The system calculates the distance from a city to another one, according to faster path, or lower cost. http://orbis.stanford.edu/ Go to “Mapping ORBIS”, It draws the path and create many different maps and graphs...
A website showing the proximities between sciences, between fields, maps of ontologies: http://www.science-metrix.com/OntologyExplorer/#app=cde1&8f8c-selectedIndex=2 http://www.science-metrix.com/OntologyExplorer/#app=cde1&8f8c-selectedIndex=1
Everything is mappable. The letters written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau are classified by place and time. So you can enter into the Space-time of the author. http://www.rousseauonline.ch/maps/maps.php
The magazine Science underline the huge advance made in network analysis. Networks interact, create cascading effects…… read more in Science
I don’t know what we can learn from the physical dissection of cities: maybe some fractal analysis could work? see the website Berlin: New York City: and other cities in the website (made by...
The density of twitter users shows the location of people in London during the Olympic games…. impressive…… See the website: http://urbantick.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/virtual-landscape-and-peak-for-london.html London during Olympic games: Other cities:
Looking back through the decades, these snapshots from space — created exclusively for CNN by NASA’s Landsat department in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey — reveal the impact of the vast population shift...
a terrific tool to give to students, children, citizens of the world…. http://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/interactive_maps/ See the instructions: publi_pdf2_pesa485
To make the maps more “real”, add sounds….. In Montreal, they did it. http://www.montrealsoundmap.com/?lang=en Also England: http://sounds.bl.uk/uksoundmap/fusionmap.aspx
Atlas of African cities on Google Earth (of course you must have already downloaded Google Earth): Website Click on Display Africapolis data in Google Earth and then you access to many information from the...
Spatial Search – Draw a Search Area on the Map to Retreive Site Points in Google Earth WEBSITE of DAAHL
The Graphic Show of the World development evolution…… Gapminder Website