Stephanie Butnick, "Maps Chart Speech Patterns Across America," Tablet Magazine, June 5, 2013
Today in fun charts: Joshua Katz, a statistics
PhD student at N.C. State
University put together a series of maps of the United States which
reveal the staggering extent to which where we live in influences how we
say what we say. Basically, why New Yaw-kers speak differently than,
say, Texans. In addition to illustrating the geographic coordinates of
the sub/hoagie and soda/pop debates, Katz’s cartographical endeavor
plots contentious pronunciation from coast to coast: caramel (where more
vowels get dropped the further west you go), crayon (all over the
board, literally), and mayonnaise (which I prefer to simply avoid both
in speech and practice).>>>Mickey Mellen, "Historic Overlay Maps of North Carolina," Google Earth Blog, June 3, 2013
Image overlays have consistently been one of the neatest features in Google Earth. The most common use of overlays is to show imagery that is more fresh than what can be found in Google Earth (such as this one from President Obama’s Inauguration or this one from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico). However, overlays can also be used to showcase alternate maps such as detailed topography or historical maps like we’ll show you today.>>>
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