unconsumption:

Artist Ed Fairburn uses old maps as canvases for his large-scale portraits.

(spotted on Colossal here) 

Find more map reuse examples in earlier Unconsumption posts here

(via fuckyesmaps)

WHAT. Can I live here? 

(Source: nikitaadevonn, via fuckyesmaps)

Map of the Day: Soda vs. Pop vs. Coke

Coke Country represent.

(via SAN FRANCISCO mapcut by studiokmo on Etsy)

Sweet! Also I’m so excited to go!(!!!)

(via fuckyesmaps)

This is the Connected States of America

This is what our state lines might look like if we drew them based on who actually talks with each other, at least according to cell phone data gathered by MIT. These are the geographic clusters of who texts with whom within an area, from the MIT Senseable City Lab’s Connected States of America mapping project.

Do you live in a food desert? 

The USDA has released a map of what they deem to be food deserts, which are 

“places where there is ‘low income’ and ‘low access’—or places where at least a fifth of the population lives at or below the poverty line and where there isn’t a supermarket within a one-mile radius (or within a 10-mile radius in rural areas). All things told, about 13.5 million people nationwide have little or no access to stores selling healthful food.”

My favorite toy of the day the USDA’s interactive Food Environment Atlas which maps such things as ethnic and socio-economic demographics, access to food, health, and food assistance programs. It’s pretty depressing, but really interesting to play around with the patterns (i.e. the Gulf/Atlantic coast area being top in almost every negative statistic). 

(via Good.is)

10 Most Segregated Urban Areas in America

#1 - New York