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Animated Maps in Google Earth
Google Earth can display geographic data with a time component, and thus show animated maps. Animated mapping has garnered much attention among cartographers in the last decade. I created a few Google...
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Custom Map Symbols in Google Maps
Google’s My Maps allows the easy creation of pseudo map mash-ups, where you can map your own data as points, lines, and area symbols with Google Maps as the background. I wrote about My Maps – basic...
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Map Songs: Longitude and Latitude Song
Maps and cartography are not particularly popular as song themes. But there is the Longitude and Latitude Song (MP3 file here). Careful or you’ll be singing this one out loud in your cubicle....
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Making Maps with Sound
Quite a few years ago I wrote an overview article on the use of sound for representing geographic data, including a series of sound variables for mapping I developed. The article was titled “Sound and...
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Rethinking Maps
Lukewarm off the presses, a tome chock full of lofty thoughts on maps and mapping. The blurb about Rethinking Maps, edited by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, and Chris Perkins (Routledge 2009), sez: Maps...
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