Laconic History Of The World: Martin Elmer Designs Typographical Map Using Countries' Wikipedia Words (PHOTO)
Posted: 01/05/2013 10:51 am EST | Updated: 01/05/2013 10:54 am EST
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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but what about a map?
Martin Elmer, a Wisconsin-based cartographer and graphic designer, has created a typographical map of the world featuring the most-used word in each country's Wikipedia history page. According to MapHugger, Elmer's blog, the map was created by running the countries' "History Of" pages through a word cloud, selecting the most common descriptive word (no "the" or "and"), and fitting it into each country's borders./.../