Article Entry
13 Oct 2009
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The Mapping of America’s Sins
Added by USGIF Category: Daily Intelligence Brief, General
They say that American is a sinner’s paradise. Although we are still steeped in our puritanical ways, we still like to do bad stuff and engage in the seven deadly sins. This was made ever apparent by a recent Wired magazine story about how a team at Kansas State University who developed a series of maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust). So, as you can expect greed runs rampant in Southern California and the Northeast. Most violent crimes and STDs are in the south. Man, we live in a twisted country…how could you not love it. Read the full article here.
Tags: American Vice, GEOINT, Imagery, Mapping, Mapping of America's SIns, Mapping of Seven Deasly Sins, USGIF, Wired Magazine
Wow – great idea, and very interesting results….
Well! I guess you know America pretty well, it’s time for the mapping technologist to apply in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Krishan Sharma,
I love this article. I also wrote about it and expressed my appreciation for how the Kansas State University team could take boring data and turn it into provocative and interesting maps that teach us something about ourselves.
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