Cartography/maps

• Maps from Delorme
• A mapview from Xerox
• A navigable map of Japan
• A navigable map of Europe
• Make your own map of Canada
• The Atlas of Canadian Communities.
• Current weather maps and movies
• Map Collection
• Clickable map of the UK and Ireland
• Maps for kids
• Cartography Resources on the Web
• National Atlas on SchoolNet (Canada)
• Making Maps Easy to Read
• Perseus Atlas Project
• Ptolemy's Geography
• Earth Viewer
• Vauxhall Traffic Information UK Map
• Rare Map Collection
• Geocities - Creating a Map of Locations in the USA
• Maps and Cartography
• Cartography/Geoscience Sites
• MapQuest
• Designing Animated Maps for a Multimedia Encyclopedia
• The Great Globe Gallery
• Stories and Maps
• Types of Thematic Maps
• Internet Web Text: Cyber Atlas
• Cartography - elements of cartography
• Geospace Picture Gallery
• Cartographic Communication
• 3G on W3: The Great Globe Gallery
• Online Map Creation
• Cartography and the Internet
• GeoSystems: The Map Room
• CGRER NetSurfing: Maps and References
• Ground Time-in-Transit Maps
• US Population Migration Animation
• Maps Alive: Viewing Geospatial Information on the WWW
• Boulder Community Network Geography Center
• Spatial Information Customer Support Center
• Spatial Visualization Through Cartographic Animation: Theory And Practice
• Research Directions in Cartography: Web Based Maps Versus Paper Maps
• Teaching Animated Cartography
• Maps On The Web
• The Extraction of the Warntz Network from Grid Digital Elevation Models - a postscript file
• Differences in Feature Representation
• Atlas of the World
• Cartographic Images Home Page
• PALEOMAP Foundation
• Glossary of Cartographic Terms
• Maps On Us: A Map, Route and Yellow Pages Service
• Maps
• Topography of the World - a Java Applet
• Maps & Cartography
• The History of Cartography Project - The History of Cartography Project is a research, editorial, and publishing venture drawing international attention to the history of maps and mapping. The Project's major work is the multi-volume History of Cartography series. Its interdisciplinary approach brings together scholars in the arts, sciences, and humanities. By considering previously ignored aspects of cartographic history, the Project encourages a broader view of maps that has significantly influenced other fields of study.
• Ordnance Survey: Britain's National Mapping Agency
• GeoSystems Global Corp. Home Page
• Oddens's Bookmarks - Huge number of links to maps and mapping resources
• Microsoft Expedia Maps - Place Finder
• CyberAtlas: Traffic Patterns: Top 25 Web Sites and Properties
• Mapping The World By Heart: A Page of Geographic Links
• Lefty's Map & Geography Links
• Historic Atlas Resource - Europe
• Cartography - Map Projections
• Notes on Mapping the Net
• Value of Maps
• If all you need is a map...
• Sites of Interest to Canadian Cartographers
• Canadian Communities Atlas - The Canadian Communities Atlas offers a unique national network of geographic information by providing schools the opportunity to create an Internet-based Atlas of their community.
• Resources Atlas - This site enables you to combine layers of information to produce a composite map of Canada. You can also link to other Resources Initiative sites for more information about your area of interest.
• The Atlas of Mortality in Europe
• The Science of Success in Cartography
• Ireland History in Maps
• TopoZone - The Web's Topographic Map - We've worked with the USGS to create the Web's first interactive topo map of the entire United States.
• Paleomap Project - Earth maps and research findings for each of earth's geological periods. These maps may answer simple questions such as where was Gondwana or Pangaea, what was earth like in Middle Silurian or when did North and South China come together? It also depicts the supercontinent that may form in the next 250 million years.
• Mapping Canada - Political history of Canada's borders 1700-present. Includes timeline and corresponding maps.
