A great episode of This American Life on Mapping. This dates all the way back to 1998!
thisamericanlife.org
Link: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/110/mapping
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Map Stack
We all know Stamen Maps and their amazing Watercolor Map powered by Open Street Map but it appears they just got better. Map Stack allows you to take your favorite Stamen maps and stack them, basically you can create mash-ups of all of their maps using up to 5 Layers.
Toner and Water Color (with colors inverted) Map Stack of Portland, OR using an HSL-Color Blend
http://mapstack.stamen.com/
Wired’s MapLab blog
Wired Magazine and the accompanying website have long been one of my favorite sources for geek news. Leave it to Wired to go and start one of my favorite map blogs: Map Lab. The blog is relatively new, July of 2013, but it already offers stories on some of the best maps I’ve seen on the web. Go check it out!
Link to Map Lab: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/maplab/
Maps and the Geospatial Revolution
Ever wondered how to make maps? Now with Coursera, in conjunction with Penn State’s Geography Department, you CAN!! If you haven’t heard of Coursera, it is a Massive Online Open Course or MOOC. This is a free online class from an accredited college that can be taken for fun or for credit with a small fee.
Old Maps Online
I just stumbled upon this real neat website called Old Maps Online. It’s a repository of old paper maps all organized in a really nifty web interface.
Old Maps Online’s Web Interface
NACIS Conference Map Gallery – A Photo Essay
Spending three days at the NACIS 2012 conference was an amazing experience. I went to some incredible sessions but a cartographic conference is really all about the maps. Here are some of my favorites from the maps gallery.
Portland Crossings by Nick Martinelli
Game of Maps
My new obsession has been games using maps as a platform. Generally they are not the most engrossing games and are mere distractions but I am totally fascinated by them. Combining two of my passions, maps and video games, it’s kind of hard to go wrong. Here are a collection of a few of my favorites.
A little while ago Google came out with a map game called Cube for chrome. It’s a simple little game that has you rolling a ball through cities with 3D imagery. In later levels you must obey traffic rules and travel around bridges. I hope that this is just the beginning for more exciting games using Google Maps.
Cube: A game about Google Maps
Map of Thrones
I am currently engrossed deeply in all things Westeros. I am about a third of the way through the last “Game of Thrones” book and have been watching the series every week. The map in the front of the books always left me a bit confused, since it took up multiple pages I’ve had some trouble with the whole world overview. Well thanks to some wonderful folks on the internet, the world of Westeros / The Lands of Ice and Fire are no longer a mystery.
hejorama.com
UPDATE: Grassroots Mapping
Google recently announced that the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science‘s grassroots aerial photography is now available in Google Earth! You can download the tour in KMZ format here.
Link to Google Earth Blog: http://bit.ly/K7J536
OpenStreetMap On The Rise
For those of you that haven’t heard of OpenStreetMap it is basically the Wikipedia of Google maps. They are an “initiative to create and provide free geographic data, such as street maps, to anyone.” This is accomplished by allowing anybody to edit the map.
