I loved the soccer-field-meets-moon-walk map, but this one blows my mind. npr: Attention cartography geeks! NPR’s Robert Krulwich takes a looks at websites that let you superimpose maps on top of each other to compare the relative size of various things. For example, what would the dimensions of the gulf oil spill look like if it were superimposed on the US east coast? Or how many big countries could you fit into all of Africa?
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I loved the soccer-field-meets-moon-walk map, but this one blows my mind.

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Attention cartography geeks! NPR’s Robert Krulwich takes a looks at websites that let you superimpose maps on top of each other to compare the relative size of various things. For example, what would the dimensions of the gulf oil spill look like if it were superimposed on the US east coast? Or how many big countries could you fit into all of Africa?

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    This is kind of crazy and awesome.
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    AFRICA IS HUGE. In most maps, the scale is off because cartographers are trying to put a globe on to a 2D surface....
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