National Geographic Maps USA Explorer Map

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Accuracy and beauty from the cartographers at National Geographic. - An incredibly elegant addition to any home or office. -Mounted on wood material with black beveled edges and a keyhole hanging slot on the back. -Revision Date: 2007 National Geographic Maps - MM620504BL

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Chicago in Maps: 1612-2002

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Chicago in Maps is a luxuriously illustrated cartographic history of Chicago, known for centuries as the gateway city to the West. The powerful and evocative documents reproduced here offer an unprecedented avenue to the city's past-a fascinating collective portrait of the evolution of one of America's great towns. Among the seventy-four maps featured, many are seminal exemplars of this timeless art form the "Kinzie Map," which accompanied the Narrative of the Massacre of 1812; the Rand McNally "View of the World's Columbian Exposition" of 1893; Daniel Burnham's influential "Chicago Plan" of 1909, which epitomized the ambitions of the City Beautiful Movement; WT Stead's "Map of Sin"; and Bruce-Roberts' 1931 "Gangland Map"-a tongue-in-cheek "expos " of a city populated by such powerful underworld figures as Al Capone, "Baby Face" Nelson, "Machine Gun" Kelly, and others, indicating various gang territories and warehouses. Filled with fascinating historical anecdotes and detailed scholarship, Chicago in Maps is a work that will be highly prized by map lovers and history buffs alike. It is a sumptuous feast of glorious full-color reproductions of maps by the some of the world's most extraordinary cartographers

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Real-Time Planes & Ships on Google Maps

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This amazing Spanish Google Map seems to have set itself the task of tracking in real-time just about anything that moves. The map shows in real-time the location of ships, planes, mobile phones and satellites in and around and over Spain.

A really nice feature of the map is that as well as viewing the real-time locations of the ships and planes you can select an individual vessel and view an animation of its movements over the last 24 hours. It is also possible to select to view wind speeds and the current weather forecast on the map.

The mobile phone tracking seems to track just the one phone (presumably the map's creator). When I viewed the map it showed only the one track in Burgos. There are also a lot of other features to play with on this map. It shows upcoming boat races in Spain, the locations of weather stations, information from Spanish marinas and the position of satellites.

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Open Innovators on Google Maps

Open Innovations Map

The Open Innovations Map is an interactive database of key players in the field of open innovation worldwide. The directory of key players, including detailed information about each member and their network with other subscribers, can be accessed and viewed on a Google Map

The open innovators have been categorised into three groups 'Ideators' (startups, entrepreneurs, developers etc.), 'Scouts' (corporate ventures, business angels etc.) and 'Open Innovators' (corporations, public bodies etc.).

The directory includes a 'User-Generated Content' feature that enables users to join the OIM database by subscribing to the project, and then create a network with other participants.

20 Centuries of World Maps

Though technology has changed the tools of navigation available to us, maps are still the irreplaceable foundation of place and orientation. In this updated edition of Image of the World, map expert Peter Whitfield guides readers through a collection of so… more »

Maps: Finding Our Place in the World

Maps are universal forms of communication, easily understood and appreciated regardless of culture or language. This truly magisterial book introduces readers to the widest range of maps ever considered in one volume maps from different time periods and a… more »

National Geographic Our World: A Child's First Picture Atlas

The National Geographic Society's world-renowned cartographers are proud to present a state-of-the-art world atlas for children ages 3 to 6. This updated edition of the award-winning National Geographic Our World A Child's First Picture Atlas uses a puzzle… more »

National Geographic Atlas of the World

Combining state-of-the-art cartographic technology with dynamic and diverse cultural content, our award-winning atlas was more than a year in the making. It was developed using advanced Geographic Information Systems (GIS), satellite imagery, and shuttle r… more »

Another Amazing HTML5 Music Video

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This HTML5 video from Japanese band Soul River integrates with your Twitter and Facebook accounts and with your webcam to create a truly wild and amazing web musical video.

The video was obviously inspired by The Wilderness Downtown's experimental HTML5 video. Like the Wilderness Downtown video Soul River makes use of numerous browser windows and your geographical location.

Using your browser's geolocation detection capabilities the video displays a Google Map of your location. The Soul River singer is then shown walking across the map. There is a lot more amazing stuff in the full video but really you have to watch it yourself.

To watch the video you will need a browser that supports HTML5. Use Chrome if you have it.

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View the 2010 Hurricane Season in Google Earth

Greg at Geodesic contacted us to let us know about a very cool animation that his company has built which provides a great visualization of the 2010 Hurricane Season. Based on theNOAA tropical cyclone track data, this file does a great job of showing all of the hurricanes in 2010.

The file is rather large (9.35MB), but includes fantastic imagery of the various stages of each storm. For example, here is a great image of Hurricane Danielle as it was heading toward Bermuda:

You can read more about this project on their site. To see it for yourself, you can use this KMZ file or watch the video below: