tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124858402011-08-16T23:02:11.967-04:00A weblog for members of the Canadian Cartographic Association and other individuals interested in all things cartographicCCAerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12050835035260616601noreply@blogger.comBlogger6601100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12485840.post-1162170455791890512006-10-29T20:00:00.000-05:002006-10-29T20:07:35.846-05:00

Because new time commitments and potential conflict of interest issues prevent me from maintaining this blog to the full extent that I would like, I regretfully must cease writing posts. Loyal subscribers and regular visitors will have noted a decline in the quality and the quantity of posts since I began my new job about 1 month ago. Any member of the Canadian Cartographic Association that is

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An update to the weekly movements. Another 1,200 kilometres, mostly taken up in commuting to and from work.I earned that, no matter how hard I tried, I inevitably ended up taking many of the same roads, especially around home. See the map below (brighter lines indicate a higher frequency of travel along that route):

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Geogratis, a staple of small site of small scale free gospatial Canadian data, has recently had a facelift. The data layers are now searchable by product and keyword or can be browsed via alphabetical list. All of this make its easier to search its data holdings. Also as part of the makeover is the addition of some new data - maps from the Glacier Atlas, for instance. However, there doesn’t seem

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Strange Maps is a blog that focuses on odd maps, many that look on the world with redrawn boundaries or strange ideas. Some have been posted about in this blog already (the redrawn map of the Middle East, for instance); others I haven’t seen before, including Imperial Texas, Greater Albania or what Europe might have looked like (in French eyes) if the Germans had won the war. Also included is on

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Ron Blakely’s amazing paleogeographic maps, mentioned in a previous post, have migrated, not surprisingly, to Google Earth. With GE latest version supporting animation, it only makes sense to use it as a vehicle to display changes in the earth’s surface. GE community member Valery Hronusov has ported the images into a downloadable GE file. This does much to make the ladforms in paleogeography

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The CCA President’s Prize recognizes excellence in student map design and production and is open to all post-secondary students who have completed and produced a cartographic project in the preceding school year. The 2007 President’s Prize Competition will consist of two prizes of $100, one for entries from college-level or CEGEP students, and one for entries from university-level undergraduate

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L’ACC a le plaisir d’annoncer du Prix Carto-Québec. Ce concours annuel, ouvert aux étudiants postsecondaire à travers le Canada, sera décerné pour le meilleur produit cartographique créé en français. Ce prix a été établi grâce à un don de l’ancienne Association Carto-Québec pour promouvoir et reconnaître l’excellence dans la conception des cartes. Le Prix Carto-Québec comprendra deux prix de

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The USGS, of course, has its own earthquake map - a map that tracks the latest earthquakes, their locations and magnitude, but the map has limited zoomability. Ask.com has a zoomable map of the world on which earthquake activity is displayed. Ask.com’s map is limited when compared to other maps provided by interactive mapping sites but does have a physical feature view, something the others don’t

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DeGraeve.com has an interesting and useful little tool - not a cartographic tool for one that cartographers might find useful when completing a map layout. The Color Palette Generator takes any photo on the web and provides two palettes - one dull, one vibrant - of Pantone colors that match the colors in the image provided.By way of Cartotalk.

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Not much time to blog, in part because of a 80 minute commute on either end of my work day and a week of buying and selling real estate. Another 900 kilometres of travel (less than the first week but still far too much) and an updated map that looks like this:Note the scale of the map has changed compared to last week’s entry. (See below - for some reason links to individual posts do not seem to

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Natural Resources Canada has reversed its earlier decision to suspend the printing of paper maps. According to GISuser and the CBC, Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn had received a flood of letters protesting the decision to suspend the printing of the popular National Topographic Series maps.Also check out the Map Room’s coverage.

