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Thursday, July 4, 2013

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This site has evolved into a repository of resources and links to all things related to mapping.  Its not really a blog, and for now I will keep it this way.
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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

  • Map of the Week
    U.S. Interventions in Latin America - Many numbers can be tossed around about how much the United States has intervened in Latin American countries. In the case of this map, there have been 5...
    14 hours ago
  • The Map Room
    A Global View of Wildfires - The Guardian maps the devastation wrought by wildfires across the globe. “Brazil, Bolivia, Russia, Australia and Canada have all endured some of their wors...
    14 hours ago
  • Google Maps Mania
    The World on Fire - The Guardian has Mapped: how the world is losing its forests to wildfires and, in the process, managed to transform abstract climate statistics into clear,...
    20 hours ago
  • Google LatLong
    60 of our biggest AI announcements in 2025 - Look back on Google AI news in 2025 across Gemini, Search, Pixel and more products.
    3 weeks ago
  • Making Maps: DIY Cartography
    Making Maps now at makingmaps.substack.com -
    11 months 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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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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