[Site]Worldmapper - interesting "new" maps of the world

http://www.worldmapper.org/

Check out this cool site, as part of a project and book, that has many interesting redrawn maps of the world based on a variety of categories.

For example:

Population at Year 1:
http://www.worldmapper.org/images/largepng/7.png

Wealth (GDP):
http://www.worldmapper.org/images/largepng/170.png

Poverty:
http://www.worldmapper.org/images/largepng/174.png

Definitely a lot of stuff there that makes you see the world in a very different way, literally.

 

The war deaths one is also very telling:
http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=288

Also, military spending in 2002 .. in second was ... Japan?
http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=279