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Saturday, April 3, 2021

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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
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  • Sound Around You
  • Spatial Thinking Tutorial
  • The History of Cartography
  • Web_2.0_and_Emerging_Learning_Technologies/GIS

Great Maps

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  • Don Valley Historical Mapping Project
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  • Historical Atlas of Canada
  • Interactive Maps
  • Is Africa Bigger Than North America?
  • Old Maps Online
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Blogroll

  • Google Maps Mania
    Polygon Map Effects - I'm not sure how useful this is - but I had a lot of fun creating it.Polygon Effects is an interactive 3D map that brings simple extruded polygons to life ...
    3 hours ago
  • Map of the Week
    The U.S. Master Plan for Gaza. - At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, real estate developer Jared Kushner unveiled the administration’s plans for Gaza. This map is ...
    1 day ago
  • The Map Room
    Le Jour de la Carte - More than a hundred map-related events are taking place today (4 February 2026) in France, plus a few elsewhere, as part of the first Jour de la Carte (Day...
    1 day ago
  • Google LatLong
    Gemini in navigation is now available for walking and cycling in Google Maps. - Gemini in navigation helps you get things done while driving — it’s like talking to a friend in the passenger seat. Now, it’s launching for walking and cyc...
    1 week 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 ...
    1 year 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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Mapping Sites

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  • 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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