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Tracking one’s movements using a GPS and mapping that for all the world to see is nothing new so this post really adds nothing to what has already been done. Those of you who have been following the blog will know that I have recent had a change in jobs, resulting in less time and energy for me to maintain this blog, among other things. The daily commute is about 110 kilometres each way. The map

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Enjoy England, the department tasked with promoting England as a tourist destination, has created a site called StorybookEngland that plots the locations of children’s books and stories on a map of England. When a story or book on the lsit is clicked on, the locations upon which the story is based (however loosely) appear on the map. Clicking on a location leads to a more detailed more where a

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Map Rectifier is a free online map geo-referencing tool produced by MetaCarta Labs. It is very simple to use. Users upload a map to be georeferenced, then add control points to the original map and a reference map. Georeferenced images can then be downloaded in tif format for use in other applications. MetaCarta Labs “offers experimental tools that are not yet commercially supported, so they may

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The Center for International Earth Science Information Network has released an atlas entitled Where the Poor Are: An Atlas of Poverty. The atlas, available as a pdf download, covers a number of aspects of poverty including infnat mortality, hunger, poverty gaps and inequality and looks at these factors on both a global, regional and national scale, the latter being broken down by subnational

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Now you can complete that National Geographic map collection that is missing the one elusive map. National Geographic has partnered with Maps.com, the self-proclaimed world’s largest map store (previously mentioned in this blog), to make its catalog of maps available for purchase. Customers can browse through the extensive National Geographic map collection, select one and have it printed and/or

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As reported earlier in this blog, Natural Resources Canada is discontinuing the printing of its topographic map series. This is making many people unhappy. A website has been set up called Maps for Canadians that directs those who are upset enough about the situation to a number of recommended actions, including writing your Member of Parliament. On the bright side, those who have access to a

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(By way of the Society of Cartographers email list)Announcing a new British Cartographic Society eventTHE MAP DESIGNERSNovember 17th, 2006 Glasgow.The world of Cartography is changing beyond all recognition. It is no longer dominated by a few specialists in major companies or national organisations. The explosion of non-cartographic map makers has brought a vibrancy and freshness to the subject,

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Information Visualization is an irregularly published e-zine that discusses information visualization topics. Though very few of its issues discuss mapping, many of its subjects would be of interest to cartographers. The latest issue, for instance, discusses colour and colour usage. The e-zine’s contributors are many but those most well-known to cartographers include Edward Tufte and Alan

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The MercuryNews has a short story about Mapquest dropping its printed map publishing business to focus solely on its digital presence. “MapQuest published its first road map for free distribution at gas stations in 1967 when it launched as a division of R.R. Donnelley & Sons in Chicago. The company produces more than 1.5 billion pages of printed maps every year.”

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Mark Harrower of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has worked with Cindy Brewer on the popular ColorBrewer tool. He is currently working on another cartographic tool called MapShaper that will simplify shapefiles according to one of 3 algorithms. The Flash tool allows the user to upload a shapefile, set the simplification parameters, and view and compare the results with the original file. The

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Wondering what’s playing on the radio in your neighbourhood? Or on the other side of the country? Yes.com has put together a simple real-time Flash map of 150 radio stations that shows what songs each station is playing. (Currently only U. S. stations)By way of information aesthetics

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Two new cartography /geospatial sites now grace the Internet: Cartography Online and Free GIS Data GeoBlog.Cartography Online intends to provide news, forums and links to the cartography community. The offerings are currently sparse (since it is new) and it seems to provide some competition for existing sites (e.g. CartoTalk in particular and other news-focused geo-spatial sites). No

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NYCSubway.org has a number of maps of New York City bus lines and subway lines. These maps include scans of route maps dating back to 1888 and come in various sizes, mostly in jpeg format. Also included are maps of track locations that would probably be more of interest to the railroad aficionado.See also previous entry Subway Map by Committee.By way of Plep

