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This update includes a test of all external links, and a renewal and reformatting of the blogroll.  Overall the resources on the page continue to be useful, and the links haven't changed that much. 

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Saturday, October 28, 2017

BBC on Maps

http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20161007-why-paper-road-maps-wont-die

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160614-maps-have-north-at-the-top-but-it-couldve-been-different

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32545974

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141127-the-last-unmapped-places

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GeoLinks

  • A digital geography manifesto Jonathan Raper
  • Atlas of Suburbanisms
  • CartoTalk
  • Deep Geography
  • EO Image of the Day
  • Maps as History
  • Sound Around You
  • Spatial Thinking Tutorial
  • The History of Cartography
  • Web_2.0_and_Emerging_Learning_Technologies/GIS

Great Maps

  • Chatty Maps
  • David Rumsey Map Collection
  • Don Valley Historical Mapping Project
  • Global Weather
  • Historical Atlas of Canada
  • Interactive Maps
  • Is Africa Bigger Than North America?
  • Old Maps Online
  • Ship Map
  • Sightsmap

Blogroll

  • Google Maps Mania
    165M Jobs - Mapped One Dot at a Time - If you zoom in on Las Vegas on the 165M US Jobs by Sector map you probably won't be surprised to discover that huge numbers of people in the city work in t...
    7 hours ago
  • The Map Room
    Maps and Art: Ed Fairburn, Maps as Decor - Geoawesome’s Aleks Buczkowski looks at the art of Ed Fairburn, who combines portraiture with maps—basically, maps with a human face. “Fairburn’s work sits ...
    15 hours ago
  • Map of the Week
    Internet Traffic and the Strait of Hormuz - Oil isn’t the only thing passing through the Strait of Hormuz. 30% of the world’s data traffic also passes through there and 90% of the traffic between ...
    1 day ago
  • Google LatLong
    Simulate real-world places with Project Genie and Street View - We’re connecting Project Genie with nearly 20 years of Google Street View imagery so you can create new worlds anchored in reality.
    1 day ago
  • Making Maps: DIY Cartography
    Making Maps now at makingmaps.substack.com -
    1 year ago
  • The Wandering Cartographer
    Constructing the Pattern on the Sala de la Barca Ceiling - I was flipping through Owen Jones’s Grammar of Ornament a couple months ago, and my eye was caught by this handsome pattern I had not noticed before. This ...
    2 years ago
  • Strange Maps | Big Think
    Did dark magic conjure up the British Empire? - - An unremarkable stone circle in Mudchute Park is said to have a wild and dark history. - Legend has it that this is where John Dee used magic ...
    4 years ago
  • Cartonerd
    Favourite maps from 2019 - Maps that cross my path must be getting better. Since I started this blog as a way to critique what I perceived as poorly designed maps, the number of blog...
    6 years ago
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Geospatial Data

  • Canadian GIS and Geomatics
  • Natural Earth
  • Scholars Geoportal

Mapping Sites

  • GeoKov Map Maker
  • Livingmaps Network
  • Make Maps People Want to Look At
  • OpenStreetMap
  • Radical Cartography
  • Story Maps
  • UCSB Centre for Spatial Studies
  • WorldMap

Mapping Tools

  • batchgeo
  • GPS Visualizer
  • Google Planimeter
  • MapShaper

Video Links

  • Canadian Geographic Miniseries
  • Concentric Circles Emanating From Glowing Red Dot
  • Geospatial Revolution - Penn State
  • Map Vost
  • West Wing Clip
  • What does the earth look like?

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