Top 10 Cool and Useful Digital Maps Blogs
Maps today do a lot more than just show where you are--they also point out destinations, weather, air-travel bargains and more. These blogs guide you through a world that starts with paper maps and moves to how to view and use Google Maps, Google Earth and even your city's Global Information System data. Oh, and they're great for learning more about your travel destinations too.
The 800-pound gorilla of map blogs. Jonathan Crowe discusses every known type of map, whether of earth, the other planets, imaginary kingdoms, you name it. Comments on and collates all the other cartography, Google Earth and GIS blogs out there.
Nearly as authoritative as The Map Room but with more imagery and more of the author's own interpretation of maps. Far from being a musty online repository, Cartophilia will take you through such modern exercises as maps and video of an impossibly hazardous traffic circle in Swindon, England.
Sporadically updated blog focuses on antique-map collecting and centralizes resources for enthusiasts. Includes tutorials on cartographic history for beginners.
Latest news about what Google is adding to Google Earth, how to use Building Maker to create 3D models, what's up with GE for iPhone, and using GE to track bird migration or view a model of Disney World in 3D (especially cool if you use Flight Navigator).
Focuses primarily on Google Earth but also emphasizes other GIS and photography-based applications such as Garmin GPS tools.
Asphalt the shape of Maine, pumpkins with a South America-ish bite taken out of them, Afghan war rugs and a map of the only spot in the world that no nation has claimed--Strange Maps lives up to its billing and manages to be entertaining and informative as well.
Discussions of geography, GIS, Google Maps and related software primarily via podcasts. At last check they were up to number 228.
Covers next-generation mapping technologies, especially augmented reality (AR). One AR app overlays distances to the nearest London Tube stations on the view of your surroundings through your iPhone 3GS's camera.
Google Maps, map mashups, games and a bit of augmented reality. Highly accessible to the non-specialist through features like a Top Posts list that functions as a FAQ for the most popular uses of Google Maps.
New and innovative maps, such as one that breaks China up into nine "nations," another that shows El Niño growing larger over the Pacific, the spread of swine flu and how close every other state is to being like California.
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