Top ten (non-Google) map innovations : http://www.lifehacker.com/software/maps/technophilia-top-ten-nongoogle-map-innovations-211149.php

Review of Visualization in the Social Sciences (PDF) historical

Fractal Architecture : http://www.iemar.tuwien.ac.at/modul23/Fractals/subpages/221rugged.html (example of scale-dependence is the length-measurements of borders between countries).

(Embedded in a pdf file, but good example of) Extreme Zoom : http://iscs.teamspam.net/pdf/iscs_jp_3057.pdf Via Inner Sphere Cartography Society Archive

'Nam Maps : http://www.rjsmith.com/topo_map.html "The North Vietnamese Army (NVA) units could easily slip into neutral Cambodia whenever U.S. Army pressure proved too much for them. These sanctuary areas allowed them respite from the incessant U.S. air, artillery, and ground attacks, and was a major reason the NVA was not defeated entirely."

Physical Map of the Coterminous United States : http://www.shadedrelief.com/physical/index.html (Click map to see it in an interactive viewer).

(Animated) Religion History Map : http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html See how has the geography of religion evolved over 5,000 years (in 90 seconds).

Optimizing Images for Search Engines : http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3624327

(Book) Visualization and Holistic Data Mining : http://www.KDnuggets.com/news/2006/n24/22i.html - among top trends for 2007.

MapArtist : http://www.kentgallery.com/cusindex.htm An exhibition of Matthew Cusick’s art, which uses collages of old maps, just wrapped up. Via

"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer." - J. Bronowski
"Plan to throw one away; you will anyhow." - F. Brooks ("The Mythical Man-Month", Chapter 11)
"If you plan to throw one away, you will throw away two." - C. Zerouni
"I saw a funny cartoon once in the New Yorker." - Archibald Sarantoff
"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure." - Oscar Wilde