Mr Maher's List: Geography Awareness Week

Each map is accompanied by an explanation

After choosing a location and looking at a current map, this tool allows provides you with a timeline of maps that you can choose to overlay the map you're looking at. Easy to see the growth of suburban sprawl. Look at what happens to Levittown New York between 1947 and 1955

This map shows how easy it is to recognize the legacy of slavery, even in the year 2000. Look at the counties that show the highest population of African Americans more than 300 years after the first slave ships arrived in the Americans

Map that shows statistics in which countries lead the world - everything from casinos per capita, to raspberry production and melanoma rates.

Checking a claim I heard a teacher make that the Amazon river is as long as the distance between New York City and Rom, I found this site that will allow you to find the distance between any two places on the globe. Now how do we know this is accurate? BTW - according to this source (and Google for the river length) - New York is 285 miles longer to Rome than the length of the Amazon.

If you put all of the world's population into an area of the United States, and packed them in together at the same population density as Paris, it would take up an area equal to Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Maps that show this any many other unusual ideas (current countries boundaries if they were imposed on Pangaea), prove that maps don't just show "where things are"