• Research Directions in Cartography - As we near the year 2000, we continue to see greater and greater advances in technology every day. It seems that no matter what discipline one is in, there is no escape from the furthering of use, technology and knowledge. Cartography is not immune to this and in fact, cartography is thriving because of this. In the not too distant past, we often would wonder at the marvel of what these "new" computers could do--now it seems that we are often disappointed at what a computer can not do. Now that we have been given a glimpse of what is possible, we want more. Again, that is the case in cartography. A research objective of mine is to look more closely at how QuickTimeVR can be used to add interaction to cartographic animation. I feel strongly about interactive cartography and I believe that Apple's QTVR (which is available for a number of different platforms) can serve as a medium to deliver cartographic work into another level. A map on its own is an interactive piece. Depending on the use of the map and even more importantly, depending on the individual user, a map of any shape and size takes on different characteristics for different individuals. Although we usually only think of a map as being just a static piece of paper, in reality, every map tells a story. QTVR can be used effectively to tell a story better.
• Map History / History of Cartography - Old maps, early maps - non-current maps in general - are the subject of this site. Whether you are an academic, family historian, collector, teacher, parent or surfer - WELCOME! Use this site to find the worthwhile information about old maps, both on the web and in the real world. The site's 100 or so 'pages' offer comment and guidance, and over 2,500 annotated links - selected for relevance and quality. Because the information is logically organised in a directory structure, you should easily find what you want.
• Images of early maps on the web - The only comprehensive listing of its kind, comprising almost 600 links - updated each month.
• Great Lakes Atlas - 3rd Edition - The third edition of this atlas consists of a revision and update of the original document produced by Environment Canada, United States Environmental Protection Agency and authored by Lee Botts and Bruce Krushelnicki. Six maps originally produced by Brock University Cartography Group have been retained in this revised edition. The high quality cartography was recognized by the British Cartographical Society and received an award for excellence in cartography and design in 1988.
• North American Cartographic Information Society
• John Snow - a historical giant in epidemiology - Well designed site on the life and works of John Snow, the famous 19th century London physicist and epidemiologist who first related cholora to water pump infection using maps. The site features many navigable maps of Victorian London and original texts, including one from The Lancet, questioning the role maps played in the discovery of the source of infection.
• A Tapestry of Time and Terrain - Well designed and compact site featuring the combination two USGS maps: the geological map (colors) and the topographic map (elevation in 3D). A Quicktime animation shows how the two merge. The combined result is very informative of the geologic genesis of the lower 48 US states. The maps come with a short description of 48 features (Grand Canyon, Central Valley, Yellowstone, etc., some with additional satellite images), and an interactive legend annex geological time scale. Sections of the scale are clickable and lead to maps indicating the presence of that rock form that specific era or period. A section showing the borders of physiographic regions of the US rounds up the site.
• National Geodetic Survey - NGS provides Federal leadership in developing standards and specifications for conducting geodetic surveys, coordinates the development and application of new surveying instrumentation and procedures, and conducts cooperative programs to assist local organizations, including technical workshops conducted throughout the US. There's lots of cool info at this site... be sure to check out the numerous free downloads!
• The Canadian Communities Atlas
• US Community Atlas
• Geography - Cartography - Mapping - Field Methods - GPS - Orienteering
• The Canadian Cartographic Association (CCA) - On this web site you will find information concerning the CCA activities, conference material, information about the CCA publications, interest groups and awards. You will also find our pamphlet devoted to the careers in cartography, and links to useful internet web sites.
• Welcome to the International Cartographic Association
• Society of Cartographers (UK)
• American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
• North American Cartographic Information Society
• Mapping Sciences Institute, Australia
• California Map Society
• Oriental Institute Map Series
• Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice
• Home Page - The National Atlas of the United States of America - Work on a new National Atlas of the United StatesÆ began in 1997. This Atlas updates a large bound collection of paper maps that was published in 1970. Like its predecessor, this edition promotes greater national geographic awareness. It delivers easy to use, map-like views of America's natural and sociocultural landscapes. Unlike the previous Atlas, this version is largely digital. The new National Atlas includes products and services designed to stimulate children and adults to visualize and understand complex relationships between environments, places, and people. It contributes to our knowledge of the environmental, resource, demographic, economic, social, political, and historical dimensions of American life.