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The Boston Public Library’s Norman B. Leventhal Map Center has a collection of over 200,000 maps and 5,000 atlas, some of which are available online at a splashy new site. There is much to explore here, including a couple of beautifully put together online tours (Faces and Places and Journeys of the Imagination - blogged about here earlier), a map of the month ( this month it is a map of Boston

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The CCAblog is now approaching 1 1/2 years of age and regular attracts more than 500 people a day on weekdays. There are many regular readers that provide positive feedback, suggest links and items of interest. To date, it has been pretty much a solo effort, driven by a personal love of maps and an interest in new technologies and developments in the field.Because of an upcoming change in

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The Broer Map Library is a cooperative endeavour that seeks to provide libraries and other organizations with online access to a large map collection. Founded in 2002 and housed in Ellington, Connecticut, the map collection has grown through donations of unused maps to its current size of 40,000. The collection has a wide variety of street maps, roads maps, historical and military maps from the

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This week seems to be the week for users of free geographic viewing software. Earlier this week Live Local released an upgrade that allows users to create and save their own data online (not at all as GIS friendly items but only as “dumb” graphics) and georeference existing raster maps (using MSR MapCruncher).Yesterday Google released a version 4 (beta) of its popular Google Earth software. The

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Microsoft’s Live Local has recently been upgraded (already reported on by the Map Room and others) , making it easier to draw one’s own points, lines and areas on the supplied base map. The new tools, discussed at length in the Windows Live Local blog, make it easy to add, save and share user drawn features, including photos, links and comments. Now, if only you could add in already existing

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In the map creation process, a sizable amount of time can be devoted to making the right symbols. It is always worthwihle, then, to be able to draw on the work of others when possible. The U. S. National Park Service has a number of symbols and patterns available in Adobe Illustrator and PDF formats.See also previous posting on Pictograms.By way of The Map Room

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Breathing Earth is a Flash map of the world that displays the carbon dioxide emission levels, birth and death rates of each country in “real-time.” Mousing over a country brings up population, emission levels and birth and death rates for that country. An effective and interesting map, complete with sound effects.By way of information aesthetics

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By now, the latest updates to Google Maps is old news, already covered by the likes of Google Maps Mania and Google Earth Blog. There have been siginificant updates to the collection of high resolution images covering parts of the United States, Japan, Norway and New Zealand.Perhaps equally interesting is being able to compare between various Google Maps releases. Mike Williams has set up a

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The UK’s Ordnance Survey has had a program in place for a few years in which they provide 11 year olds with a free map. For the past five years, the OS has handed out, on request by teachers, a 1:25,000 Explorer Map to students for their own keeping. The program has had a desired effect on map reading skills and geography knowledge, according to a number of studies. “Altogether, 17 separate

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The European Spatial Planning Observation Network engages in “applied research and studies on territorial development and spatial planning (as) seen from a European perspective in support of policy development.” Which means that, in an attempt to provide the European Union and its members states with the information they need to make the proper policy decisions, EPSON produces a number of

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At the end of the thirteenth century, King Edward I of England sought to urbanize and control the Welsh by establishing a number of fortified towns. No contemporary maps of these towns exist so Keith Lilley, Chris Lloyd and Steve Trick of the Queen’s University Belfast put together a set of maps of thirteen towns that depict them as they were when they were first establsihed. “For each of the

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The Globe and Mail has a short story on the efforts to map a portion of the Atlantic Ocean floor off the coast of New York, specifically, what is called the Husdon Canyon. Using a multi-beamed sonar system, staff with the USGS mapped a 160 kilometre by 100 kilometre portion of the seabed at a scale of 1:300,000. Two hefty pdfs of the maps (sheet 1 is 12 MB; sheet 2 is 30 MB) are available from

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New York City has mapped its subways in its own way, not following Beck’s London Underground map that has become the unofficial style standard for subway maps the world over. Instead of a simplified schematics with subway lines running at specified angles, the Metro Transit Authority subway map shows lines in their approximate geographic location. John Tauranac headed a committee in 1979 that

