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Hotlinks for 2008

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30 December, 2007 to 6 January, 2008

The US Census Bureau
The US Census Bureau is the archive of all the data from hundreds of years of census-taking. To begin with, the top page offers a US and World Population Clock -- refresh the page and watch the data change. Then dig in to the site -- search by zip code, by town, by state, or by the whole US, using all kinds of variables. You can see historical data, and also read projections up to 2050. There's also a special Section for Teachers with teaching materials, reference brochures and reports, and a special web site called "State Facts for Students".

6 to 13 January, 2008

The Perry-Castaneda Library at Univ of Texas
The great map library. This is the place to go for that map you can't find elsewhere -- cities, countries, regions, modern and historical. An amazing resource, well organized and easy to use, and with links to other map archives as well.

13 to 20 January, 2008

Growth of a Nation
This brilliant 10-minute presentation illustrates the growth of the United States from the original 13 colonies to the 50 states of today. Make sure sound is on; you can play, pause, rewind. If you roll your mouse over states you can see their names, or click on individual states for more details. Click Rivers for their names. You can also play with the timeline by dragging the pointer to look at different periods more closely, or to expand the timeline decade by decade. An expanded version is for sale for classroom use.

20 to 27 January, 2008

Who Has The Oil
From the archives of The Atlantic Monthly, this simple cartogram that helps viewers contemplate and come to grips with the world's oil reserves, and in which hands they are found.

27 January to 3 February, 2008

EWebGlobe
Software professional Naveen Gabrani has started a nice geography website with information about different aspects of the world; it is definitely a work in progress, as only 10 countries are featured in the "countries" section, but there is a lot of other useful information, and an expectation of more to come.

3 to 10 February, 2008

Bible/Map Interface
A really interesting google maps mashup; select a version of the Bible (ESV or King James), then select a book and a chapter, and after a few moments, you get a map of the locations mentioned in that chapter. They suggest you begin by selecting Joshua 12, which has dozens of locations, just to see the power of this tool. You don't have to know anything about the Bible; it's a great tool for learning about the geography of the Eastern Mediterranean.

10 to 17 February, 2008

The Truth About Google Earth
A funny little video about Google Earth from Francois Grandjacques; a Parisian discovers one unexpected truth about Google Earth. Posted in taistoidonc.com/blog

17 to 24 February, 2008

Our Dumb World
The Onion's new Atlas, "Our Dumb World", contains distorted stories and exaggerations about countries of the world; some of the distortions are funny because of the grains of truth they contain. The Atlas has now been posted on The Onion website, using a google mashup, and so you can explore the world through The Onion's eyes.

24 February to 2 March, 2008

Debunking Myths about the "third world"
In this lecture (it will take you 20 minutes to watch it on youtube, but you'll be glad you did), Hans Roslong, professor at Karolinsks Institute of Stockholm, gives an AMAZING presentation about how the world has changed in the last 40 years.

2 to 9 March, 2008

The Night Sky In The World
This Italian site tracks satellite monitoring of the artificial brightness of the night sky -- and therefore the visibility of the stars -- around the world. Though definitely Eurocentric, you can get to US maps as well. Also very powerful are the images of Earth Lights at night around the world, because of what these images tell the viewer about populations, about population density, and -- perhaps less intuitively -- about those places where people live with no lights, or minimal lights, at night.

9 to 16 March, 2008

FedEx Geography Ad
I'm not sure this is as funny as it's supposed to be, since it seems to say "it's ok to be geographically ignorant, because FedEx isn't", but at the same time, it says a lot about the present state of geography knowledge among adults. And it is pretty funny.

16 to 23 March, 2008

Lufthansa Virtual Pilot Game
The object of this game, found on the Lufthansa corporate site, is to land the jet in the specified city in Europe. In the first round, you are shown a name, and you have 8 seconds to click on the map, which has country borders and dots for cities. In the second round, no cities are shown, just national borders, and you have only 6 seconds. In the final round, only the European land mass is shown, and you have only 5 seconds. The first round is fun; the other two require speed, good mousing skills, and excellent geographic knowledge.

23 to 30 March, 2008

Bugaboo Daytrips
Bugaboo is a company that manufactures high-tech modern strollers for parents with young children; this site, which they sponsor, has interesting day trips in a variety of cities. Click on the city, read the details of one or more day trips around the city. Right now there are 19 cities, with up to 6 trips in each one. I examined the trips in the cities I know, and they look like interesting, well-thought-out trips.

30 March to 6 April, 2008

Gigapan
A powerful and dramatic method for viewing scenes in incredible detail, with unbelievably high-resolution photos. From their website: "GigaPan is the newest development of the Global Connection Project, which aims to help us meet our neighbors across the globe, and learn about our planet itself. GigaPan will help bring distant communities and peoples together through images that have so much detail that they are, themselves, the objects of exploration, discovery and wonder. We believe that enabling people to explore, experience, and share each other's worlds can be a transforming experience. Our mission is to make all aspects of the GigaPan experience accessible and affordable to the broadest possible community."

6 to 13 April, 2008

U.S. Atlas of Renewable Resources
The National Renewable Energy Lab is developing this dandy little web application that can give you distribution of wind, biomass, solar, and geothermal resources across the U.S., searchable by lat/long or by zip code.

13 to 20 April, 2008

Interactive World Map
A fun, interactive Physical Map of the World; the map uses Zoomify to allow users to scan, zoom in, examine details more closely, etc. The same creator, Tom Patterson of the U.S. National Park Service, has created a similar map of the conterminous U.S. states

20 to 27 April, 2008

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Interactive Atlas
A student project at the University of Wisconsin; this interactive map/atlas gives users an introduction to the ANWR, and then offers the opportunity to explore several categories, including Wildlife, landcover, people, and geography. Fascinating, perhaps best suited to younger explorers, since one of the options is to click on a "sound" symbol and hear the sound of different ANWR animals. This site was the 2007 winner of the North American Cartographic Information Society competition.

27 April to 4 May, 2008

The World Freedom Atlas
A project from course work at the University of Wisconsin, the World Freedom Atlas uses over 300 variables concerned with human rights, democracy, and good governance, and presents them in what they call a geovisualization tool. It covers a 16-year range, starting in 1990.

4 to 11 May, 2008

Shaded Relief
This site is designed for practicing cartographers, but there is a lot of material here for teachers, students, and any other interested visitors. The theoretical underpinning is that the presentation of topography can be clear, intuitive, and even attractive. Also see www.reliefshading.com.

11 to 18 May, 2008

New Jersey State Atlas
John J. Reiser is an employee of the State of New Jersey, and decided that he wanted to play with Google Maps and Mapserver and see whether he could make the public data accessible and easy to use online. The result is powerful and fascinating.

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