• Map Libraries on the World Wide Web
• Smart numbers add up to free deal for data customers - Unique building codes herald dawn of digital map revolution - National mapping agency Ordnance Survey is offering its data customers a free taste of the future with the launch of a digital index of all Britain's 40 million buildings.
• National Imagery and Mapping Agency
• Ideological Propaganda in Maps and Geographical Education - Society's systems of socialization, including primarily the educational system, constitute a linking factor between knowledge and ideology. According to Foucault, ideology makes use of education for the purpose of survival, continuity and perpetuation of values. From the behavioral point of view, there is an assumption that the creation of a feeling of territorial belonging, which helps the individual locate himself in the world, is very important for the shaping of an individual's personality and worldview. From society's perspective, states saw a need to include geography as a subject in the schools when nationalism flourished in Europe in the 19th century; this aided the achievement of nationalism's political goals. It seems, therefore, that geography as taught in schools plays an important role in shaping the attitude towards territory and nationalism, because geography links the ideas which Taylor calls "the basic trilogy: territory-state-nation," . The devices and subjects for increasing man's identification with territory are to be found in the area of "territorial socialization", and these are expressed in the products which society produces and markets in the educational system and in the media. In the current article we will begin with the above-described general concept, in an attempt to analyze the way in which cartographic devices are created and used for the purposes of territorial socialization. After a general discussion on the subject of cartography, propaganda and ideology, we will take several examples from the Israeli case to illustrate the conclusions of the said discussion. The choice of these examples is not coincidental; rather, the cases were chosen for their ability to boldly demonstrate the conclusions; moreover, we can learn from them about the possible relationships which could exist between cartography and geographical education.
• Interactive Mapping on the World Wide Web - The World Wide Web is a promising new media for cartography. It allows the creation of interactive maps that can be accessed by the general public. There is a wide variety both in methods used and in the overall quality of current Web sites. This report reviews the state of interactive mapping on the World Wide Web and offers some guidelines for creating successful interactive mapping Web sites.
• Interactive Mapping Resources - This web site is designed to help people construct web sites featuring interactive maps. As a research project I wrote a set of simple design guidelines. In the process I have also collected some links for more technical assistance.
• Great Lakes Atlas - 3rd Edition - The third edition of this atlas consists of a revision and update of the original document produced by Environment Canada, United States Environmental Protection Agency and authored by Lee Botts and Bruce Krushelnicki. Six maps originally produced by Brock University Cartography Group have been retained in this revised edition. The high quality cartography was recognized by the British Cartographical Society and received an award for excellence in cartography and design in 1988.
• The Future of the National Mapping Program | Mapping Science Committee - The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has an exceptional opportunity to contribute significantly to the overall economy of the United States by becoming proactive in managing spatially referenced digital data (srdd). This conclusion was reached by the Mapping Science Committee in its study of the technological transformation that has occurred in recent years related to the integration, processing, and display of spatial data for the purposes of making decisions. If ours is to be an information-based economy that is competitive on a global basis, there is a critical need for a coordinated and efficient national information infrastructure to facilitate the sharing and communication of information resources. This must include a geographic or spatial data component dealing essentially with where things are to support all manner of resource, transportation, planning, administration, marketing, and communication activities. The most important function of the USGS's National Mapping Division (NMD) in the future will be to act as the federal coordinator of the national geographic data infrastructure, not just to produce maps and derived digital data.
• Beyond Geography: Mapping Unknowns of Cyberspace - Cyberspace maps are being produced by geographers, cartographers, artists and computer scientists. They range from glorious depictions of globe-spanning communications networks to maps of Web information. Many have no geographic references, instead turning to nature, the cosmos or neuroscience for spatial models. They stretch the definition of a map in their effort to capture, sometimes fancifully, what is sometimes referred to as the "common mental geography" that lies beyond computer screens.