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In the Middle East, any changes to national boundaries on the map is sure to meet up with unhappiness and anger from someone. Even not changing the map is sure to make someone unhappy (think of those who do not officially recognioze Israel, for instance). The June issue of Armed Forces Journal suggests redrawing the map of the Middle East in order to promote stability and peace in the area since,

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Online mapping gets easier every day. EditGrid is an online spreadsheet application that allows users to share and edit the same spreadsheet. It also has an add-on feature that allows the spreadsheet to be mapped to Google Map or Google Earth, provided that location data is available. The add-on has the ability to map addresses but it didn’t seem to work for the addresses I tried. Below is a

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Eduard Imhof, a Swiss cartographer of the 20th century, was well known for his skills in mountain cartography. Though some of his books appear to be out of print, much of his work is still available on the Internet. The Alpine Mapping Guild, one of Imhof’s successors in the field of mountain cartography, has posted a number of chapters and images of his work online, including 6 chapters of his

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The Independent has a short news story on the Royal Geographical Society’s annual conference, focusing on the technological changes occuring in the mapping industry. Interestingly, according to the article, only 9% of the Ordnance Survey’s business stems from the sale of paper maps - of which 5.1 million were printed last year.

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ESRI’s products are primarily known as GIS tools and for cartographers it has, at times throughout its development, required some real effort to produce high quality cartographic products similar to what was produced before the advent of GIS. ESRI and other software vendors of GIS have made it relatively easy for anyone to produce maps. Even trained cartographers have the choice of producing an

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A quiz (and it would be helpful to know the area on this one): which of the following street maps, generated from one of the many online mapping services, is accurate? (Focus on the intersection of streets near the centre of each map.) Google Maps perhaps?Or Yahoo! Maps which looks very similar in content and appearance?Or MSN Maps / Live Local, also similar in appearance and content?Or perhaps

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Jared Benedict has started an initiative to make U.S. DRGs (digital raster graphics) freely available on the Internet. These 1:24,000 topographic maps are already public domain but must be purchased through a vendor. Finding this situation to be ridiculous Jared began a campaign to raise money to purchase and make them all freely available through the Internet Archive. I’m not sure how long the

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This year has been relatively quiet on the tropical storm front in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico areas. This has not been the case in other areas of the world. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (site currently down) has produced a few maps of tropical storms in the Pacific and Indian Ocean areas, one showing trackis of major storms in the past 5o years

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Map the Universe points to a CBS news clip on the World of Maps, focusing on the New York Public Library’s Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division and the world of map collecting. The video is about 7 minutes long and worth a view.

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A 15 year old high school student from Piedmont, California took on the task of producing a map of his town as part of his school work. The map seems to be moderately successfully, selling at $4 a piece. What is interesting are some of the comments made in the ContraCostaTimes news story. “Making maps was not the teen’s first choice for a new internship, but ‘it didn't sound too horrible,’ he

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Bryce, a software package that allows you to create 3-D landscapes and animations, is making version 5.0 of its popular software available for free download until September 6th. The latest version of Bryce is 5.5; apparently 6.0 is due out shortly so you won’t be getting the latest and greatest. Still, if you’ve ever wanted to try it out, now’s your chance. Bryce 5 runs on both PCs and Mac (but

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22nd International Conference on the History of CartographyBerne, Switzerland8-13 July 2007The Conference is the major international scholarly conference dedicated to advancing knowledge of the history of cartography, of maps and mapmaking, broadly defined. The conference promotes global cooperation and collaboration among scholars (from any academic discipline), curators, collectors, dealers and

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Recently I was sent a link to a site that sold canned maps - Illustrator files of maps of states ($3.95 US for an outline of Illinios, for instance). This puts a blogger in an awkward position: posting a notice about such a site is like a free advertisement. I am reluctant to do so unless the site is of obvious interest or benefit to the readership (namely, cartographers and other interested

