Map of the Week - Trust the Experts

This map in today's Boston Globe reminded me of Middle East expert John McCain's various gaffes (Iran, Iraq, Sunni, Shiite, who can tell the difference?) Here's a map of his "Iraq-Pakistan Border" courtesy of Matthew Yglesias and the Atlantic Monthly.

MOTW #88

From the Daily Mail - Research shows that almost 50 per cent of Britain's drivers - an astonishing 15 million - are unable to identify simple map symbols and that about 11million admit they "cannot read a basic road map". Then again if you scroll down and look at the Ordnance Survey's map symbols you may have trouble with them too. You didn't know the green box was mud? PC? Must be a Brit thing.

MOTW #35

This is one of those maps that I posted a while back and didn't document properly. It shows countries in the Middle East, Asia and Oceania with the percentage of American youth who are able to locate them on a map. I made the map with data that I don't recall the origins of.

MOTW #3

This is a fun video entitled "Who Should we Invade Next?"