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BBC HD - 1of4 - Medieval Maps-001. BBC HD - 1of4 - Medieval Maps-002. BBC HD - 4of4 - Cartoon Maps-001. ReMap - apperently discontinued - Radical cartography.

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CloudMade. GoogleMaps. BingMaps. YourMaps. ESRI - The GIS Software Leader | Mapping Software and Data. ArcGIS Ideas. 2010 ESRI International User Conference | UC - User Conference. ArcGIS Online Blog : Embedding ArcGIS Online maps in your own website. In a previous post we showed how you can use the new JavaScript sample templates to create custom apps using ArcGIS Online maps. Another custom way you can use ArcGIS Online maps is to embed them in your website. Here’s how… This is a map of the Esri Redlands campus made using the ArcGIS.com viewer. We used the World Topographic basemap and zoomed to the Esri campus, saved the map, then made it publicly available for anyone to find. You can use this map if you are following along, or create and save your own. To share this map with others, just look for the share button at the top of the map: Note that there are various options for how you can share this map; you can copy and paste a link to the map in an E-mail, or can share it via your Facebook or Twitter account.

But to include this map in a Web page what we’ll want to do is use the HTML embed string which is ready-to-use. In this first example we’ll keep it very simple. TeleAtlas. ZoomAtlas: Mapping Every Square Inch of America. Ovi Maps - Find Places. Flickr maps Explorer les photos sur une carte.

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CASA Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis UCL - CASA News. About OGC | OGC® Interactive Geography Games. Interactive games and maps can be good tools for students to use in developing their knowledge of geography. The following ten websites are good places to find a variety of interactive geography games and interactive maps that will help students develop their knowledge of geography. The last item in the list is a resource for creating your own geography game. National Geographic Kids has a wide variety of games, puzzles, and activities for students of elementary school age.

National Geographic Kids has nine games specifically for developing geography skills. Placefy is a fun and challenging geography game that uses pictures as questions. Placefy presents players with an image of a city square, buildings, and other famous landmarks. GeoNet is a geography quiz game from Houghton Mifflin that offers students more than just the state or country identification questions typical of geography games. Place Spotting is a website of geographic riddles.

What games would you add to this list? Geocubes. Geocubes (geocubes) Polymaps. Nalden.net/ maps. Sansürü protesto etmek için google maps yürüyüşü. GoalMap2010. Cartograms - FIFA World Cup. Helsinki Region Transport - Vehicle Locations.

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Container 1. Container 2. Mappiness, the happiness mapping app. Mappiness iPhone App Maps Happiness (Say That Three Times Fast) Officially launching today is Mappiness, a UK iPhone app that “maps Happiness” by pinging users with a survey in order to plot out their feelings during the day (happiness, in this case, is apparently user-defined).

Using LBS, the app links responses and response locations to environmental data in an attempt to, according to lead researcher George MacKerron, “better find answers on the impacts of natural beauty and environmental problems on individual and national well being.” MacKerron, based at the London School Economics, elaborated on the idea of tracking happiness, “In the 19th century economists imagined a ‘hedonometer,’ a perfect happiness gauge, and psychologists have more recently run small scale ‘experience sampling’ studies to see how mood varies with activity, time of day and so on.” Mappiness is the first project of its kind to add location to the mix. Now, thanks to the iPhone, we might get a better grasp on humanity’s happiness habits.

Japanese artist maps 1945-1998's nuclear explosions. A Japanese artist named Isao Hashimoto has created a series of works about nuclear weapons. One is titled "1945-1998" and shows a history of the world's nuclear explosions. Over the course of fourteen and a half minutes, every single one of the 2053 nuclear tests and explosions that took place between 1945 and 1998 are is plotted on a map.

A metronomic beep every second represents months passing, and a different tone indicates explosions from different countries. It starts out slowly, with the Manhattan Project's single test in the US and the two terrible bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II. After a couple of minutes or so, however, once the USSR and Britain entered the nuclear club, the tests really start to build up, reaching a peak of nearly 140 in 1962, and remaining well over 40 each year until the mid-80s. He began the piece in 2003, with the aim of showing, in his own words, "the fear and folly of nuclear weapons".

Here's the video: "1945-1998" by Isao Hashimoto (Japan, © 2003) Zoomable Map video. Urban EcoMap. CISCO+A'dam Urban EcoMap. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 1, 2009 - Cisco and the city of Amsterdam today announced the rollout of Urban EcoMap, an Internet-based tool that enables cities around the world to provide smarter climate change information for their citizens. A city can use Urban EcoMap to create awareness among its residents of the impact of carbon emissions on their urban environment. It provides information on carbon emissions from transportation, energy and waste among neighborhoods, organized by district, and delivers tips on ways to reduce a resident's carbon footprint. Facts/Highlights: The application is an extension of the Urban EcoMap launched in May 2009 in the city of San Francisco. Additional Information: Urban EcoMap is part of the global Urban Services Platform approach toward which visionary cities and the information and communications technology (ICT) industry are moving.

Availability: Urban EcoMap is scheduled to be available for public use by citizens of Amsterdam on Dec. 1. Supporting quotes: Images: UrbanEcoMap by Cisco. CultureGPS Hofstede's Cultural Dimension. Disclaimer: Culture influences patterns of thinking which are reflected in the meaning people attach to various aspects of life and which become crystallized in the institutions of a society.

This does not imply that everyone in a given society is programmed in the same way: there are considerable differences between individuals. Statements about culture do not describe "reality", they are all general and relative. The cultural systems of nations and their subdivisions are very complex. Usage of the tool is at your own risk! Geert Hofstede Cultural Dimensions.

GeertHofstede personal webside. Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before. Census 2010 - Mapping the Hard to Count Population. Grassroots Mapping. Mapping Social Networks In A 3-D Environment. Invisible Cities is an application that visualizes real-time and aggregate data culled from Twitter and Flickr, and maps it in a three-dimensional environment. It provides an alternate perspective towards the geographical relationships and intensity of social network connectivity within an urban landscape. Real-time updates are shown as nodes which materialize when tweets or images are posted, and aggregate data are displayed through the layout of the terrain.

High and low levels of data in the environment are seen as hills and valleys, respectively. Invisible Cities is still undergoing development, but will be available in the near future. Read more about the project here. Here’s a short video that shows the application in action: Invisible Cities from Christian Marc Schmidt on Vimeo. [via Creative Applications] WorldMap of SocialNetworks. January 2017: a new edition of my World Map of Social Networks, showing the most popular social networking sites by country, according to Alexa & SimilarWeb traffic data (caveat: it’s hard to understand the impact of Google+ because it is part of Google domain traffic).

There are a lot of news since last January: Facebook is still the leading social network in 119 out of 149 countries analyzed, but it was stopped in 9 territories by Odnoklassniki, Vkontakte and Linkedin. It’s interesting to see that in some countries, like Botwana, Mozambique, Namibia, Iran e Indonesia, Instagram wins and that some African territories prefer LinkedIn. Overall LinkedIn conquers 9 countries, Instagram 7, meanwhile VKontakte and Odnoklassniki (part of the same group Mail.ru) grow up in Russian territories. In China QZone still dominates the Asian landscape with 632 million users and Japan is the only country where Twitter is the leader. But what’s going on behind the first place?

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