Oh My Gosh, What Happened To Paraguay? And China, You Are So Big!.
Robert Krulwich’s (NPR blog) coverage of inventive use of maps to display world data.
Worldmapper, the source of the maps in this story, has over 700 maps for viewing.
The globe and countries provide a framework within which facts are displayed.
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Choose a topic map and describe a framework for displaying information in that map.
Is your framework different from individual subjects in the topic map?
If so, in what way? More importantly, what goal(s) does that framework further?
Should those goals be subjects?