Mapping a City’s Smell
Chemical cartography is a fascinating new frontier in mapping. We ran across an interesting article on Discovery News and wanted to share it with all of our readers: Analysis by David Teeghman “Your city smells. Maybe good, maybe bad, but it definitely has a...Organized Crime on the Map
The current issue of Wired Magazine shared this fascinating map of the flow of organized crime around the globe. Click here for a closer look at the map and to read the accompanying article.NCGE 2011 Webinars for APHG Teachers
Now in our 95th year, NCGE continues to both promote and celebrate geographic teaching and learning. Their activities include conducting and gathering research, producing journals and other geography publications, developing curricular resources at the K-12 and...Say It With Buildings
Happy Valentines Day! We wanted to share the website GEO-Greeting, which can send any message you choose written in buildings from satellite images. As you type the letters for your message in, the map will show you the global position of the buildings it is using to...Knots, Lines & Curves: The Way Our Eyes Read Maps
We recently ran across this fascinating study on how our eyes read maps on the blog for EYE Magazine. It compares regular octolinearity to new all-curves map models and how our eyes read and decipher information along the lines of a map. An all-curves map smoothes...SNOWMAGEDDON 2011: How Crowdsourcing, Social Media and Mapping Made the Difference
Area governments are doing their best to help their regions dig out of this snow storm. Call it Snowmageddon, call it the Blizzard of 2011. Whatever you call it, it’s a mess outside. SnomgeddonCleanUp.com (running in NYC and Boston) built websites as a simple...Egypt Events Mapped by Social Media Protests
A big thanks to our friends at ESRI for putting this fascinating map together. Use this as a resource to discuss current events in Egypt with your students and give them a geographic context. This map pulls in social media related to the protests that have occurred in...Super Bowl Fan Map
Cast your vote for who you want to win the Super Bowl on this fun, interactive map from ESRI!Great Maps Available Through the CEC
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation facilitates collaboration and public participation to foster conservation, protection and enhancement of the North American environment for the benefit of present and future generations, in the context of increasing...