Get Lost in These 19 Fascinating Maps

In the simplest sense of the word, a map is a spatial representation of something. It provides us with a sense of context, scale and location. Maps began as 2D depictions, but technology and data enable maps to become dynamic, real-time and compelling visualizations of how we live and move. Below, we've rounded up 21 awesome maps from around the web. Some will help you navigate your city, some show the actual mapmaking process and some are just mindblowing visualizations of people flowing throughout cities. 1. New York City's MTA transports approximately seven million people every day. 2. What faster way to get from one country's metropolis to another? 3. The CityMaps app was founded in 2010 as a social map to help people discover the places in their city. 4. Whether a high-speed rail system ever gets built in the United States is still up in the air, but if it is, artist and activist Alfred Twu figured out exactly where those speedy rail lines should go. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Map Maker Basics - Map Makerpedia In Short Learn about Google Map Maker’s basic functionality by creating a map yourself. Introduction Google provides a set of tools with which you can create your own maps: Google Maps and Google Map Maker. Google Map Maker Google Map Maker is a web-based collaborative mapping application for creating, viewing and editing online geo-information. Below is a comparison of Google Maps data and Google Map Maker data. Map Maker activities have first targeted countries with minimal data in Google Maps. Maps for a part of Rabat, Morocco. For an up-to-date overview, see the countries being mapped The Map Maker Moderation System Google Map Maker enables users accessing the service through a Google Account to submit User Submissions or to edit such third party User Submissions (collectively known as "User Submissions"). Create points of interest (POIs) [visit the tutorial for more info] A POI is essentially any place on earth that can be useful for someone. Click the Draw a Line tool. 1. 2. 3. Lessons

Urban Mapping Blog - Urban Mapping THE WALKING DEAD GOOGLE MAP Cartografias On Line Weather Hopper - The ultimate source for worlds historical weather Zonas de Compensação | Projeto de Extensão para Desenvolvimento de Exposição Coletiva Collections - Old Maps Online: Project Below are brief descriptions of the online digital map collections searchable and accessible through the OldMapsOnline portal. Nearly all the institutions providing online map collections have a much larger paper map collection available at their respective institutions, but the OldMapsOnline portal will only search and provide direct linkage to the online maps. During the JISC funded project we added collections from around the world. This funding has now finished but we plan to continue making content updates periodically. The participating institutions are: Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia: The growing digital collection from this national library includes both national and international maps as well as larger-scale maps of strategically important locations. British Library, Map Library: Cartography Associates, the David Rumsey Map Collection: Probably the largest free online digital collection of historical topographic maps and images. Charles University in Prague, The Map collection:

The 200 Best Maps of 2013 For centuries New Year's Eve has been known as a time of quite reflection. A time when people around the world spend a quiet abstemious night in perusing over old maps. This year, for your night of quiet study, you are spoilt for choice, as 2013 proved to be an epic year in the world of interactive mapping. Not only did we see some epic maps this year, we also saw the world of neo-geography move firmly onto the center stage of the online zeitgeist. Which means that this year you have a great choice of 'Maps of the Year' posts from across the internet. Here are just a few of my favorite lists of Maps of the Year that I have come across in the last couple of weeks: If that wasn't enough to whet your mapping appetite you should also check out Google Maps Mania's bumper edition of the 200 Best Maps of 2013. If you are planning on breaking with tradition, and are about to head out for an evening on the tiles, may I suggest that you bookmark this post and come back tomorrow.

Night Earth - See the Earth at Night from Space! Our Favorite Maps of 2013 The digital maps we loved in 2013 didn't simply illustrate novel or useful information (how people travel, where they live, what it means to live without much money). They did it in ways we'd never seen before, manipulating time, dimensions, perspective, even the atmosphere. These maps weren't just interesting in content; they were innovative in design. That's our new bar for 2014. So this December, instead of sharing our top 10 maps of the year, we're looking at 10 ways we've learned to think about maps in entirely new ways. This may well have been the year when maps ceased to impress us for what they convey and began to stun us instead for how they did it. 1. Mapbox 2. Google Maps 3. Global Bike Share Map 4. Dots on a bus 5. Google Timelapse project 6. The Boston Harbor Association 7. Scott Page 8. 9. Nickolay Lamm 10. Racial Dot Map

Google Maps Launch Google MapsLaunch Maps in LUNA Browser The over 120 historical maps in the Google Maps have been selected by David Rumsey from his collection of more than 150,000 historical maps; in addition, there are a few maps from collections with which he collaborates. These maps can also be seen in the Gallery layer of Google Earth, Rumsey Historical Maps layer, and in the Google Earth viewers on this website. All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods (1680 to 1930), scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while others (generally earlier period maps) reveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time and therefore have to be more distorted to fit properly in Google Maps and Earth. The original historical maps are first made into digital images by scanning them with high resolution digital cameras.