Who has the World’s Oil

How much oil do we think there is right now? Who has it and more importantly how much do that consume?

As most everyone knows now a days the countries that make up the Middle East hold over 60% of the worlds known oil supply. Which adds up to over 700 billion barrels of oil. With Russia & the United States bringing up a distant second and third with just under 100 billion barrels.

source: Civic Actions

Energy Map of America

Where are the major oil fields in the US? How about the Nuclear power plants or coal fields? What parts have the most solar energy potential? MSNBC took data from various US departments and created a rough outline of where these energy sources are.

The maps are a bit overloaded with typical “local news” style background imagery so here they are with a higher contrast and simplified view.

source MSNBC

Real Time World Emergency Disaster Map

What if you have a real time map of the worlds earthquakes, volcano eruptions, hurricanes/typhoons, wars, epidemics & toxic accidents? All being tracked over time and all tied to a nice zoomable Google maps interface.

That would seem both long overdue and probably impossible to pull off. Someone has done it.

An information agency in Hungary has tied it all together. Not exactly sure where they are getting their information from since I can not speak Hungarian but I would assume it is a feed from the United Nations. If anyone knows for sure please leave a comment of the sites history.

Regardless it is one of the most addictive sites I have seen in a long time and has the potential of being on the the most interesting map/websites around if they could only clean the interface up a small amount.

source: Host Site

US Map of Male vs Female Singles

National Geographic has released a US national map of the number of single single men and women. The disparity between the two is seemingly in line with the old saying” Go West! young man, go west”.

If you are a determinedly single woman and want to be part of a larger pool of consumers then Chicago, Philadelphia & NYC seem to be the place for you….. and the men who want to change your mind.

Visa versa if you are a single male and just want to work without the distraction then you seemingly live in San Francisco, LA, Las Vegas & Austin. As we all know those places have long lines of people hoping to attract the attention of those single men.

source: National Geographic

Map of Percentage of Blonds in Europe

Strange Maps brings you a new breakdown of the prevalence of of blonds throughout Europe. Pretty predictable but still interesting.

source: Strange Maps

Map of the Languages of Europe

Ever wonder where do Slavic, Germanic & Romanic languages actually exits in Europe. As with all languages or accents they never follow established government borders.

Then again over time they can start to mimic them very closely. Thankfully someone has taken the time to do a detailed breakdown of the different regions of tongue and created a map with government borders overlaid.

source: Photobucket

Interactive Graph of 08′ Pres. Nomine Funds

A constantly updated breakdown of the finances of the 2008 US Presidential Nominees. Broken down by cash on hand, expenses, donations by committee and individual & many others.

source: Associated Press

Suicide Rate Based on Golden Gate Bridge Location

A visual graph breaking down the suicide rate based on locations at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA. The data was caught by surveillance camera’s and has been indexed by the 128 light poles that sit on either side of the bridge.

source: Unknown

Graph of US Average Income

A graph of average income (1913-2004) that was built by Visualizing Economics. The graph shows a data mix that includes capital gain and income.

source: Visualizing Economics

Animated World Map of CO2 Emissions

Breathing Earth has taken the World Factbook data and applied it to an animated flash map and give you more of a big picture image. Nothing very new but old data in a new way.

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