008 As the need for fresh water increases, growing populations across the globe will increasingly turn to groundwater to slake their thirst. But can the planet's supply of groundwater meet our needs? UNESCO's World-wide … Also tagged: environment, resource management, whymap, mega water |
io9 - Sep 10, 2008
One of the unintended consequences of having constant satellite surveillance over every centimeter of the globe is that it's easy to see how governments screw up. Here is a UNOSAT image from a report on the damage done …
Also tagged: politics, war, georgia, surveillance, dystopia
io9 - Aug 4, 2008
Here is a perfect example of a leftist dystopia: A map showing the future United States divided up among alien nations dispatched by a liberal world government. Belgium occupies the U.S. midwest and Russia occupies the …
Also tagged: art, design, alternate history, futurism
io9 - May 14, 2008
Want to find out when your gadgets will start following you around, and how easy it will be for you to do "reality mining" to find your friends by tracking their cell signals on Google maps? Then head out to …
Also tagged: conference, futurism, where 2 0
io9 - Apr 17, 2008
Using telescopes, astronomers have been mapping the surface of Mars in surprising detail for over 100 years. This map of the entire Martian globe, showing everything from Mare Australe to Mare Boreum, was made in 1890 …
io9 - Apr 9, 2008
Nothing like searching for the Enterprise on Google maps and finding it. [Google Maps]
Also tagged: star trek