Comments on: Food that makes you go Yuck! http://jackthurston.com/food-that-makes-you-go-yuck/2007/02/12/ notes and articles by Jack Thurston Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:37:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jack Thurston http://jackthurston.com/food-that-makes-you-go-yuck/2007/02/12/#comment-91 Jack Thurston Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:09:33 +0000 http://jackthurston.com/food-that-makes-you-go-yuck/2007/02/12/#comment-91 Hi Gregor, Thanks for that - all very interesting stuff and we'd like to do it at farmsubsidy.org. We have done it for some countries as a trial (Sweden, Denmark), but most country governments have refused to give us any point data on where the recipient of the farm subsidy actually is. They usually give a region instead, which can often be rather large (England has 8 regions). So this data is not so amenable to mapping. Hi Gregor,
Thanks for that - all very interesting stuff and we’d like to do it at farmsubsidy.org. We have done it for some countries as a trial (Sweden, Denmark), but most country governments have refused to give us any point data on where the recipient of the farm subsidy actually is. They usually give a region instead, which can often be rather large (England has 8 regions). So this data is not so amenable to mapping.

]]> By: Gregor J. Rothfuss http://jackthurston.com/food-that-makes-you-go-yuck/2007/02/12/#comment-88 Gregor J. Rothfuss Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:14:36 +0000 http://jackthurston.com/food-that-makes-you-go-yuck/2007/02/12/#comment-88 trying to get in touch about farmsubsidy.org, your email bounces.. hi, you have a wonderful dataset, and i admire your work for transparency. have you considered overlaying it on a map? i suspect that the juxtaposition of where the money goes and whether that area is even rural will be highly interesting and drive your point home even more. the easiest to do this would be with google maps. i'd be happy to provide pointers if you are interested, but for now, consider these examples: http://gecensus.stanford.edu/gcensus/index.html http://www.healthcarethatworks.org/maps/nyc/ http://www.bethefullstop.com/map http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/03/us_government_p.html http://forwardtrack.eyebeamresearch.org/ there are many more at http://del.icio.us/tag/mapping advocacy best, -gregor trying to get in touch about farmsubsidy.org, your email bounces..

hi,

you have a wonderful dataset, and i admire your work for transparency. have you considered overlaying it on a map? i suspect that the juxtaposition of where the money goes and whether that area is even rural will be highly interesting and drive your point home even more.

the easiest to do this would be with google maps.

i’d be happy to provide pointers if you are interested, but for now, consider these examples:

http://gecensus.stanford.edu/gcensus/index.html
http://www.healthcarethatworks.org/maps/nyc/
http://www.bethefullstop.com/map
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/03/us_government_p.html
http://forwardtrack.eyebeamresearch.org/

there are many more at http://del.icio.us/tag/mapping advocacy

best,

-gregor

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