Hot on the heels of finding out about the GeoGraph project in the UK comes the “Your History Here . com – where’s your place?” project. This uses Google Maps to create links to historic information related to locations. Take a look. Via Google Maps Mania
VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 08 September 11, 2005 Main Topic: Space and place. Click for the detailed shownotes
This is more Geology than physical geography, but it is still a great concept for a learning park. BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | First Scottish Geopark launched
Opensourcegis.org is one of several websites offering an index of Open Source GIS related applications and tools. As of 9/9/05, the site had 196 projects listed. http://opensourcegis.org/
WildFinder is the World Wildlife Fund’s web map-driven, searchable database on wildlife species worldwide, which was developed by ESRI and the private firm BlueRaster. Check it out at http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildfinder/ Via GeoPlace
The Register has an interesting article showing images garnered from Google Earth. I think the title is a tad sensationalist, but the article is interesting. Google Earth threatens democracy
This is a standard text search as opposed to some of the others that search based on tags. A with any attempt to search blog entries, it is quit overwhelming. That said it is still fun to play with. Google BlogSearch Via Digg
Missed this one over the weekend. A harrowing tale of a girl and her knowledge of physical geography. I will put money that she becomes an english major after all of the press on her physical science prowess BBC NEWS | UK | Award for tsunami warning pupil Via Helen’s musings on life etc.
