Usually I look in vain for good maps of the election cycle, but with the proliferation of on-line mapping these days, you knew we’d run into some. There’s a litany of KML regarding the election this year, but what I wanted was some nice maps showing distributions that you don’t normally see.
What a welcome post Aaron over at GIS Dev Café has produced, looking for the same thing I am.
His post today is about a site called Patchwork Nation (CS Monitor) that has a real nice map of different demographic groups around the country. As simplified as it is, I’m intrigued by the categories and their distribution. Take a look, and then take a look at the maps on Voting Machine Technology, Advertisement Spending, and Campaign Finance.
The ad spending maps were very interesting. Looks like both party’s candidates are spending the bulk of their money in the industrial lake states. My first reaction was that we out here in the wee west have been left out and forgotten, but then remembering what heavy spending on TV ads and mailings looks like, perhaps we’re better off.
1 comment:
Thanks for the shout out. I have been blown away by the sheer volume of mapped data this election year. And most of these maps actually are created very well.
Aaron
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