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Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Maps
Mapping Libraries (and Museums)
Justin Grimes, of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, has created a couple of interactive maps that detail the saturation of libraries and museums across the United States: Peruse the Map of Public Libraries for a few minutes, and … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, Groups, Libraries, Maps
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Google Election Maps
The mid-term elections are shaping up to be quite dramatic (although not quite the roller-coaster ride that we had with the 2008 election season). And Google has come up with a new way to visualize the flood of data that … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, History, Maps, Online Services, Politics, Web Design
Tagged 2010 Election, election, Google, Google Maps, Government, History, Politics
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Census Atlas of the United States
Census Atlas of the United States is the first publication of a “comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since the 1920s.” The maps are beautiful and easy to use, although I doubt that an atlas … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Maps, Publishing, Web Design
Tagged Bureau of the Census, free online edition, United States, USD
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Presidential Primary Results
I am a bit of a political junkie… and it generally won’t spill over onto this blog. However, one resource that I have found very interesting when examining Ohio and New Hampshire results has been Google Maps coverage of the … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, Maps, News, Politics
Tagged Google, Iowa, New Hampshire, Ohio, search engine
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World Digital Library
The World Digital Library is a project that is quite vast in scope, but is looking ready to take on the challenge of combining primary historical resources from many of the worlds great libraries. This project was started by UNESCO … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Maps, Open Source, Search, Software, Video, Web Design
Tagged Congress, Digital Library The World Digital Library, One Big Library, Open Source Software, search parameters, the Washington Post, U.S. Library of Congress, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Orga, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Orga, Washington Post, World Digital Library
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OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a U.K.-based project that fulfills a great need: an open, collaborative mapping project. Ever find an error in MapQuest, Google Maps, or Yahoo Maps? Can’t do much about it, can you? OpenStreetMap will be able to be updated … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, Maps, Online Services, Open Access, Web Design
Tagged Google, Linux, U.S. Census Bureau, United States, Yahoo
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Melissa DATA
They’ve been around for a while, but I haven’t blogged about them yet, and they keep adding great features, so here is another great site for finding info related to location: Melissa DATA has links to resources that give you … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Online Databases, Online Services, Statistics, WebSearch
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Border Patrol, Library Style
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House has a somewhat unique situation: it straddles the U.S.-Canadian border. Now, according to this article in the Washington Times, the U.S. Border Patrol is cracking down on those who cross the border to … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Libraries, Maps, News
Tagged Haskell, Library Style The
Haskell Free Library, Library Style The
Haskell Free Library, the Washington Times;, U.S.-Canadian border, United States, Washington Times
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Geonames
Geonames is an online database of places. Type in the name of a place, be it a town, city, geographic feature, or landmark, and you get a list of places with that name. Want to know how many places in … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Online Databases, Search, Travel
Tagged Anytown, Colorado, Illinois, online database
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It’s a Wiki… It’s a Skymap…
It’s WikiSky! Ideal for answering the question “was that object in the western sky a star or planet?”, as well as many other star / constellation type questions. It also includes photographs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Online Databases, Open Access, Space, Wiki
Tagged Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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USGS Land Cover Database
It’s not at the “web-based, jump in – the water’s fine” stage (though they indicate that they are working towards this), but the United States Geologic Service (USGS) has developed a National Land Cover Database from 2001 LandSat imagery. This … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Maps, Online Databases, Space
Tagged United States Geologic Service
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U.S. Schools Search
As part of their real estate search area, Yahoo has debuted a School Search feature that provides information and reports on schools throughout the country. from Search Engine Land
Posted in Education, Maps, Search, WebSearch
Tagged real estate search area, search engine, Yahoo
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Neighboroo
Neighboroo is one of the many mashups that exist using the Google Maps as the user interface. What Neighboroo does is give you a visual geographic layout of a variety of statistics, while doing a great job explaining those stats, … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Maps, Online Databases, Politics, Search, Statistics, Travel, Web Design
Tagged Google
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Distance Calculator
Here is a distance calculator that takes the concept a step further than Google Maps or Mapquest… it recognizes location names other than address information. Think in terms of buildings, statues, monuments, etc. Want to see how long of a … Continue reading
Posted in Maps
Tagged Congress, Google, Library of Congress, Lincoln Memorial
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Libre Map Project is Liberated!
The Libre Map Project had a goal of raising $1600 to fund their project. Once that goal was met, they would open their collection of maps to the world. They met their goal… in less than 24 hours. Now the … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Open Access, Search
Tagged Internet Archive, USD
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Calisphere
From the University of California, Calisphere is an archival collection of digitized images, maps, documents and more. from ResourceShelf
Posted in Libraries, Maps, Online Databases, Open Access, Search
Tagged California, University of California
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Trulia
Trulia is a Google Maps mashup which combines the map, at whatever zoom you choose, and real estate listings. Hover over the marker and see the address and asking price of the property. Click and get the option to get … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Maps, Online Databases, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, real estate listings
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FlightStats
FlightStats is an informative site that offers real-time information, including a mapped location of a plane at any time during its flight, the weather at the departure and arrival airports, and much more from ResourceShelf
Posted in Maps, Online Databases, Search, Weather
Tagged informative site, real-time information
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Get yer Geocode here!
Address Map Coordinate (Lat/Long) Finder will convert an address to a latitude/longitude coordinate, as well as show you the location via Yahoo maps. Oddly enough, the geocode link within the map takes you to Google Maps. They also work with … Continue reading
Google Help
I’m a few days late in posting this one, but Google has set up a fairly extensive Help Center to provide information and assistance for the wide varieties of Google services. In addition, Google’s blog notes that they received a … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Maps, Search, Weather, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Help Center, Hurricane Katrina, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
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