• Reality and Realities: A Brief Flight Through the Artificial Landscape of the Virtual Worlds - In the years to come it is likely that the twentieth century may be designated the golden era of cartography. The field once before (in the sixteenth century) experienced what amounted to a renaissance and reformation from the traditions originally established by the Greeks. The current rapid development may be a second reformation. Arthur H. Robinson in The Look of Maps, 1952 How real is reality?
• Modern Geomatics and National Development - Information technology is critical to national development. This paper will examine some of the major issues relating to this relationship by using the emerging field of geomatics as a specific example. First I would like to define briefly the two terms I am using. Geomatics is a collective term applied to what were previously independent fields of study such as cartography, photogrammetry and remote sensing, geodesy, GIS and other mapping sciences. Geomatics is defined as: " äa field of activities, which, using a systematic approach, integrates all the means used to acquire and manage spatial data required as part of scientific, administrative, legal and technical operations involved in the process of production and management of spatial information". (Canadian Institute of Geomatics, 1995) This field is now dominated by computer, telecommunications and other related information technologies.
• Web Cartography: developments and prospects - online book with illustrative maps.
• Exposing the 'Second Text' of Maps of the Net - Maps have long been recognised as important and powerful modes of visual ommunication. In this paper we examine critically maps which are being produced to represent and promote information and communication technologies and the use of cyberspace. Drawing on the approach of map deconstruction we attempt to read and expose the "second text" of maps of the Net. As such, we examine in detail a number of maps that display, with varying degrees of subtlety, the ideological agendas of cyberboosterism and techno-utopianism of their creators. A critical reading of these maps is important because they are widely reproduced and consumed on the Internet, in business and governmental reports, and in the popular press, all too often without a detailed consideration of the deliberate and intended messages being communicated. As we illustrate, many of these maps not only promote certain ideological messages but are often also poor in terms of cartographic design, with many containing serious ecological fallacies. We restrict our analyses to maps at the global scale.
• Maps and Geography @ nationalgeographic.com
• Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice
• GIS, Mapping, Database and 3D Software from Manifold Net - GIS technology can be used for scientific investigations, resource management, and development planning. For example, a Windows GIS might allow emergency planners to easily calculate emergency response times in the event of a natural disaster, or a GIS might be used to find wetlands that need protection from pollution. GIS and mapping software play a central role in the geographic decision making of cities, government, universities, military, environmental studies, and numerous institutions world wide. Software for GIS, especially high value or free software for GIS is of special importance. Manifold System is a typical modern Windows GIS. Universities can get it virtually free of charge, which was a key factor in its deployment. It can be used with more of the GIS data links and other GIS and mapping information on the Web than almost any other Windows GIS or mapping software at any price for any system.
• The Future of Animated Maps - It is difficult to say when the first union between maps and animation was made, but it is most probable that since motion pictures of any kind were not developed until the nineteenth century, that would have been the first time that such a merger would have been possible. Whether such an animation was made in the first silent films is unknown, and lack of access to those first films makes research in that direction impossible within the parameters of this paper. However, at some point after the invention of motion pictures, someone came up with the idea of making moving maps. A major development in this direction was the creation of cell-based animation.
• Mid-Continent Mapping Center Home Page - The Mid-Continent Mapping Center (MCMC) is one of several mapping centers in the National Mapping Division (NMD)within the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). MCMC is a production, research, and data management facility for maps and digital cartographic data products. The work of MCMC supports planning and development activities, construction projects, scientific studies, resource management, and environmental monitoring activities, nationwide, at every level of government, academia, and the private sector. MCMC evolved from an office of the USGS Topographic Division (now NMD) located on the campus of what was then the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy (now the University of Missouri-Rolla) in 1932. It now shares a building in Rolla with an office of the USGS Water Resources Division. MCMC employs more than 300 people as cartographers, engineers, technicians, computer scientists, computer programmers, and administrative staff.
• Criteria for Choosing a Map Projection
• Atlas Index - A collection of on-line maps covering wars from the eighteenth century to the present day.
