Foreign Policy's Tuesday Map Blog

Mookie came across a cool blog run by the Foreign Policy journal that features a new map every Tuesday. The maps cover not only mash-ups but also print cartography and all have a foreign policy angle of some sort. Since F1 spun out of GMU’s School of Public Policy it is very encouraging to see maps playing such a prominent role in arguably the top tier policy journal.

The breadth of maps and cartographic approaches is quite impressive. Everything from this nice cartographic map of crime in Leeds UK:

(nice Ordnance Survey base data but would have been cheaper to use OSM )

To map mash-ups like this collection of pushpins illustrating where journalists have been attacked:

A nice resource if you can’t quite get enough map porn in your daily web surfing.