"Orienteering" as an information seeking strategy : http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/papers/chi2004-perfectse.pdf by which users make "small steps...used to narrow in on the target" rather than simply typing words in a search box (paper presented at the CHI 2004 conference). Via http://inquiringlibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/04/orienteering-as-information-seeking.html

The key to free occlusion is splitting the iso-hex cells along the horizontal :
http://sc.tri-bit.com/Implementing_Iso_and_Iso_Hex_Grids_on_Tiled_Systems

Fractal Map : http://frac.samurajdata.se/index.php3

'The Power Of Hex' is a Map Plug-in for Lux: The Game of Universal Domination : http://sillysoft.net/lux/maps/To%20The%20Power%20Of%20Hex

3-Letter Words Defined : http://www.scrabble.org.au/words/3sdefs.htm

JavaScript : http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscript5/ The Definitive Guide

GRASS GIS 6.2.0; adds hundreds of new features, support for the latest GIS data formats, and includes new translations for many languages. GRASS includes tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery. Via http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/index.php?duty=Show&id=15705

'The Great Pyramid is located almost at the centre of the land mass of the Earth. ' via FACTS ABOUT THE GREAT PYRAMID : http://www.infinitetechnologies.co.za/articles/thegreatpyramid.html

Examples of live? graphical bugs;

Interesting resource : '"Folk Maps, Cartoon Cartography, and Map Kitsch" in Mercator's World, March/April 2002'

The technique of real-time photo-collaging : http://www.stevekahn.com/photocollages.html requires that the photographer simultaneously compose a larger image that evolves through shooting many related frames.

Side-barred as 'crítica y acción' here : http://hipercroquis.wordpress.com/

"You have no promise that you will see all the seasons of your life.... So, whatever you would like to accomplish in your life please do it quickly!" - author unknown
"The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself." - Mark Tobey
"'EXPECTATION' is the sole difference between "have" and "have not." And this, you have total control over." - TU

Which presidents and political parties were responsible for America's deadliest wars? : http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/american-wars.html

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Get Flash

PICTORIAL MAPS : http://www-viz.tamu.edu/students/asma/research/picmap.html (EXAMPLES); GOAL / PURPOSE, REFERENCES

How GoogleMapBuilder.com works : http://www.googlemapbuilder.com/howitworks.html

Another 'How to do a hex-map?' discussion : http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/realbasic-games/2003-09/msg00062.html

Use of dashed lines, paper for Mobile HCI 2006 [pdf] represents Touch-based interactions with dashed lines, and work on ubicomp iconography uses the dashed line to represent borders, or seams. Via http://www.nearfield.org/2006/09/the-dashed-line-in-use

Book History, Sexy Knowledge, and the Challenge of the New Boredom (PDF)

Researchers teach computers how to name images : http://live.psu.edu/story/20538

Great history of visual communications : http://www.a-website.org/design/instructional/diagrams.html

Magic Folding Cube : http://www.math.nmsu.edu/~breakingaway/Lessons/MFC/MFC.html Instructions here too. Or Buy.

Dissection Tiling : http://library.advanced.org/16661/advanced.math/index.html (The frequency of each smaller polygonal piece, that is, how often it occurs in the dissection tiling, must be in proportion to its area.) However Triangles, Squares, and Hexagons all tile the plane without dissection : http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/distile/

The Access Foundation List© : http://www.anova.org/ is liberal in scope, robust in its cataloging, and voluminously linked to other sites that help readers access and study great literature.

Flickr people who've added me to their contact lists : http://www.flickr.com/people/13964815@N00/ and http://www.flickr.com/people/60591845@N00/

So many historical accounts of Dragons! : http://www.anzwers.org/free/livedragons/dragon.htm How come?

Borat trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvQScRuZj9s

"Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone." - Citat
"Words divide. Pictures unite." - http://www.a-website.org/design/pictohistory/pictograms.html
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." - Oscar Wilde
"Baudelaire loved solitude, but he wanted it in a crowd." - Dickens
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - Kahlil Gibran

Google Acquisitions Mashup : http://www.shmula.com/238/googles-acquisitions-a-timeline

Advanced Visualisation and Virtual Reality in the Social Sciences ... (PDF) - View as HTML

MAKING CAMPAIGN HEXES : http://uk.games-workshop.com/warhammer/hexes/1/ (awesome-looking 3D hex map that can change with each campaign).

CoastLine Fractal Generator Via http://www.math.fau.edu/MLogan/Pattern_Exploration/MainDirections.html

If you’ve wondered how Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo! online maps compare but haven’t had time to try them all, you can play with all three at once here; http://www.rockstarapps.com/samples/map-compare/ Via http://www.cyberhobo.net/hobolinks/category/maps/ (Sites that combine online services in a map interface.)

Helpful reply from the Google API Mandebrot guy re; 'make a flat map using google maps custom tiles'.

(Yellow Pages 2.0) MojoPages : http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/10/30/yellow_pages_20_mojopages.htm - providing an excellent visual time capsule of the birth of a new web 2.0 start-up.

