geography

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related: google earth flickr: [|earthgoogled], [|maps], [|a new map of the world] slideshare: [|geolocation now] (1,000+ views) editing: [|Geography guide]

Cartography is changing! We are beginning to draw a new map of the world

The value of maps for visitors is sometimes difficult to express to locals who more often than not orientate themselves not by street names but by the buildings that used to be there.

Apps
https://www.waze.com http://maps.me

Headlines
http://metrocosm.com/mercator http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/a-map-to-perfection-using-d3-js-to-make-beautiful-web-maps [|Inside The Crowdsourced Map Project That Is Helping Contain The Ebola Epidemic] [] []

Make a Map [] https://www.freemaptools.com

MapJam http://mapjam.com [|@MapJamInsider]

Argentina http://www.ign.gob.ar https://www.youtube.com/user/IgnArgentina https://twitter.com/ARGENTINAIGN

Mexico http://www.igg.unam.mx/sigg https://twitter.com/IGeografiaUNAM https://www.facebook.com/igeografia.unam

UK []

Recommended Listening
[|A History of the World in Maps] - Throughout history, maps have always been as much about their creators and their worldviews as about reproducing an accurate replica of the world.

[|Venetian Armchair Explorers] - The imagined world of Renaissance Venetian map-makers and ‘armchair travellers’. It’s a world where truth never got in the way of a good story.

[|Maps and tracking - Part One] - Old maps have a certain reassuring permanence about them, not so the new ones - welcome to the age of real-time cartography!

[|Maps - Part Two] - We speak with Michael Jones - Google's Chief Technology Advocate - about why he uses the term 'place browser' instead of 'map'. And we also hear about a digital cartography project involving string and balloons.

[|Why History Matters: Historians Remap the World] - Do we need our history to be global? Work, leisure, war and peace, these are some of the themes that historians are now mapping on to a global past.

[|The west and the map of the world] - Read the emergence of the dominant global alignments we've inherited. We still talk in terms of 'East' and 'West', but the origins of these concepts lie centuries ago, in classical times.

[|Psychogeography: discovering the mental terrain of the city]

Flickr
[|Locals and Tourists]

Blogs
[] http://www.tgjournal.com/tourism-spaces-blog - https://twitter.com/alew https://twitter.com/TourismJournal

Quotes
Conservation geography should be a geographical approach to conservation that cuts across artificial boundaries separating what is natural from what is cultural in the landscape. - Mark Bonta, Conservation Geography in Honduras

I wouldn't start from here. - Classic saying, often used when giving directions.

Can't get there from here. - R.E.M.

Slideshare
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Buzzword Bingo
actionable - atlas - cartography - destination - found - **geography** - geolocation - geotourism - gps - green map - landmark - legend - location - lost - map - mapping - Open Street Map - [|optimistic geography] - orientation - place - recalculating - relief map - scale - Ushahidi

inmappancy - insufficient geographical knowledge source: http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosystem/uploads/2010/10/true-size-of-africa.jpg

Editing
[|Geography guide] [|Google Earth Tips] [|Locator maps] [|Maps and legends notebook]

Google+
https://crowdmap.com/post/589/we-held-a-crowdmap-public-beta-session-on-g-with-a

More examples

Sitio Turístico de Quito http://www.quito.com.ec/maps

Envivo Andalucia http://envivo.andalucia.org - includes arboledas singulares

Brazil: Geonoticias http://twitter.com/#!/geojournalism http://www.oeco.com.br/multimidia/geonoticias

Black Sheep Inn [|http://www.flickr.com/photos/planeta/2557086772] [|http://www.flickr.com/photos/planeta/36327764]

Australia
[|Atlas of Living Australia]

Oaxaca Map
[|http://www.flickr.com/photos/planeta/1969114545] http://oaxaca.wikispaces.com/things2do

Open Street Map
[] is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. [|@openstreetmap]

Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
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[|on Google maps]
 * Tristan de Cunha, South Atlantic**


 * Teotitlan, Oaxaca**

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FYI

tate of the Map 200 //the international conference of the OpenStreetMap community//

saturday, 12 july 2008 The Megagalactic Super Visible Street Sign Company (Robert Barr) So I Have All This Data (Steve Chilton) The State of Ireland (Gareth Eason & Christian van den Bosch) Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API (John McKerrell) The State of Italy (Simone Cortesi) Commercial Viability of OpenStreetMap (Ed Freyfogle) OpenStreetMap Vs The World (Dair Grant) All Present and Correct (Peter Miller) The History and Future of Mapmaking (Bojan Sobocan) Printed Wikitravel Guidebooks and OpenStreetMap (Jani Patokallio) OpenRouteService.org (Sebastian Schmidt) The State of France (Renaud Martinet)
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[|http://gpsdrawing.com] [|http://www.maptube.org]

Geography
This is the only place in the world where two national capital cities are situated on opposite banks of a river, within sight of each other. [|Hint]

Map projections
All maps have a map projection which tries to distort the reality as little as possible. Because it impossible to show the round earth on a flat surface some distortion is inevitable, so different projections are used for large or small areas to minimize the influence and research on projections [|continues]

Making Maps
Maps should have five basic elements: scale, legend, title, date, orientation

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/MapsAreAmazing

Wikipedia
[|Compass] [|Geography] [|List of countries and outlying territories by total area] [|Gerardus_Mercator]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection

Elsewhere on the Web
[|Geotourism Challenge - Ashoka] [|Immigration Geopolitics Beyond the Mexico/US Border - Antipode] (PDF) [|Travel Geography Blogspot] [|International Year of Planet Earth 2007-2009] [|The New Meaning of Mapping - video of Michael Jones] [|Grassroots Mapping Project] [|Places Actually Discovered by Europeans, Mapped] [|History of Cartography]

Maps
[|Green Map San Miguel] [|Green Maps] [|Green Routes] (USA) [|Guia Roji] [|Supertopo] [|EROS Data Center] [|EarthBrowser] [|Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection] [|Twittervision] [|Xerox Map Viewer] http://www.worldmapper.org

Trails http://fwtrails.org/maps

Geocoding
A geocoded photograph is a photograph which is associated with a geographical location. A geocoded image can be associated to geographical coordinates such as latitude and longitude or a physical address.

[|Geocoded photo - Wikipedia]

Geotagging
[|Machu Picchu - Flickr Geotag Map] [|Ecotourism Estonia - Flagr]

YAHOO
[|TagMaps] [|Yahoo Maps] [|Yahoo Driving Directions]

Elsewhere on the Web
http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq [|Hotel Eco Paraiso] (Mexico) [|London Map Downloads - BBC] [|Map of Namibia] [|Map - DQAE] [|Walkit] (London) [|Melbourne] [|Guia Roji] (Mexico) [|Rrove] [|South Africa Hiking Trails] [|Supertopo] [|Crossing the Mapping Chasm - White African] [|Twittervision] [|Heritage Trails - Heritage Council of Western Australia] [|Kangaroo Island O.K. Map] (PDF)

Flickr
[|Maps] [|Geotagged Maps] [|Google Earth, Maps and Mash-ups]

American Association of Geographers http://www.aag.org http://www.aag.org/cs/calendar_of_events https://www.facebook.com/pages/Association-of-American-Geographers/559223137562980?fref=ts