Video Tutorials

Short videos are an excellent way to learn a software technique.  It might be useful to create a space on the blog to organize and access such video tutorials.
Here is a good site for Google Earth video tutorials.

Here's another kind of video that shows a map being created using heads-up digitizing from an image. 

Navigating Map Rap

Map Rap is laid out pretty much like a conventional blog.

Under the blog title are the Introduction to Map Rap, a library of Bookmarks to geospatial websites, a list of key websites in Canada, and some Readings.

The middle panel has two kinds of content (so far):

- periodic notes on the development of the geospatial web, as well as the blog itself.

- links to resources, including:  geospatial tools, and articles related to various issues and applications

 The left panel has two columns providing links to other blogs that relate to maps and the geospatial web.  Each blog is continuously updated, which makes this my favourite component of Map Rap.

On the right panel are Exhibits that present the geospatial web in different ways.  Under Geolinks are direct links to useful websites related to the geospatial. Labels are helpful when searching the blog for topics like tools, issues and applications.