My wife's second BookTube video. Please watch.
Hi. I haven't posted in ages but my wife just started a young adult book review channel. Please give it a watch.
Lost dog Perry Hall, MD. I know this isn't a map but my in-laws dog ran off. She's a small terrier mix last seen Sunday May 1 at Honeygo Park. Send me a message if you live in the area and might have seen her.
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URBAN FORESTS: Mapping NYC’s trees
From silver maples to English oak, a web developer from Brooklyn has plotted the location of 600,000 trees from 168 different species across the city’s five boroughs. The interactive map reveals an impressive array of greenery amid high population densities, thereby emphasizing the importance of urban ecology in large cities.
Jill Hubley used official city data to create a visualization of the location of each of the 600,000 trees. The map shows some striking differences in the types of trees across New York, with silver maples popular in Queens but very sparse in Manhattan. Check out the map here!
Source: The Guardian (1 January 2016)
Trying to find a historical map of the area I grew up in to turn into a tattoo. Any of these look reasonable?
This map of Finland’s bear population, created by Finnish designer Annukka Makijarvi, is made up of bears. It’s silly, but it’s still effective in communicating information.
Long before Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke shot and killed a black teenager, sparking a public outcry and now a Justice Department probe into the city’s troubled police department, he had established a track record as one of Chicago’s most complained-about cops.
Since 2001, civilians have lodged 20 complaints against Van Dyke. None were sustained by investigators.
While it may seem surprising that so many complaints against one officer would be tossed out, a Huffington Post analysis of four years of city data released by the Invisible Institute, a nonprofit journalism organization, reveals that there are more than 180 city police officers with more complaints than Van Dyke who weren’t disciplined at all over that time. Most of those complaints were made by black residents, whose allegations of police misconduct are dismissed at nearly four times the rate of complaints filed by whites, HuffPost found.