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Using historical apportionment data over the past 100 years, available in table form here: http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-data-text.php
we illustrated the relative per-person representation in U.S. Congress as a thematic map and series of state-based sparklines. The map is shaded by the ordered rank of personal representation and the sparklines show congressional seats gained and lost over the past 10 decades and the impact that it, in conjunction with population change, had on a person’s proportional representation in Congress compared to the national average. Whew.
Source: http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-data-text.php
Cleanup and aggregation:
Excel
Illustration:
Adobe Fireworks
Is it time for a global licensing framework for geospatial data? The GSDI Legal and Economic Working group thinks so and offered a presentation and a way forward at the GSDI 13 conference held in Quebec City in May. The effort aims to harmonize existing licensing without changing fundamental access policies and funding models and be compatible with the diferences in national legal systems. That's a tall order, but an important one as the world moves toward geodata sharing. Geoff Zeiss reports.