55% chance that New York joins the EU by July, BTW nice maps!
In case you missed it, some crazy ex KGB guy is prediciting that there is a 45-55% chance that the U.S. will collapse into civil war, and after which the country will split into four regions with left coast going to China, the south going to Mexico, the North to Canada and the east to Europe. Check out the whole article at the Wall Street Journal, and the Off The Map Blog also has an interesting post on it. The latter is the reason it came to my attention… the nice use of maps of course! There is nothing like seeing a lovely picture of your state with the words ‘Will be part of China’ next to it to capture your attention!
If you haven’t already checked it out, go have a look at geocommons.com… it’s a web mapping initiative by a company called FortiusOne which essentially make its easier to work with and display data on map overlays. There are a ton of interesting datapoints (including the crazy KGB guys) that you can search through from the site, to look at various data all from a geographic perspective… like mortgage foreclosures by zip code, wine distribution in the U.S. and my favorite the Top 25 College Football coaches salary map… evidently they take their football very seriously throughout the Texas Republic.
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