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Terra Nostra 1550 – 1950: The Stories Behind Canada’s MapsJeffrey S. MurrayMcGill – Queen’s University Press / SeptentrionISBN 0-660-19496-123.5 cm x 31 cm192 pp, hard cover$46.95 CDNJeffrey Murray spends his days working for Library and Archives Canada, tending its collection of 1.7 million old maps, what he considers to be the best job in the world. That’s entirely understandable, if the maps

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My Polish is non-existent but from what I can see it looks like the City of Warsaw has a collection of orthoimages taken in 1945 that they’ve put up on their web mapping site. The site requires the AutoDesk MapGuide plugin and shows the 1945 images and images from 2005. 1945, of course, marked the end of the Second World War and the effects of that war are clearly evident in the images. The

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Why wait for the next U. S. election to map results when you can do so now? The New York Times has an interactive map in which you can create and save scenarios and decide who is going to win each race this coming fall. There is alot of to explore on this map - users can select New York Times predictions, highlight close races and review Senate races from six years ago. The map is viewable by

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Penn State Online GIS Education and the Dutton e-Education Institute have put together a map that the user can reproject to 10 different projections. It is a site that would primarily be of interest to those who don’t have access to a GIS. Projections include Plate Carree (or geographic), Mercator, Transverse Mercator, Cylindrical Equal Area, Robinson, Lambert conformal Conic, Albers Equal Area

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William Reese, a rare book and art dealer, has pledged$100,000 to Yale University to digitize its collection of 220,000 maps, including 15,000 maps of North America from before 1850. Yale has agreed to match the donation which it says will not only bring its collection of maps in to the modern age but will also provide a record of its collection, some of which suffered the effects of E. Forbes

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Yahoo! Maps has added more high resolution imagery to its mapping site. The additions don’t seem to follow any logic, being rather spotty. Included are places like Abidjan, Edmonton, Rome, Nairobi and Santorini (where you can almost see the dogs roaming the streets). In some cases, imagery is better than what is available through Google Maps. This follows up on previous imagery updates more than

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The North American Cartographic Information Society’s annual conference will be held this year in Madison, Wisconsin on October 18 - 21. The preliminary program is available online as a pdf and includes presentations and discussions on cartographic design, use of type, building mashups, and symbology. Also included in the program is the annual practical cartography day and the NACIS map-off. This

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When using the available web mapping sites for directions, what is provided is usually the quickest or shortest route from point A to point B. This, of course, comes as no surprise and is what users expect. The results assume that the user will be travelling by car - which isn’t always the case. byCycle looks to find the best or safest route for cyclists, taking into consideration such things as

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I will be away on holidays until August 14th, 2006. I would be GPSing my travels but, unfortunately, my Magellan Meridian Platinum decided to take a break from working as well. Where does one get a GPS repaired? Or are they just another disposable consumer item?

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The London Underground map is perhaps the most recognizable map of modern times. A History of London Tube Maps has an extensive collection of London Underground maps since 1889 to the present, including recent updates. It is easy to understand why Beck’s map was so successful when viewed in the contect of its predecessors. Maps are in jpeg format at a resolution that is large enough to read.By

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When I first blogged about ArcWeb Explorer (AWX) back in May, the application/tool was still in beta and had a number of unresolved issues that limited its functionality. Now, these problems appear cleared up, making AWX and interesting and useful tool.AWX has all the usual features of a web mapping site: a search for addresses and directions and an interchangeable map / satellite image.

