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Map O’ The Day #208 – Consol Energy Center Parking

Today’s MOTD is a true map but it provides informational elements as well that can save you some money if you are heading to the new Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh. This map was created by Bob Firth. He has many other hand maps of Pittsburgh at his website, www.bobsmaps.com. If you live in the area give a click over to his page and buy his Pittsburgh Cheat Sheets book, only 6.95, coming out on August 31st and learn some tricks and secrets to a handful of things.

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As a side note this map would have been perfect for last Thursday when I had tickets to attend Paul McCartney’s opening night concert. Alas I couldn’t find the time to get to Pittsburgh from DC. I gave my friend the ticket and he said the arena was awesome, specifically commenting on the massive output from the HVAC units.

Map O’ The Day #204 – FIFA World Cup 2010 Bracket

I know I am a little late to the World Cup soccer infographic party but i really liked how this bracket simplified information without using words. It is a shame that the author choose to use words at all because we can figure out which round is which without the header at the top and the thickness of the winning line representing the number of goals could be inferred…i believe.

Map O’ The Day #196 – Decade Of The Lakers

Today’s MOTD is in celebration of the LA Lakers championship win, much to the chagrin of my Boston native co-worker.

This infographic was found on the Behance network designed by Tom Sommers. The image is a little hard to read but you can go to his site and see each section expanded.

Map O’ The Day #188 – The Giro d’Italia

The Giro d’Italia – the three-week Tour of Italy pro cycling race – begins this week. Here is a great graphic from www.cyclocosm.com showing all of the race winners going back to the very first Giro in 1912 in the shape of Italy. The order is represented chronologically from the earliest in the south in Sicily, to the most recent in the north up on the Austrian border. The more wins the rider has, the bigger their names appear (the great Belgian, Eddy Merckx, rules the roost with five wins). The color coding is also very simple and smart; the typographic info is in the Italian tricolor set on a background of pink – the color of the race leader’s jersey, which harks back the pink newsprint pages of La Gazzetta Della Sport, the newspaper that created the Giro back in 1912.

Map O’ The Day #176 – Cricket: Get With It

Today’s MOTD continues our on-going series, get to know a sport. After my complaining yesterday about not being able to find fresh content, i dug into my collected resource folder and pulled out a gem. It is a newspaper infographic from www.pakistanintelligencer.com depicting visually the rules and how to play the sport of cricket.

Map O’ The Day #169 – Rowing

Todays MOTD is another in our series of get to know a sport and comes to us from award winning infographic designer Scott Nychay. He designed this graphic for the Northwest Herald, an Illinois newspaper and it represents an excellent standard in newsprint infographic design.

Map O’ The Day #166 – The Art Of Free Diving

Today’s MOTD comes to us from Laura Dingeldein, a student of Alberto Cairo. The graphic is great because it tells you everything you need to know about free diving, from the equipment used to the effects that different depths have on your body and various styles of free diving.

Map O’ The Day #155 – Walsh Coaching Tree

Today’s MOTD is the coaching tree of the creator of the west coast offense and one of the greatest coaches of all time Bill Walsh.

In analyzing the tree, Mike Holmgren’s lineage is probably the strongest but Dennis Green’s tree is making a case bolstered by the most current super bowl winning coach, Mike Tomlin.

Map O’ The Day #144 – Field Hockey

Today’s MOTD is another installment of get to know a sport through visualization. Todays graphic is centered around hockey, the oldest known ball and stick game.

The graphic specifically focuses around field hockey as an Summer Olympic sport.

Map O’ The Day #114 – 2009 Home Run Derby

Today’s MOTD comes to us from the St. Louis Dispatch and shows the location of all of the home runs that were hit and by whom, during the 2009 All Star Home Run Derby.

Map O’ The Day #103 – Ballpark Orientation

Today’s MOTD was created by Craig Robinson, a baseball and infographics enthusiast.

I love his clean, two tone color scheme and the simplicity with which he provides information.

Make sure to check out his site for more examples of his work!

Map O’ The Day #91 – Citi Field

Today’s MOTD is a N.Y. Times Infographic about the Mets new baseball stadium, Citi Field.

Map O’ The Day #81 – Slap Shots

Today’s map of the day is another in our ‘Get To Know A’ sport series focused on the game of hockey. It was created by Peter Santilli and Chris Kaeser to explain the differences in the rules between olympic hockey and NHL hockey but also does a great job teaching the basics of the game of hockey. If you were wondering, the men’s gold went to Sweeden and the women’s gold medal went to Canada.

I wanted to publish this graphic for the up coming NHL Stanley Cup Series. If you are not a fan of the sport, or are a fan and don’t fully understand some of the rules, use this as a handy reference guide.

The bottom map is a ‘callout’ map that details the change made to NHL equipment during the 2008 offseason. Both graphics are stylistically similar and work well together to provide a more complete representation of the current uniform specifics.

Go Pens!

Map O’ The Day #80 – Moto GP 2008

Today’s map comes to us from Chile via, Jorge Luis Cortes. His Visual Editor social network page can be found here.

Despite being in a foreign language to most of our readers, Jorge’s map is simple to understand because of his use of space from left to right and the iconology representing the various tracks around the world. Names and measurements are also universal and one can gain alot of information about the 2008 standings, ages of participants, track winners and teams, etc…

Map O’ The Day #76 – Russian Athlete ‘Fees’

Today’s MOTD is all about simplicity and elegance. Ignore the fact that it’s published in Russian, (?), and focus on the fact that the graphic, as a standalone image, is able to convey at least two stories to the viewer. It focuses specifically on the amount of money prominent athletes in each sport earn, as well as an provides interesting insight regarding the value placed on each sport within Russia.

Personally, I would have thought hockey would have been above basketball and soccer, but that seems to not be the case.

Last point; check out the fact that the entire structure of the graphic is laid out like a dollar sign, providing an almost subliminal tone to the presentation.