• Cognitive And Cartographic Representations: Towards A Comprehensive Approach - In order to clearly understand the cognitive representations of the urban space, this paper presents an approach in three steps: identification, which highlights the importance of a place; its location more or less exact which indicates the level of the individual's spatial knowledge, and the description which specifies the significant attributes of these places for the interviewed individuals. In order to obtain comparable maps, a precise protocol is proposed for each step.
• Carto Corner - The National Atlas of Canada - The science of geography involves a combination of physical and cultural disciplines which are used to describe, explain and help us to understand our environment. However, it is cartography that is the essential tool for us to organize, depict and analyze this geographical information.
  The purpose of this module is to provide both students and teachers with on-line, interactive information on selected aspects of cartography. Self-contained units on the fundamentals of cartography are arranged in a logical order for individual learning purposes.
• Cognitive And Cartographic Representations: Towards A Comprehensive Approach - In order to clearly understand the cognitive representations of the urban space, this paper presents an approach in three steps: identification, which highlights the importance of a place; its location more or less exact which indicates the level of the individuals' spatial knowledge, and the description which specifies the significant attributes of these places for the interviewed individuals. In order to obtain comparable maps, a precise protocol is proposed for each step.
• KnowMap - The Knowledge Management, Auditing and Mapping Magazine - The Magazine is a bimonthly web-based journal targeted to the needs expressed by knowledge management practitioners for tangible tools and methods to ensure successful strategies and implementation of knowledge management initiatives.
• Spacial versus Spatial - I : Setting the Common Frames of Reference - As a Means of Finding Our Way Within, Between, and Beyond Places, Languages, and Cultures and of Knowing, Connecting, and Transcending Places, Languages, and Cultures.
  Why spacial and not spatial? The distinction between spatial (two-dimensional) and spacial (three-dimensional) was made for the conference on Global Change in Moscow in 1988. These differences between the abstract and flat spa-t-ial and the embodied deep spa-c-ial concepts might prepare us for the modern times of media and tele-technologies. The use of the new nested space-scapes may better help us combine and relate concepts and their context.
• National Geographic MapMachine--online atlas, street maps
• The History of Cartography Project - The History of Cartography Project is a research, editorial, and publishing venture drawing international attention to the history of maps and mapping. The Project's major work is the multi-volume History of Cartography series. Its interdisciplinary approach brings together scholars in the arts, sciences, and humanities. By considering previously ignored aspects of cartographic history, the Project encourages a broader view of maps that has significantly influenced other fields of study.
• Canadian Topographic Maps: Maps 101 - Topographic Maps, The Basics - Topographic maps produced by the Centre for Topographic Information of Natural Resources Canada are used for a wide variety of applications, from camping, canoeing, fishing and hiking to urban planning, resource development and surveying. Why? Because they represent the earth's features accurately and to scale, on a two-dimensional surface.
• Revealing Hidden Places: The Cryptome Eyeballing Map Series - Maps can reveal hidden places that are beyond our sight. But they also have a unique power to deceive us by deliberately not revealing what is actually on the ground. Governments have many secret places, sensitive sites and critical infrastructures that they wish to remain hidden from prying eyes. The one government with the most to hide is undoubtedly the United States with its huge military and security apparatus, operating from innumerable bases and bunkers spread across the globe. Indeed, there is great fascination in contemporary culture - bordering on X-Files paranoiac obsession for some - with the activities of this military-industrial complex, and in particular with seeing what is behind the formidable fences and intimidating 'no entry' signs of its hidden places. The Eyeballing project developed by activist John Young uses publicly available maps to give a view into some of these secret and sensitive sites across America.
  The project consists of series of individual 'eyeballing' web pages, each of which focuses on a particular military base, intelligence facility or other sensitive site, like nuclear power plants and dams. Eyeballing exploits the potential of hypertext to author a cartographic collage, piecing together a diverse range of aerial photographs, topographic maps at different scales, photographs, along with expert commentary by Young, annotated with corrections and clarifications emailed in from (anonymous) readers. There are also hyperlinks to supplementary documents and other relevant websites, while individual eyeballs pages are themselves cross referenced by hyperlinks. To produce the eyeballs Young only utilises public sources of maps and imagery, typically topographic mapping from MapQuest and aerial photography from Terraserver. Even though the 'eyeballs' have an unpolished, almost amateurish look to them, the series represents a novel and valuable atlas of hidden places.