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Nunaliit is a framework designed to make it easy to bring stories and data together, using maps as a connecting focus. From the Nunalit website: “The Nunaliit framework aims to make it easy for anyone to build a cybercartographic atlas - telling stories and exploring the relationships between space, time, knowledge, and our senses. Initial development has focused on an XML schema for organizing

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Tavi Shaffer-Green, a 2 1/2 year boy from Kansas, can draw maps and name countries better than most (take the little quiz in the sidebar to see if you can match his brains). Writes the Lawrence Journal-World: “Tavi is still in diapers and hasn’t yet started preschool, but he can identify all the countries in the world — with the exception of maybe a Pacific island or two — and can draw many of

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A draft version of ESRI’s desktop help files for ArcGIS 9.2 is available online. For those not attending the annual user conference next week, this is a good way to familiarize oneself with with the new features. With regards to cartography, 9.2 offers some very impressive animation and representation tools. Sadly for me in my current position it might be awhile before I get my hands on it; my

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Those interested in maps of Scotland would find it worthwhile to visit the National Library of Scotland’s web page on maps. The site includes pdfs of all 9 issues of its publication Cairt, an 8 page newsletter that covers all things related to Scottish maps. The latest issue includes a discussion on Blaeu’s map of Scotland as compared to a similar one by Philip Lea. Also included on the site are

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Spiegel Online has an article about the impact of Google Earth on scientific studies. The article is interesting if only for some of the misconceptions of GIS that it exhibits. For instance, “Computers have long been capable of processing geographic data. There are powerful, special programs that can create all kinds of colorful maps. And unlike Google Earth, which can only be used to display

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Much of the effort to develop add-ons for mapping sites has focused on Google Maps. GoogleMapsMania is, in fact, dedicated to this sort of thing. So it is refreshing to see tool development for mapping sites others than Google Maps. Trip Track Map is a Yahoo! Maps based tool that allows users to paste in GPS track locations (formatted for Garmin receivers) and plot them on the map. It also

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A coouple of days ago I posted an entry on the (Un)Happy Planet Map, a world map that displays how happy the people / planet as measured by longevity, life expectancy and ecological footprint, with a heavy emphasis on the later. The University of Leicester’s Adrian White has produced what he calls “the first map to illustrate international differences in happiness.” White looks only at people’s

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. . . before you buy because you might already own what is being auctioned off. This was the case with Library and Archives Canada with regards to Forlani’s map of 1562 that makes mention of Canada for the first time (see previous entry from May of this year). The Globe and Mail reports that Library and Archives Canada, currently working on getting funding for a new information management system,

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The Guardian has an article on how the UK is threatening to kill INSPIRE, the European initiative to make government data more accessible across borders. The INfrastructure for SPatial Information in Europe’s principles include:Data should be collected once and maintained at the level where this can be done most effectivelyIt should be possible to combine seamlessly spatial data from different

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The (Un)Happy Planet Index has a map that shows how “happy” various countries are, not just in terms of human life but also in terms of how each treats the planet. The index is based on 3 statistics: life expectancy is multiplied by life satisfaction and the result is divided by the ecological footprint for that country. The results might be a bit surprising.A question arises as to whether this

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Al Mashriq - the Levant has a number of maps of Lebanon, some relating to the current conflict. Part of the collection is a set of 1:200,000 topographic maps of the country, both in Arabic and in English. Images are viewable on screen but cannot be saved, unfortunately. Other maps in the collection include a pdf map of the Israeli air strikes, 1:500,000 maps of Beriut from the 1960s, and a map

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The New York Times has two delicious graphic maps that display the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. The first displays the many different conflicts across the area; the second focuses on the conflict between the United States and Iran. Very interesting maps.By way of information aesthetics who has a number of links to other graphics relating to the Middle East.

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For those cartographers who have been delinquent in their studies or merely need a very cartographic-focused refresher on what it is they do, the UK’s Society of Cartographers is holding its annual summer school September 4 to 7 at Keele University in Staffordhsire. Topics include green mapping, mapping for tourism and leisure and historical mapping. A full programme is available in pdf format.

