Platial News and Neogeography

UNESCOs Aquafir Map

New Scientist reports:

What the UNESCO map reveals is just how many aquifers cross international borders. So far, the organisation has identified 273 trans-boundary aquifers: 68 in the Americas, 38 in Africa, 155 in Eastern and Western Europe and 12 in Asia.

Each trans-boundary aquifer holds the potential for international conflict – if two countries share an aquifer, pumping in one country will affect its neighbour's water supply.

You can download a pdf of the map from the link above.

Election Hackability Map

Sure it's oversimplified, and sure it doesn't take varying procedures into account, but this map of state by state voting technology does bring me around to the question, when will we just do this open source?

Seeing Things

http://www.animalsontheunderground.com

Mapping Mars, Giovanni Schiaparelli

Here is an interesting connection between the early observations of a cartographer of Mars and the obsession we human's have had ever since with martians.

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