Just interesting!

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Contact Malcolm at malcolm.mcinerney@thebartonsc.sa.edu.au

* Mapping the personal

Across cultures, people feel increased activity in different parts of the body as their mental state changes.

* Someone’s best maps of 2013

"Some beautiful, information-dense cartography, which provide a moment of self-reflection like a giant, geographic mirror.”  Seth Dixon

* When people try to draw the world

People get the general shape of the world when the draw a map of the world from memory.

* Amazing maps

Maps after maps, some quirky some just plain interesting and useful.

* Where are people exercising

Marvel at these global heat maps of popular cycling and running routes. A glimpse into the geography of elevated heart rates and sweaty pits is now available thanks to Strava, maker of GPS-enabled exercise-tracking gizmos. Over time, the San Francisco-based company has collected a lot of user data. Now it's put the info in play in a giant, visual way, with these global heat maps showing the movements of the hardcore huffing-and-puffing populace. The maps include 77,688,848 rides and 19,660,163 runs for a blink-inducing total of 220 billion data points.

* 25 scariest places on the earth