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A couple of more maps that are covering the events in the Middle East:The New York Times has a map of Israel and Lebanon showing attacks on both sides. It is a Flash map and users can select a date and see what happened on that day. Very simple and straightforward and one of the best I’ve seen on the conflict. The base map can be switched from a topographic view ot a population density view. Also

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Henry Bottomley has put together a Java applet that can dispaly that world in 14 different projections. Users can select a projection and specifiy its parameters and project not only a basic map of the world but also an image of the world at night, a topographic image of the world, the moon, Jupiter and Mars. The basic map of the world seems to be most effective in displaying the distortions that

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The University of British Columbia Library has a collection of 285 Japanese maps available for viewing online. The maps are from the Tokugawa Era, 1600 to 1867, and focuses on “privately published and travel related maps and guides” from that period. The collection is mostly from the George H. Beans collection, acquired by the UBC Library in 1965 and since added to. Maps are available in jpeg

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Maps of the current violence in the Middle East between Israel and Hezbollah are appearing everywhere. The usual news sources have their set of graphics and maps that outline the events in different ways. The Guardian has an animated Flash map which steps through the various incidents that has led up to the current state of affairs, including a day by day summary that is current to the 20th. The

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The PRISM Group has created a series of grids showing temperature and precipitation datasets for the continental United States. Datasets include average maximum and minimun temperatures, precipitation, and average dewpoint. The collection - available both in image and grid format - provides 12 monthly averages for the period 1971 to 2000 but also provides individual monthly averages for 2000 to

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency from the U.S. has released a prototype global shoreline data set that covers the entire globe. The vector shoreline data has been derived from orthorectified Landsat imagery from 2000. The white paper (Word document) accompanying the dataset suggests that the data has a 50 metre accuracy and contains gaps where there was cloud or ice cover in the

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The appearance of the Canadian Cardiovascular Atlas reminds me that there are always more things to map. The Atlas, produced by the Canadian Caridovascular Outcomes Research Team is a collection of academic papers accompanied by maps that focus on cardiovascular health and outcomes. The maps follow a standard format and employ the same colours for each classification scheme. Data sources for the

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Those cartographers who produce maps strictly within Adobe Illustrator will be happy to know that Avenza has released its latest version of the MAPublisher add-on. As well as including all of the features of previous versions of MAPublisher, the latest version also boasts enhanced label placement, improved grid, graticule and scale bar creation and numerous other features. Version 7 is

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(Apologies, again, for the lack of postings. A home power outage since Monday night will do that . . . .)If you are in Toronto and are looking for a free cab ride, there’s a couple of things you can do:Be sure to get Mohammad Saaed Collins as your cab driver.Be sure to anwer his first geography question correctly.Apparently Collins is known locally as Mr. Geography and will give a free ride to

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No postings for the past four days or so because of a quick jaunt up to the French River. Google Maps has, fortunately, some high resolution imagery for the area. As a result you can almost see the places we camped.It'll be a few days until I get caught up on items.

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The ESRI blog, Geography Matters, points out Chicago Market Facts, a web page put together by Chicago Business. The site hosts an interactive map of the city that displays layers of all the standard census statistics, including income, population, and employment as well as a couple of unusual one (MP3 player demand). The map is zoomable, pannable and queryable.More interesting, however, all the

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For those of you who grew up reading Jules Verne novels, you might want to check out Garmt de Vries’ Jules Verne Collection. As well as having bibliographries, images and quizzes on Jules Verne, de Vries has also included scans of the original maps that accompanied the Verne books. As well, there is a collection of what he calls “unofficial” maps, done in the same style. All scans come in a small

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The BBC has a short story about a plan to unveil a plaque in Southwark, a neighbourhood of London, in honour of Phyllis Pearsall who walked 3,000 miles in an effort to map the streets of London in the mid 1930s. Pearsall went on to found the A to Z Map Company, a producer of popular street maps in the U. K. From the Southwark Council website:“(Phyllis Pearsall) spent the first few years of her

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A while ago Spatial-Literacy.org came out with a mapping tool that allowed users to search for the prevalance of people with a particular surname in the U. K. Other, similar services are available for a number of other countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Poland, France, Belgium and the United States. Each country is broken down differently with areas of differing size

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MSN has an anaimated map showing the growth of obesity in the U. S. over the past 20 years. Coourful, if nothing else, the map cycles through the years from 1986 to 2004. It’s a bit misleading at first since many states don’t have any statistics, making them appear white (or thinner than the are). Each state is clickable for more information.By way of Boing Boing.

