"Knowledge mapping " is a general term that covers:
+ mapping public issues ("social messes," "wicked problems" e.g., Robert Horn)
+ mind maps (e.g., Inspiration software)
+ pattern languages (e.g., Christopher Alexander)
+ DialogueMapping (e.g., CogNexus Institute)
+ GraphicFacilitation (e.g., David Sibbet)
+ geographical information mapping (GIS - Geographical Information Systems)
and may include more traditional visuals such as :
+ quantitative charts and graphs
+ process and procedure flow charts
+ timelines
+ and all other forms of visual presentation of information, especially of relationships (e.g. Edward Tufte) : http://www.siliconyogi.com/andreas/it_professional/sol7/EmergentLearningMaps.html

Visualizing a dynamic knowledge map using Semantic Web technology : http://www.semtalk.com/pub/KimFillies.htm
Unlike a chemistry model where only physically adjacent nodes (atoms) can be connected, in a semantic network any two nodes (concepts) may be connected — regardless of how far away they may be from each other. The challenge in this scenario is to present a meaningful visualization of the underlying knowledge structure while providing intuitive understanding, eliminating visual clutter and maintaining aesthetic appeal. http://www.semanticresearch.com/semantic/visualization.php Clicking on any of the related concepts will navigate to that concept as the central concept, displaying a new graphic frame.

Symbol Signs / of pictograms : http://www.get2testing.com/Pics_TOC_E.htm http://www.get2testing.com/Pics_AIGA_E.htm

Google Map hack example : http://code.blogneato.com/google/gmap.html?xml=whiteCastle.xml (similar to what I'd like to start with).

Fractal/art : http://portal.brint.com/cgi-bin/cgdir/cgdir.cgi?vid=l20911521186I1125589868&cgmd=x&lout=dyn&partner=&cat=//Science/Math/Chaos_and_Fractals/Fractal_Art/&ctt=Fractal%20Art
Cubism : http://www.paintings-directory.com/centre-uk.php?CATEGORIE=3

"What we need to understand may only be expressible in a language that we do not know." -Anthony Judge
"Traveller, there is no path. Paths are made by walking." - Antonio Machado
"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
"The cruelest disappointment is when you let yourself down. ". - ?

Pedro Talks With God
Pedro was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an important meeting and couldn't find a parking place.
Looking up toward heaven, he said "Lord, take pity on me. If you find me a parking place I will go to Mass every Sunday for the rest of my life and give up tequila."
Miraculously, a parking place appeared.
Pedro looked up again and said "Never mind. I found one."

What Mapquest is looking like these days : http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?city=Wilkes%2dBarre&state=PA&country=United%20States (still no satellite photos).

Web 2.0 for Designers :
“… content will be more important than its container in this next phase [of the Web]…Tom Curley, CEO, Associated Press (keynote speech to the Online News Association Conference on Nov. 12, 2004. According to Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, "Web 2.0 is a world of thin front ends and powerful back ends". : http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2005/08/30/what_is_web_20.htm on article at http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_2_for_designers/
- Writing semantic markup (transition to XML)
- Providing Web services (moving away from place)
- Remixing content (about when and what, not who or why)
- Emergent navigation and relevance (users are in control)
- Adding metadata over time (communities building social information)
- Shift to programming (separation of structure and style)

http://www.gmdir.com/ has approximately 175 Google Map examples in the Directory todate.

Here is a simple Google API example that gets one into the world of; var xmlFileName = "datawhatever.xml" http://www.fadedshadow.com/mapping/appmaptest3.php (but requires a php server? is there a way to use a simple Excel.xls file to start learning about this approach?), or can I use something like this sample xml file? http://www.fadedshadow.com/mapping/data-all.xml
Good example using "layers" notion : http://lordkingsquirrel.com/ebgmp/mac_county.html
Image and zoom functionality included in pop-up bubble : http://globalcoordinate.com/
Includes ability to add a point and a photo corresponding to that location : http://www.panoramio.com/
SourceForge Google Maps hacking discussion : http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=forums&forum_id=388073&group_id=113492&words=google+map

An example of the "Band Apart" philosophy : (Die Außenseiterbande) http://www.bfi.org.uk/booksvideo/video/details/bandeapart/background.html

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It's not as if one day you'll just look down, and discover that you're on the yellow brick road, living the life of your dreams; but that one day you'll just look back and discover you always have been." - The Universe

Interesting timelime at http://www.bbsr.edu/pubs/ar98_cover/ar98_time/ar98_time.html

Charles Web Debugging Proxy : http://www.xk72.com/charles/ enables a developer to view all of the HTTP traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).

Map resource links : http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/maplinks.htm

"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next." - John Stuart Mill, British philosopher, economist (1806-1873)
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson, US poet (1871-1962)
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." - Jonathan Swift, Irish clergyman, satirist (1667-1745)
"Character is doing what's right when nobody is looking." - JC Watts, US congressman (b.1957)
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Anais Nin, US author (1903-1977)
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." - Ansel Adams, US photographer (1902-1984)
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain, US novelist (1835-1910)
"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and wishes." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist, poet (1803-1882)
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment." - Robert Benchley, US author (1889-1945) http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=51794

eLearning map at http://www.atenea.it/international/Etna/map/e-learning.jpg

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Tufteisms from The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983):
Graphical excellence is the well-designed presentation of interesting data - a matter of substance, of statistics, and of design.
Graphical excellence consists of complex ideas communicated with clarity, precision, and efficiency.
Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.
Graphical excellence is nearly always multivariate.
The revelation of the complex.
Graphical excellence requires telling the truth about data.
Graphics must not quote data out of context.
Above all else, show the data.
Clear, detailed, and thorough labeling should be used to defeat graphical distortion and ambiguity.
Write out explanations of the data on the graphic itself.
Label important events in the data.
The number of graphic dimensions depicted should not exceed the number of data dimensions.
Forgo chart junk.
Maximize the data-ink ratio.
Erase non-data and redundant-data ink.
Revise and edit. From http://www.cartotalk.com/index.php?showtopic=285

