{"id":38661,"date":"2013-09-06T15:45:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T21:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/06\/a-multitude-of-miscellaneous-maps.html"},"modified":"2013-09-06T15:45:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T21:45:06","slug":"a-multitude-of-miscellaneous-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/06\/a-multitude-of-miscellaneous-maps.html","title":{"rendered":"A Multitude of Miscellaneous Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"
I don't know that these help me "make sense of the world," but they are all fairly interesting to peruse. \u00a0(h\/t Ginger)<\/div>\n

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40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World<\/a>
\n \u00a0 If you’re a visual learner like myself, then you know maps, charts and infographics can really help bring data and information to life. Maps can make a point resonate with readers and this c…\n <\/p>\n

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I don't know that these help me "make sense of the world," but they are all fairly interesting to peruse. \u00a0(h\/t Ginger) 40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World \u00a0 If you’re a visual learner like myself, then you know maps, charts and infographics can really help bring data and information … Continue reading “A Multitude of Miscellaneous Maps”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39883,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/04\/blobby-maps.html","url_meta":{"origin":38661,"position":0},"title":"Blobby Maps","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Dec-13 11:58am","format":false,"excerpt":"The use of circles and ovals, and attempting to show how areas relate to each other, makes these maps exceedingly cool. 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