• Remapping Our World - One main goal of the INA is to develop a new system of mapping our world -- one that does not rely on geography, but on more meaningful parameters like access to world markets or communications infrastructure.
  On the page are two maps developed for the INA by Jonathan Harris of Flaming Toast Productions. The first map reconfigures 23 world cities based on travel time between the cities instead of distance. You can click on different cities, and the other world cities will slide to reflect their travel time from the chosen hub. The second map is a dynamically generated system that is fed data files and automatically generates non-geographic maps based on the data set. It is still a work in progress, and many features have not yet been implemented.
  To view the interactive maps, you will need the Macromedia Flash 6 plugin.
• Mapping and Measuring Social Networks - Social Cartography - Social network analysis software and services for organizations and their consultants.
• Search US and Canada - Here's a cool new Map system by Google. Try the satellite feature also (upper right).
• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection - The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 11,000 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, childrens and manuscript maps. The collection can be used to study history, genealogy and family history.
• Google GlobeTrotting - Provides a gathering place for geo-geeks fascinated by landmarks, stadiums, theme parks, abandoned military installations, geologic anomalies, and the homes of the rich and famous.
• Google Earth - Explore, Search and Discover - Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
• Geoblog - experimental map of London UK - Click on small pictures of locations in the city to see an enlarged version
• GeoBlog = Flickr + Google Map - GeoBloggers is a cool hack that allows Flickr users to associates their photos to a location in google maps. The speed of the map drawing is not that impressive tho.
• Dreams 2 Text: The GeoSpatial Web - Right Click a Photo Go There!!! - On clicking "Go There", the browser would open a new Window and take you to the particular spot on the Map, on GoogleMaps or Geo Bloggers or Some other new service available at that point of time. There you will be able to explore around the map looking for other nearby photos or people or events or shops or statistics or whatever at that location using the co-ordinate information. You can do this because every photograph was taken Somewhere. It has the exact longitude,latitude co-ordinates embedded inside. Wondering what I am speaking about? Read my earlier posts if you are new to geoblogging geo tagging etc...
• MSN Virtual Earth - Virtual Earth combines mapping and local search to put the answers to your search questions in a geographical context. To do this, Virtual Earth combines MSN Search with the latest in mapping to create a new Web application built on Microsoft technology.
• USGS Node of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse - The USGS node of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse is a component of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). It provides a pathway to find information about geospatial or spatially referenced data available from USGS.
  The USGS node actually encompasses a distributed set of sites organized on the basis of the USGS's four principal data themes. The first, Geography, offers the familiar USGS topographic maps and other geographic products that have long been associated with USGS. These products typically are of general use across many disciplines for basemaps and other purposes. As Geographic Information Systems have come to play an increasingly important role in science, the biology, geology, and water disciplines also have produced important geographic data sets related to their themes. These thematic products are best found by discipline.
• Theban Mapping Project - Since its inception in 1978, the Theban Mapping Project (TMP, now based at the American University in Cairo) has been working to prepare a comprehensive archaeological database of Thebes. With its thousands of tombs and temples, Thebes is one of the world's most important archaeological zones. Sadly, however, it has not fared well over the years. Treasure-hunters and curio-seekers plundered it in the past; pollution, rising ground water, and mass-tourism threaten it in the present. Even early archaeologists destroyed valuable information in their search for museum-quality pieces.
• Iraq & Middle East Maps and dataOddens’ Bookmarks - Oddens' bookmarks was started in 1995 by Roelof Oddens, the curator of the map Library of the Faculty of GeoSciences. As an extra service for visitors of the map library he started collecting links about maps and mapping on the internet, at that point in time an emerging source of information.
• Blue Marble Navigator - The 'Blue Marble' picture of Earth is a composite created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for each month of the year 2004 to illustrate changes in snow cover and vegetation. This page features its maximum resolution of four pixels per km² (18000 times more detailed than the map below), made navigable by dividing it into clickable tiles.
