Tag: Maps
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Secret Google Maps gesture is awesome for one-handed navigation
A great gesture that allows you to zoom into a map with one hand on your smart phone.
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The Great Lakes vacationing in... Europe
Sometimes the best way to get an idea of the scale of something is to change the context.
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Google Street View Lets You See the Sights of Midway Atoll
The remote atoll which is home to endangered species and historic landmarks can now be explored from your computer.
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Underwater Robot Maps Antarctic Ice in 3D
The robot was part of a bigger mapping project that reveals the overall volume of ice in Antarctica, not just the ice cover.
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Egg Maps and Green Routes Create Vegetable Tourism in the Incredible Edible Town Todmorden
Todmorden is a town that embraced the local food movement by growing their own fruit and veg anywhere in public spaces. They also have an Egg Map and a Green Route for the Vegetable Tourists!
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How the Drought Affected Earth’s Mass and Gravitational Pull
The drought was so bad it made our region a little lighter.
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Eye On Earth Connects the Dots So People Can See Environmental Issues
A heat wave vulnerability map goes viral, boosting interactive technology that helps make important environmental data accessible.
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Beautiful Time-Scale Transit Maps by Peter Dunn
I know there are lots of transit map fans out there. It's a modern art-form for sure! Take a look at these original time-scaled maps.
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Google Earth Helping Amazon Tribe to Preserve Their Forest and Their Culture
Google's first cultural map arms the Surui tribe with technological tools to fight illegal logging and document and protect their culture.
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Google Bringing Street View to Hiking Trails
Google's Trekker will let its Street View team capture some of the world's greatest sights by foot.
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Map of Life Website Will Catalog and Track Every Plant and Animal Species
This new project will show the current known location of every plant and animal species but will also track changes to populations due to things like climate change.
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Google Earth Using Kites and Balloons for Aerial Mapping
Forget high-tech satellites! Google Earth is adding imagery taken by low-tech kites and balloons. And it looks great!
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Moscow Artist Sparks Local DIY Bike Map Movement
As the government moves to make Russia's traffic-clogged capital more bike-friendly, citizen cyclists are already creating and distributing their own bike maps to help other two-wheeled travelers find their way through the chaos.
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Global Population Density at a Glance (Infographic)
This map does a really good job of simply conveying worldwide population density.
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Cool New Online Atlas Spotzi Helps You Discover the World
From climate science to agriculture, from conservation to military moves and diseases, this map tells you everything.
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Sobering Map Pinpoints Every Vehicle-Related Death in the US
Mapping site ITO World recently compiled data of virtually every fatality that occurred on roads in the United States between 2001 and 2009 into one sobering map.
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Luminous Maps Show Web of Human Impact on Planet (Video)
These "impressionist" maps paint a bigger picture of how anthropogenic forces on our planet are interconnected.
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NASA and Japan Create Spectacular Map of Earth (Video)
The most complete topographical map is free, and simply gorgeous to see.
