word cloud with styles

I am all about typographic map, inspired by Washington DC , World map, and UAE  I have even made several attempts to create some. It is the first step that is troublesome. Fortuitously, there is a Tagxedo . It turns words - famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters - into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text  with very user-friendly interface, many  different colors and themes, fonts  and really quick processing.  Idea of making map flashed into my mind. Firstly, I found the map with shape of Ukraine boundaries

and then decided to make a research - to compare result on  different search engines and visualize the 'view' Ukraine in the web. Here are my results:

#1 - Google

#2 - Bing

#3 - Wikipedia

 #4 - Yahoo

#5 - Answers.com

#6 - Ask.com

It doesn't work with  Ukrainian/Russian encoding, therefore there is neither popular ukrainian nor russian web searcher in the blogpost.
Enjoy Tagxedo!

P.S. Does anybody know what is 'The SitePK'?

Map coasters

Once I have posted a link  devoted to handmade Map Coasters to my facebook page. The idea was to reuse old maps :)

One of my colleague liked them and suggested to present such coasters as gift for  our colleagues on the 2nd birthday of GIS team in Intetics.
Here they are!

Happy B-day Intetics Geo!
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Two days later I found out that there are more coasters than I thought.

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Chernobyl anniversary

25 year ago the bigest technogenic accident in the world had happened in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

Radioactive fallout of Cesium137 after Chernobyl  covered mostly Belorus, Ukraine and Russia.

 

The exclusion zone now is a place for a shor-term tours.

Chernobyl and its influence on today's Ukraine seems to be deeply discovered. Atlas devoted to Chernobyl  illustrating natural and antropogenic  characteristics,radiation pollution of environment   is on sale.

More info about Chernobyl on http://chernobil.info/
www.chernobyl-tour.com
Nice dynamic presentation (russian).

Maps from the Hobbit

occasionly I have found a very nice set of Maps from the Hobbit collected from all over the world editions of the book.

Enjoy the book and maps!

picturesque USSR

Yesterday I came across old maps/posters of Soviet republics, so funny to see them now. Unfortunately they are not clickable.

The first set is for The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan). The map was made in 1972.

and this one in 1981

Then goes Baltic states (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia) - 1972


and each of them on separate picture, made in 1982



Ukrainian SSR - 1972 and 1981 respectively

Kirghiz SSR - 1982

Moldavian SSR - 1972
Tatar ASSR - 1981
and finally nothing found for Russia SFSR


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пустельнi дороги пiвночi США нагадали мувiк

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bolwie djadi i tjoti ezdjat na bolwih pikapah. eda bolwimi porcijami. Napitki, kotorie tut prinjato nosit s soboj - 0.7 -1 litr.
Esli eto holodnij- kucha l'da.

Vse - SUGAR FREE, FAT FREE i samoe klevoe - NO REFRIDGERATION NEEDED.

Chicago

Chicago!! My acquaintance of USA has began from this city! Skyscrapers! Skyscrapers!

WOW!




and suburbs look like...

Youry Bilak - “УКРАЇНЦІ” - "UKRAINIANS"

 

Фотовиставка “УКРАЇНЦІ”, зроблена на замовлення Французького культурного центру в Україні з нагоди фестивалю “ Французька весна”.

"UKRAINIANS" is a photographs exhibition ordered by the French Embassy of Ukraine.

The Carpathians - Карпати

 It was my trip to Dragobrat !   
Драгобрат - найвисокогірніша лижна база України, розташована на висоті 1400 м над рівнем моря, на стику хвойних лісів і альпійської зони, біля підніжжя гори Стіг (1707 м над рівнем моря) і гірського масиву Близнюка (1883 м над рівнем моря). Підковоподібне розташування гір Свидівецького Хребта створює унікальний природний феномен – наявність стабільного сніжного покриву з листопада по травень місяць. Впродовж останніх 30 років відсутність снігу, навіть теплими малосніжними зимими, на курорті Драгобрат не спостерігалася.
( з сайту skiworld. )

гора Стіг

More info about Dragobrat.