A warm welcome to our July Expert blogger, Tony Cassidy!

In my last blog post I want to look once again behind the scenes of the worldmapper project (www.worldmapper.org). This time I explain the colour scheme that many people wonder whether it tells us more than only being very – well – colourful.

In this blog post I want to look into Shanghai’s past, as it is the prime example for China’s recent rise. A look into history helps to understand, why Shanghai was predestined to be the model-city for the 21st century.

The last week of June is the Geography Awareness Week initiated by the Geographical Association (GA), and it deserves to be mentioned here as this week is all about raising awareness and enthusiasm for geography...

How do you explain worldmapper maps to children? That question kept us busy last year while Danny Dorling and I prepared a lecture for children at a Sheffield primary school earlier last year. You will see what we came up in this week’s blog post.

Worldmapper has become a popular repository for a slightly different visualisation of some of the most relevant issues of our time. We get a large number of emails, often asking very similar questions, so I want to take the opportunity to take you behind the scenes of worldmapper and answer some of the most frequently asked questions about the project. This post starts with some background information about worldmapper and about how up-to-date the worldmapper maps are.