Cartography
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Cartography, general, Human Geography
5,000 Years of Rule in the Middle East
With the Iraq war very current for the US, especially in the media, it sometimes helps to take a bit of an historical view of the region. Simply put, the […]
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Cartography, general, WebMapping
TeleAtlas MapInsight – users help improve data accuracy
TeleAtlas has a new service in limited release – MapInsight – where users can report errors in TeleAtlas’ addressing data layers. After a year of all those stories about drivers […]
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MapMarketplace – the Cafepress for cartographers
Maps.com, a leading online map seller, has launched a new service called MapMarketplace, a kind of CafePress for cartographers where you can sell your cartographic masterpieces. “MapMarketplace creates an opportunity […]
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Blue Planet Globe – for the geographer who has everything
I admit I am an HGTV junkie, especially the show called “I Want That!”. This past weekend’s episode included the Blue Planet Globe, from The Science Source Here is the […]
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Cartography, general, GIS_Software, Physical Geography, WebMapping
Amazon GIS
I haven’t highlighted a really good GIS project in awhile, so I thought I’d mention the Amazon GIS project, run by the Smithsonian Institution and other collaborators. They have spent […]
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Cartography, general, Human Geography
Mapping the World’s Languages
Dr. Steven Huffman has posted a series of maps of the world’s language families, based on Merritt Ruhlen’s “A Guide to the World’s Languages”, as a project using Global Mapping […]
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Cartography, general, WebMapping
Mapping gas prices across the US
Gasbuddy.com has put together an interactive map of gas prices by county around the US. Just right click on the county you want to check out. Of course, it might […]
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Cartography, general, Human Geography
Maps of the Religions of the US
Here’s an interesting site that shows the US broken down by religion. Unfortunately, the maps are all stand alone GIF files, one for each denomination. It would be interesting to […]
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Cartography, general, Human Geography
Visualizing World Population
The Hive Group created this cool visualization of population facts for the world’s countries using 2004 CIA Factbook data. In addition to representing countries in a tree structure that can […]
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Cartography, general, Physical Geography
North American Paleogeography Maps
A couple of days ago, the Cartography blog linked to Dr. Robert Blakely’s site with over 40 amazing maps of the paleogeography of North America. As archaeologists in our previous […]
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