{"id":301,"date":"2008-10-11T13:12:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=301"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:52:06","slug":"change-the-world-one-map-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2008\/10\/11\/change-the-world-one-map-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Change the World, One Map at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p>I just found the <a title=\"Show \/World\" href=\"http:\/\/show.mappingworlds.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SHOW \/WORLD<\/a> website using StumbleUpon and had to share it.<\/p>\n<p>With their interactive world map <strong>you<\/strong> <strong>choose the global issue<\/strong>, e.g., Car Ownership, and <strong>they resize the world map so that<\/strong> <strong>the contribution each country makes to the issue is reflected in their size<\/strong>. Not sure what I mean?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a representation of the <strong>death penalty by contributor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/show.mappingworlds.com\/\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">China leads with 470 dealth penalty killings<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Or the <strong>remaining forest area<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russia leads with 808.7 million hectares left<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Unicef, Amnesty and UNESCO among many other contributed data for the site. <strong>Issues covered are quite varied, ranging from Migration to Wind Energy to Tourist Arrivals<\/strong>. It really is quite a fascinating site to poke around on.<\/p>\n<p>And if you have a good idea for a map, <a title=\"Show \/World\" href=\"http:\/\/show.mappingworlds.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SHOW \/WORLD<\/a> is up for suggestions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use this interactive world map to see the biggest contributors to global issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11057,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/11057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}