• Microsoft's Plan to Map the World in Real Time - Researchers at Microsoft are working on technology that they hope will someday enable people to browse online maps for up-to-the-minute information about local gas prices, traffic flows, restaurant wait times, and more. Eventually, says Suman Nath, a Microsoft researcher who works on the project, which is called SenseWeb, they would like to incorporate the technology into Windows Live Local (formerly Microsoft Virtual Earth), the company's online mapping platform.
• A Weblog about Maps - The Map Room is a blog about maps for a general audience, covering everything from collecting old maps to the latest technologies.
• Putting Pictures in Their Place - The popular photo-sharing website Flickr has made it easy to place pictures on a map--potentially changing Web search, travel, and local news.
• NeoGeography - There seems to be incredible passion and energy these days around geography, mapping, locative devices, psychogeography, and how they all are going to tie into our technologically infused lives. Platial exists as a way for a lot of these passionate individuals to come together and combine and layer their work in the context of others.
• World Geography: Maps and Satellite Images - Growing collection of over 160 country maps paired with Landsat images. If you like one of our images please link to the page where the image is shown instead of directly to the image file. Thank you!
• Collection of 250 U.S. state maps - Each state includes a raised relief map, elevation map, rivers map, political map and roads/cities map. These link to our state and city satellite images, waterfalls map, state high points map and more. If you like one of our images please link to the page where the image is shown instead of directly to the image file. Thank you!
• Meander 1.6 Offers Map Measurement, Route Plotting - Meander 1.6, published by Acutus Trading Ltd. and available for download at www.macmeander.com, is a nifty little mapping utility that is used, per the Web site, to "Plot/Measure routes on any map; Save/Print/Export the results!" It's really that simple. Meander provides a way to plot and measure routes on any map that can be displayed on screen, whether it's a scanned image, a screenshot from a Web site like Google Maps or Mapquest, or an image file such as a JPG or PDF. The file format doesn't matter to Meander, as it doesn't interact with the file itself, only the file's screen representation. Version 1.6 was released June 12, 2007, and requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
• Locate multiple addresses - calculate distances - make your own mashup map - instantly - Take any kind of street address list, for example copied from Excel, and geocode the addresses to get latitude and longitude coordinates using the tool below. The data can then be mapped in your browser, downloaded into Google Earth, saved to a web page, or transferred back into your spreadsheet. You can also use this tool to calculate distances to multiple addresses from a single point, or get quick driving directions to multiple destinations. Mapping multiple locations with your own custom data takes seconds, just follow the 6 steps below to plot your own data on a fully interactive multi-point map. It's fast, easy, and - free to use!
• MetaCarta - MetaCarta's unique technology combines traditional text (keyword) search with powerful geographic search so you can find content about a place and view the results on a map. We work with any mapping system and can help you locate unstructured information in just about any format across the Internet, file shares, and content management systems or repositories.
• YourStreet - YourStreet transforms the way you experience local news by indexing and mapping thousands of articles, blogs, and conversations down to the street level. YourStreet connects you to the local information that impacts you most Ð what's going on in your town, your neighborhood and even your block. YourStreet scans thousands of newspaper sites and local blogs each day to bring you the most comprehensive local news available anywhere. Our algorithm interprets the articles, identifies specific locations in the text, and plots them on an interactive map. We also use and highly recommend the excellent MetaCarta service to assist in location identification. Drag the map or zoom in to get more information about a location. You can view articles and local conversations from today, the last 7 days, last 30 days and last 90 days. Find out what's happening around your home, your work, your child's school, or any other location in the country. You can get involved in lots of ways: Comment on an article Start or add to a local conversation Create a user profile to let your neighbors know who you are So jump in, share your voice, meet your neighbors, and find out everything that's going on around you.
• Making Maps: DIY Cartography - Resources and Ideas for Making Maps
• Parent tree for Mapping, Cartography and the things you need to think about when making maps. - Huge collection of links related to maps and cartography

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