A funny page that shows you the world’s largest lake, largest island, and the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island — and everything in between.
16 Awesome Data Visualization Tools
“From navigating the Web in entirely new ways to seeing where in the world twitters are coming from, data visualization tools are changing the way we view content. We found the following 16 apps both visually stunning and delightfully useful.” (Thanks Mapping-news.com!)
The London Underground diagrams
“If you’re going underground, why do you need bother about geography? It’s not so important. Connections are the thing… Transport for London provide nine current official versions and two interactive variants of the London Underground network diagram. The design has undergone constant tweaking, both to accommodate new stations and to clarify the network…”
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feedmap .net (BETA) : Where Blogs Meet Maps
“Using FeedMap you can geo-code your blog, browse already geo-coded blogs and search for blogs. Once geo-coded, you can get your own BlogMap location using a simple url that allows you to network with your local bloggers and much more!”
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DIY Map
“A clickable, zooming map written in Flash and colored by data from an external text file. The external data file makes it easy to customize and update, and to use the same Flash file many times in the same Web page with different data sets.”
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Surveying & Mapping Equipment
“Nineteenth century engineers used a variety of scientific instruments in gathering the data to complete their maps. These included the following items…” (Thanks The Map Room!)
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Mappr! Where It’s At.
“Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take. By adding geographical information to the wealth of photographs found online, it allows new ways of looking at spaces and images. Mappr adds place to pictures. Mappr takes advantage of the cornucopia of descriptive information provided by Flickr’s users to organize their photos.”
Urban Cartography
“Urban Cartography is a collaborative weblog (i.e., anyone can contribute, and we wish you would; just write us for a posting account) dedicated to covering cartography and related subjects: urban planning, land use, imaging, GIS technology, urban studies and anything else that fits under the umbrella.”
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Jonathan J. Harris / Non-Geographic Mapping
“This experimental map was produced for Princeton University’s International Networks Archive, an organization dedicated to finding a new way of mapping our world. The INA believes that geography is becoming increasingly irrelevant, and that there should be a new system of mapping, based on global transactions instead of geography. This map is an exploration into this theory, and reconfigures 23 world cities based on travel time between the cities instead of distance.”
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