Known unknowns
Bored? Feeling a little too proud of yourself? Want to feel stupid? Take this series of hardcore geography quizzes. I think in America we assume that a lot of people around the world have an inkling of...
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Welcome to Erie State
This unconventional Senate reapportionment map, courtesy of Andrew Sullivan, would divide the U.S. into regions with more or less equal representation by population. As usual, upstate NY gets cut into...
View ArticleHistory as voodoo
Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation has started a potentially interesting new project examining some of the historical markers in Central New York. They have a Google map of markers started, and a list of...
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Other people’s blogs
Brian Cubbison has cooked up a really useful comment map about the I-81 debate. Map-lover that I am, I must say, this is a really brilliant use of the much-overused Google map technology, which is...
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The Really Big Mess: ruined NYS map from ’64 World’s Fair
I thought I had seen or heard of it all when it came to the faded glories of the Empire State, but I guess I am too young to have heard of this: Down in Queens, at the former New York State Pavilion...
View ArticleMaple Syrup Nation
A New York Times story on disappearing regional foods has an interactive map dividing North America into “food nations.” We’re part of the Maple Syrup Nation, and some of our endangered foods include...
View ArticleGeography bee
The New York State Fair has a lot of competitions for kids, from dance to animal husbandry to even a spelling bee, but I wonder why they don’t hold a New York geography bee for kids at the fair....
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