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Note: links (over 500) are not maintained and may not work.
30 December, 2012, to 6 January, 2013
Map of Great Lakes Stress
From the UPI on Dec 17, a University of Michigan map showing
human impact on this critically important ecosystem that contains 20 percent of the
world's fresh water. Includes coastal development, pollutants, fishing pressure,
climate change, invasive species, and toxics, among the 34 stressors that were examined.
6 to 13 January, 2013
Sheppard
Software Geography Games
Help build that mental map of the world, by using these fun
games to learn continents, countries, capitals, and more. Well organized, at various
levels, and up-to-date.
13 to 20 January, 2013
Rethinking Schools Map Game
A game-based activity, built around the geography of North
Africa and Southwest Asia. Pick a name from the list, drag the name to a country, and
found out if you've labeled the country correctly -- if not, you get further chances. A
good self-test. Note that South Sudan is missing from the outline of Sudan.
20 to 27 January, 2013
Printable Outline Maps
Free blank outline maps, printable, of the countries and
continents of the the world. Part of the about.com website, hosted by Matt Rosenberg.
27 January to 3 February, 2013
The Great Globe Gallery
Based at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, Professor
Zbigniew Zwolinski maintains this site; it offers an amazing collection of links ot
geographic sites all around the web; you can find information and samples for
projections, 3D Earth, Digital Elevation Models, Vegetation and Biodiversity,
temperature, rainfall, land cover, gravity, and much, much more. A good site to
bookmark.
3 to 10 February, 2013
Quick Maps
A very extensive resource of maps and map information. A quick
browse of the index, a quick click, and a small GIF map opens quickly to show you the
map of your choice. By country, by continent, or by themes, a huge amount of valuable
information.
10 to 17 February, 2013
BBC School Site
From the BBC, a website of resources for school use; this one is
for geography for ages 4 to 11, but you can browse around a bit through other topics,
and different age ranges. A rich, rewarding site for teachers.
17 to 24 February, 2013
Great Circle Mapper
Calculate the distance and path between any two (or more) points
on the Earth's surface. You can use Lat/Long coordinates, or Airport Codes. Easiest if
you just enter two codes, with a hyphen, under "Paths", such as BOS-LAX for Boston to
Los Angeles, or LHR-JNB-AKL for London Heather to Johannesburg to Auckland, and see what
it returns. Once you get the idea, it's easy and fun to play.
24 February to 3 March, 2013
Dogs of NY
WNYC in New York has a "projects" page; this is one of their
projects -- mapping the results from a survey of dog breeds and dog names throughtout
New York City. The most common dog names in NY? Female: Bella, Princess, and Lola;
Male: Max, Rocky, and Lucky. They also track dogs named after animals, gods, actors,
and more. It's all quite wonderful, and silly, but also a clever use of mapping.
3 to 10 March, 2013
Mercator Puzzle
A Drag-and-Drop puzzle, using Google Maps API. This is a
remarkable tool for showing the distortions of the Mercator Projection. The countries
that need to be dragged change size (but not shape or orientation) as you move them
around the map -- so you may not recognize a shape until you've dragged it around a bit
and said "ah ha!". Example -- Greenland is shown overlapping a tiny bit of South
America, but as you drag it north, it enlarges, and fits the Greenland underlay on the
map. Have fun.
10 to 17 March, 2013
Get A Customer Service Human
Being
OK, not a geography site, but this is an amazing service and
tool. You want to talk to customer service at, say, Amazon, and nothing on their
website helps you. Go to this site, and type "amazon" into the search box, and you get
a number and several other options, and comments from other users about the best choice
to use. Doesn't matter what company you want to reach, their number is most likely
here.
17 to 24 March, 2013
The US Redrawn
as 50 States with Equal Population
An art project, not a political statement, but fascinating as
both geography and politics. Because the largest state is 66 times as populous as the
smallest and has 18 times as many electoral votes, Electoral College results don't match
the popular vote. The 2010 Census records a population of 308,745,538 for the United
States, which this map divides into 50 states, each with a population of about
6,175,000. Fun to ponder.
24 to 31 March, 2013
The Scale of the Universe
Click "start". Use the scroll bar to zoom in and out from the
entire universe to quarks. Click on objects to learn more about them. An amazing
effort by a couple of California teenagers.
31 March to 7 April, 2013
Online Map Errors
Jonathan Crowe, who for many years ran the blog called The Map
Room, now just runs hiw own blog at jonathancrowe.net. The page linked here, from
the archives of The Map Room, is a collection of online map goofs and errors and
failures. Entertaining and remarkable.
7 to 14 April, 2013
Gravity Map of the Moon
A perfectly cueball-shaped moon would have uniform gravity. As
they write: "If the Moon were a perfectly smooth sphere of uniform density, the gravity
map would be a single, featureless color, indicating that the force of gravity at a
given elevation was the same everywhere. But like other rocky bodies in the solar
system, including Earth, the Moon has both a bumpy surface and a lumpy interior.
Spacecraft in orbit around the Moon experience slight variations in gravity caused by
both of these irregularities." Interesting to ponder.
14 to 21 April, 2013
The Geography of Gun
Ownership
A fascinating look at gun ownership in the US, by state, with a
link to the wikipedia page about gun violence by state; the discovery to be made here is
that the most-armed states are not necessarily the states with the most gun violence. An
interesting addition to the conversation.
21 to 28 April, 2013
Teaching With Maps
From the University At Buffalo Map Collection, this very useful
page called "Teaching With Maps"; it links to map sources, resources, and sites with
geographical data. You can find links to big map collections, as well as to country
maps, GIS maps and shapefiles, gazetteers, outline maps, and more. A great tool.
28 April to 5 May, 2013
The CIA World Factbook
The top page of one of the most useful resources on the web or
in print, The CIA World Factbook "provides information on the history, people,
government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and
transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the
major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a
Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World
map." This is a site where you can quickly drill down for the information you're
looking for, or you can simply stay and play indefinitely.
5 to 12 May, 2013
Maps of India
This is one page from a remarkable site, Maps of India has just
about every piece of information you want to find about India, in maps -- physical and
political geography, road maps, rail and air networks, hotels and temples and hill
stations, and on this particular page, links to maps and information on the States and
Union Territory. Some ads to wade through, but worth the effort.
12 to 19 May, 2013
Projection
Transitions
Mike Bostock designs interactive graphics for The New York
Times, and does a lot of work with methods for data visualization. This page is ONE of
many he has created to show different map projections and their relative distortions of
shape and size. To see the amazing range of his work, go to http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock and
scan through the hundreds of displays of information he has posted
19 to 26 May, 2013
A "Who Do You Hang With"
Map of America
An NPR report on a project to track the circulation of dollar
bills, to see where people "do stuff together". Using data from Where's George, the researchers tracked where
money goes, and -- also interesting -- where it doesn't go. One discovery -- virtual
borders, lines that money rarely cross.
26 May to 2 June, 2013
Azimuthal Map Generator
The most common Azimuthal maps are polar projections, with North
or South Pole at the center, and all the lines of latitude shown as concentric circles
around that Pole. But these maps can be centered anywhere, and can tell you useful
things; they preserve directions from the central point, and great circle routes from or
through the central points show up as straight lines. So you can quickly calculate what
direction to travel from the central point to get somewhere else, and how far away it
is. Ham Radio Operators use these to see which direction to turn their antenna arrays
for best reception of signals from remote places, and so it's unsurprising that Ham
Radio Operators have created generators for these maps. This one does all the
calculations and creates a map for you that is then automatically downloaded as a pdf.
Here's another
azimuthal map generator.
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