Maps in the News: Iraq, Jamaica,
Somalia, Syria, the Ukraine, and Wales
The Ball State University
Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) provides cartographic
resources for research and learning. In
fact the GRMC houses 140,000 maps and atlases of locations around the world,
including global “hot spots” in the news.
The first map above (click
to enlarge) is a portion of a road map of the United Kingdom available from the
GRMC. The map shows the locations of the
NATO Summit in Newport and Cardiff, Wales.
President Obama is attending this meeting of world leaders—the largest
gathering of international leaders ever to take place in Great Britain.
The second map was provided
by the Institute for the Study of War.
The map shows the presence of the Islamic State (Isis) marked in red
from Syria through Iraq. The
northwestern region of Syria is identified on the map as the region in which
journalist James Foley was kidnapped in 2012.
U.S. airstrike targets are shown as of August 2014.
The next map is from the
GRMC and was published by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency showing the
regions of dispute in the country of Somalia.
Somaliland and Puntland are not recognized and are self-declared
autonomous regions.
The map of Ukraine was
published on the ReliefWeb Web page. The
map shows the rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine. The map identifies the number and locations of
people displaced (IDP’s=internally displaced population) by the fighting in the
country and the number of people seeking asylum as of September 1, 2014.
The last map is a Central
Intelligence Agency map of Jamaica from the GRMC. The map shows the parish boundaries,
railroads, important roads, and cities.
The most updated Central Intelligence Agency maps are available from the Digital Media Repository from the Maps of the World collection.
For more information about
cartographic resources from the GRMC, please call 765-285-1097.
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