Cartography is Dead (Thank God!) (download/view the PDF here originally published in Cartographic Perspectives number 45, Spring 2003) by Denis Wood : http://makingmaps.owu.edu/mm/cartographydead.pdf

Throughout history maps have taken on meaning well beyond their practical application of providing directions. Artists have always been interested in maps. As author Julia Cameron stated, "The artist is a cartographer; he maps the world. The world within him, and the world as he sees it." http://www.johnsonese.com/ (This show will feature art about or made from maps by 16 artists from across the US: Kim Baranowski, Aileen Bassis, Pip Brant, Eileen Doughty, Rodney Ewing, Dawn Gavin, Pamela Goffinet, Greg Haberny, Tamara Kostianovsky, Lilianne Milgrom, Garry Noland, Betsy Packard, June Szabo, Adrianne Watson,Scot Wittman, Jeff Woodbury).

Best example of muti-panel animated GIF http://blog.loaz.com/media/crazy.gif simulating linear motion.

Safety themed imagery : http://images.google.co.th/imgres?imgurl=http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/ashore/images/ormelearning.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/ashore/articles/ORMe-learning.htm&h=654&w=780&sz=138&tbnid=7AvlfbvMyPQJ:&tbnh=118&tbnw=141&hl=en&start=48&prev=/images%3Fq%3De-learning%26start%3D40%26imgsz%3Dxxlarge%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

"For every person with a spark of genius, there are a hundred with ignition trouble. - ?

How to make your own compass : http://www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/find/find/compass.shtml

"Meaning seems at its root to be about connections: between individuals, between groups of individuals, and, also, within individuals, in that it can be experienced powerfully as new or better links between previously disconnected internal bits of us." : Understanding Meaning : http://www.management-issues.com/display_page.asp?section=bayler&id=2311

World Wild Web 'small pieces loosely joined'

"Mapmaker, Mapmaker, make me a Map" : http://www.hbschool.com/activity/mapmaker/mapmaker.html drawn by kids from verbal descriptions.

Themed mazes are powerful kinesthetic learning tools. The synergy between the physical act of exploring a maze while mentally interacting with the curriculum engages and educates visitors of all ages and creates a memorable experience. : http://www.minotaurmazes.com World's No.1 Maze Company : http://www.mazemaker.com/
Labyrinth Resource Centre : http://www.labyrinthos.net/f_homepage.htm
Visual thinking puzzles : http://www.scottkim.com/

"... as you suddenly find the path that you sought lies beneath your skipping feet." - The Universe

FlashEarth which lets you compare Google Maps to MSN’s Virtual Earth. : http://www.flashearth.com/

First example use of Google Maps JavaScriptAPI : http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/Navigation/EdmontonMap.htm

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail." - Dr. Edwin Land

Interesting (?) timeline feature "where you can walk through your map in the order that your photos were taken." : http://www.smugmug.com/hack/maps-overview . Discussed at http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/08/smugmug_maps_go.html

"In our practices words and the choice of words is very important, but there are times when we have all felt that if only we could just show the client what we mean, a break through could be made"...: http://www.sachinternational.com/library/higher_diploma_seminars/mark_ann_turnbull.htm

Google Maps API homepage : http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ . Online documentation : http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/ . Joined http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?msg=subscribe to start development in this environment. Good tutorial http://blog.kylemulka.com/?p=287 from one of the leading hacks.

Pay Per Call Progress Report : http://www.pandia.com/sw-2005/46-ingenio.html , and new announcement : http://www.netimperative.com/2005/08/18/Miva_pay_per_call Billed as an alternative to traditional pay-per-click search advertising, the pay-per-call service allows advertisers to create ads and distribute them across the network of partner websites.

Newest anti-Adware program : http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/?ref=afl_infopackets as well as free virus scanners, and some can even be run online; Trend Micro's Housecall (will scan your computer for viruses and spyware directly from the web(, andPanda ActiveScan (scans, disinfects and eliminates over 90,000 viruses, worms and trojans). From http://www.askbobrankin.com/free_virus_scan.html

(from http://www.illumine.co.uk/hints-quotations.htm) :
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination." - Albert Einstein
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - Sir John Lubbock
"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows." - Epictetus (c.55 - c.135)
"Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain." - Edward De Bono
"Pain is temporary, quitting lasts for ever." - Lance Armstrong, 6 time Winner of Tour De France
"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking." - Goethe
"A wonderful harmony arises from joining together the seemingly unconnected." - Heraclitus c.500 BC
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot
"Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief." - Arthur Koestler
"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor." - Aristotle
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde on Creativity
"The basis of creativity has always been a new connection. To make connections would take hours using words. Your subconscious has to use pictures." - William JJ Gordon
"Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers." - Gilbert Ryle
"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in 2 small jumps." - David Lloyd George
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D Roosevelt