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According the BBC, Ordnance Survey staff are walking out for 12 hours today in protest of pay rates. Read the very short story here. Can we expect to see something from Ed Parsons on the issue? Probably not. Let’s see if this gets resolved before a full blown strike.By way of Map GIS News Blog for UK, Euorpe and World

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The American Cancer Society has published two atlases, The Cancer Atlas and The Tobacco Atlas. Both are available for sale and online in pdf format. The pdfs are, however, mostly broken out by page so that if you wanted to view the entire atlas you would have to download numerous pdfs.The Cancer Atlas is broken into a number of sections, including risk factors, cancer economics and taking action.

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A couple of posts ago I mentioned that digital elevation data was freely available from Geobase for most of the country at 1:50,000 and for all of the country at 1:250,000. Here is some related information on the data collection happening for the Far North.Natural Resources Canada would ideally like to have complete 1:50,000 coverage for the entire country but the cost of collecting and producing

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Layla Curtis, an artist, has created some new maps by putting together a collage of old ones. The result are maps that, at first glance, are familiar but on closer inspection are odd and unusual. She has a collection of such collages on her website, most of which are not at a high enough resolution to read, unfortunately. The page runs in Flash so click on Work > Collages to get to the maps.Layla

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I have no idea how long this has been there but Geobase has a somewhat complete set of digital elevation files for the country at scales of 1:50,000 and 1:250,000. The files are split into east and west portions for each tile and are in USGS DEM format. The 1:250,000 set is complete for the entire country (all 9,976,140 square kilometres of it) while the 1:50,000 set covers about 2/3 of it and

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The Institute for Analytic Journalism has a link to another map showing the locations of the hometown of those Americans who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. This has been done before (see the posting on Iraq War Fatalities Map and a Google Maps mashup showing service personnel's hometowns - which doesn’t seem to be working right now). The Palm Beach Post has created an interactive map showing the

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The London Air Quality Network has an interactive map that displays the prevalence of various air pollutants. The map is pannable and zoomable (using the overview map) and clicking on triangular portions of the map will produce a 3 dimensional view of the area with the selected pollutant draped over the landscape, giving a flooded look to the scene. A timeline bar at the bottom of the map extends

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Caught Mapping is a 9 minute black and white documentary (?) on the mapping process in 1940 America. Strangely, it all seems vaguely familiar: substitute the old car and the “special intrusments” with an SUV equipped with a laptop and a GPS receiver and voila! You have the road warriors of today out collecting and updating road data (see Collecting Street Map Data, NavTeq, TeleAtlas Road Data

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Greg Brail has produced two interactive subway maps using Google Maps. These are not just pan and zoom maps but maps where the user can select an origin, a destination and a time and a route will be mapped out, along with the estimated time of travel. Currently maps exist for New York and London.By way of Maps and GIS News Blog for UK, Europe and World

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Globe 4D is a unique globe that combines physical and digital technologies to produce a physically manipulatable globe that can display any part of the earth over time. It is a sphere that can be rotated in any direction by hand onto which images are projected. As well, by moving a ring that circles the globe, users can control the time line being displayed. It is a model that seems ideally

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With the World Cup now narrowed down to 8 competitors and drawing closer to its grand finale, there’s still time to take a look at another World Cup related map. This one is produced by the BBC and is interactive and very much focused on England (of course). The map, powered by Map24, can be panned and zoomed and features shown on the map can identified. The host of icons on the map are not the

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