(by 4 people)
Navigating our world has been forever enticing and challenging. Map making, editing and interpreting has seriously evolved. With new tools like GPS devices, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) touching more of us and Google, National Geographic Society and other organizations building more, rich access to views and coordinates -- we are increasingly surrounded by the visual influence of MAPS.
Maps, What A Perspective
- Map Machine
- National Geographic's interactive mapping service.
- Earth from Google
- Current world geographic imagery easy to navigate and online.
- One Planet, Many People
- Maps, reports and other imagery from the U.N. Environment Program.
- Photo Overlay Of World Map
- Built with Flickr, these folks connected photos to their location in the world. It's a creative application and they give guidance to build your own.
- Ingo Gunther's Globes
- German artist Ingo Gunther uses data on life expectancy, energy consumption, balance of trade, languages and others and overlays them on globes.
- Art Meets Cartography
- An article from The Guardian highlights maps of world cities and the view they create as we digest them. The descriptive map of London Poverty from the London Topographical Society is a must see.
Mapping and Tools From The Blogosphere
- Mapping and Land Use
- This blog connects two topics naturally linked, maps and how we 'manage' and use land.
- On Mapping
- A blog fluent in maps. Regular updates on mapping technologies, directions and misdirections of cartography and topo insights.
- GPS Help
- For many, the first tool of navigation may be a GPS. Here's a few navigation gadget highlights from the folks at Engadget.
- Engadget: On GPS
- With Bluetooth, some with weather forecast capability, soon coming to your mobile phone...GPS
- Find A Friend
- Boing Boing, GPS and a friend location device.
- Biology On The Move
- These folks are engaging in an experiment using mapping and bio-metrics to propose, assess and understand community (mass) emotion...
Books And Of Course, Maps
- Topo Maps For Sale
- Trails.com is a comprehensive site with trail maps available for plenty of treks throughout the U.S.
- Mapping and Inner Earth
- Alibris sells rare and otherwise hard to find books. This selection, on maps, is a pretty broad and unusual one.
- Handheld GPS
- GPS devices are getting more sophisticated, smaller and cheaper. Here's some of the latest handhelds.
- Sierra Club Guide To Navigation
- On land with compass, maps and sometimes GPS this is a practical handbook.
