Following the recent elections which took place recently in Iran , the country's situation seems very tense. demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of people are held every days, especially in the capital Tehran, since the announcement of the incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmanidejad. Supporters of the moderate candidate Mir-Hossein Moussavi, beaten, denouncing massive fraud in the election of 12 June.
To understand the distribution of votes in these elections (very roughly a capital and major cities more conducive to a campaign Mousavi and more favorable Ahmanidejad), it is essential to refer to cards, such as the one below that this the mosaic of peoples and communities living in Iran, the result of a multi-millennial history:
(Source Wikipedia )
The site offers Lexilogos here several current and historical maps of Iran. Among these maps, we can keep it written in Persian and provides access to a great level of detail slabs downloadable entry which you can navigate easily:
The National Imagery Mapping Agency (NIMA) published a series of maps at 1 / 250, 000 of Iran that are available here on the site of the University of Texas at Austin. Here is the map of the Tehran region:
(Click here to view large map)
The capital, Tehran , is located north of the country at the foot of the Alborz Mountains. Tehran's population has multiplied by forty since it became the capital following the change of dynasty in the late eighteenth century. Today the capital has more than 7 million inhabitants and the town nearly 14 million.
(Source Wikipedia )
can compare the extent of the city today than in 1947 thanks to this map of the Tehran region, published by the U.S. Army Map Service, based on surveys conducted in 1910 under the direction of the Surveyor-General of India and revised in 1940:
(Source Wikipedia )
Parset.com site offers an interactive map by slabs.
Now the news of a country can compete with Twitter messages and mapping can be established by géomashups . For elections, the site offers several 20minutes "Twitter-maps" of the elections which took place recently in Iran, established through MapChannel :
(Source 20minutes)
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2009/06/iran-protests-on-google-maps.html
site Mibazaar.com offers for its two sites that allow mapping component otherwise represent the news from Iran
IranTwitts which offers a Twitter message georeferenced mapping for the Middle East, Europe, the western United States and the eastern United States:
Iranprotests which offers videos georeferenced on the latest happenings reported by the media:
site Persian blogosphere Interactive map the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (discovered here ) scans the Iranian blogosphere. It offers an interactive tool that lets you view sites by thematic grouping them according to the Fruchterman-Rheingold algorithm that brings out the complex relationships linking all these blogs. The advantage of this representation is, among other things, to highlight blogs that are the subject of blockades by the Iranian authorities. We see very clearly that locks these days are mainly blogs considered rather favorable reformers:
(Copyright Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University)
Besides all these maps online, more or less interactive and timely, we must not forget the works devoted to the geopolitical Iran including the Atlas of Iran :
This atlas was produced as part of the team "World Iran" at CNRS (UMR 7528 CNRS / INALCO / EPHE / Sorbonne Nouvelle - Iranian Worlds and Indian) and RECLUS. It is the result of a long term collaboration between French and Iranian: Bernard Hourcade , geographer, research director at CNRS, Hubert Mazurek Marie-Hélène Papola-Yazdi, and Mahmoud Taleghani.
"More than 250 maps show the weight of the cultural, economic asymmetries, the emergence of Tehran and major regional cities, the diversity of the countryside, but also the relations between provinces, the new dynamic peripheral regions or relations with neighboring countries. Iran, three times as large as France and populated by 60 million people, did not reduce its oil wealth, its capital, its political system and its international relations. One can understand its social and cultural change, his ambitions as a regional power or its political development if it does not measure the geographical complexity of the centralized state. The Atlas of Iran provides clear information about recent, original and often ironic about this state, the heir of ancient Persia.
can be found here a summarized version of the atlas on the Internet. This an interactive atlas designed by Christian square with the collaboration of Patrick BROSSIER House of Geography of Montpellier. Unfortunately, this "interactive atlas" does not propose any map .... but only a list of some maps reference.
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