Interactive maps of the world population on the INED website
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
Category: Vizualization
Sound Maps
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
Garamond
For the celebration of the 450th anniversary of the death of Claude Garamond http://www.garamond.culture.fr/en/english
Virtual exhibition of typography
The French National Library organizes different virtual exhibitions which are very interested for who wants to learn more about history of books, print and typography. Recently, a new exhibition about the actual creation of...
Twitter City Maps
See different maps of cities drawn by twitter links like this Map of San Francisco
Scale of the Universe
Magnitude of everything….. http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/
The Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land
Spatial Search – Draw a Search Area on the Map to Retreive Site Points in Google Earth WEBSITE of DAAHL
Flights in the sky overhead
http://www.flightradar24.com/ It can zoom the map that is displayed and move by clicking on the arrows to bring up a region and a city. We then see all the planes passing overhead. The map...
Your movements tracked by your IPhone
if you want your own movement (available on your MAC), download the application