Simple way of unfolding a piece of paper ( for example a street map ) just by pulling the opposite corners : http://www.u3p.net/fold/pliage_a.htm

RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION GRANTS IN ART+SCIENCE+TECHNOLOGY : http://www.fondation-langlois.org/pdf/e/prog_ind.pdf

Mindmap-ish connection of geo-map fragments : http://www.mlac.it/img_luxflux/n9/drills3qg.jpg ------------->

Generating some blog views : http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/56092

TradeSports : http://www.tradesports.com/ the home of real-time predictions (betting exchange).

The Pakistan mirror (?) : http://www.pkblogs.com/greatmap/ of this blog.

"A GREAT discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest, but if it challenges your curiosity and brings into play your inventive faculties, and if you solve it by your own means, you may experience the tension and enjoy the triumph of discovery. " - George Polya (1887- 1985)
“The successful man is the average man, focused.” - Unknown
"Never mind the map. We will find the place itself. " - Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Gilded Age, Part 2
"Things and people are not what we wish them to be, nor what they seem to be. They are what they are." - Epictetus
"... Can you give me a lift?" I said " Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.' ..." - ?

Animation of London Building Growth in Google Earth : http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/10/animation_of_london.html After loading the London buildings file you will be able to see an animation which simulates the buildings being constructed over time (however you MUST have the latest Google Earth 4 beta). It's basically about the Sketchup models rather than cities growing and shrinking, but still very appealing.

Getting Started with the Java 3D API : ( PDF)

Interns Without Borders Map : http://www.frappr.com/internswithoutborders/map

"BIG hex map !" Topic : http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=68843 discussed by Bob in Edmonton

New Google Earth Elections Guide : http://html.wral.com/sh/blogger/2006/10/new-google-earth-elections-guide.html

Why do snow crystals have six arms? : http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/faqs/faqs.htm

Zooming as 'dilatation' (?) Magnification symmetry requires a frame of reference to determine size because zooming in reveals approximately the same shape(s).

Weather icons : http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001o6&topic_id=1 Discussion

A Technology Roadmap : http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/webmaster/article.php/3563876 - The Basic Map

Plaiting Instructions : http://www.mindspring.com/~jimvb/starbossmake.htm (weaving to form 3D models)

Massive multiplayer online role playing game : http://www.tibia.com/home/index.php?subtopic=news

The Future Of Art : http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/10/27/the_future_of_art.htm - How The Internet Is Reshaping Artists' Universe

Download full-length NHL games : http://video.google.com/nhl.html

Credited " Strange Maps site and was pointed out by the eclectic and prolific Great Map." by http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/ See bottom 0f page for BibliOdyssey by Categories

"There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer." - Quoted in H Eves Return to Mathematical Circles (Boston 1988).
"Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters. " - http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Quotations/Polya.html
"Two blondes walk into a building.... you'd think at least one of them would have seen it." - ?
"Don't fall for a magic world; We humans got it all; Every one of us Has a heaven inside." - Kate Bush
"Don't be afraid to explore; Without exploration there are no discoveries. Don't be afraid of partial solutions; Without the tentative there is no accomplishment." - Tao

Experiment using Google maps to provide a novel way of viewing large fractal images : http://www.checkbit.co.uk/fractalmap/ Also AUTOMATIC FRACTAL MAP GENERATOR : http://saw.altervista.org/map/index.html generates map files used by Winfract & Fractint.

(Unlike a simple hierarchical scheme) faceted classification gives the users the ability to find items based on more than one dimension.

KNOWLEDGE MAPPING WITH COMPENDIUM IN ACADEMIC RESEARCH (PDF) - View as HTML

CultMap (SF) : http://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast/2006/10/cultmap_sf.html ... proposing a new mapping project.

Swarm : http://labs.digg.com/swarm/ spontaneously makes mindmap connections on mouse roll-over.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ( UPTO) Search brought a visitor for a couple of minutes (something pending?)

Interesting timeline information

Censorship and Controversy in Contemporary Art : http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/art/overview.php

HexPop-up : http://www.americanslidechart.com/images/newpopup.gif comprise a pair of parallel and congruent regular hexagons and two rows of congruent isosceles trapezoids (mechanism instantly springs into a 3-dimensional shape when removed from its envelope).

Center for Graphic Facilitation : http://graphicfacilitation.blogs.com/pages/

Indymedia reporter Brad Will was shot and killed while covering the siege in Oaxaca, Mexico last week. This is probably the first death of a citizen journalist during the era of citizen journalism (their passion and faith also keeps them sustainable, at least more so than the prospects of a free t-shirt.)

The Snowflake Method for Writing a Novel : http://www.rsingermanson.com/html/the_snowflake.html

"You can make thick or thin lines, Dotted or blotted lines
Lines going up and lines going down
Hot jagged lines orLines that are cool Lines that go splash right in a pool.
Your line can make a square Or your line can make a round.
Your line can be fast Or slow like a caterpillar Down on the ground.
A line can move you like a swing A line can be most anything." - Leonard Kessler, 'What's in a Line?'

"To draw, you must close your eyes and sing." - Pablo Picasso
"The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea. " - from How to Solve It (Princeton 1945)
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return." - Leonardo da Vinci

Online Hex Map tool for remote client/server Gaming : http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42689

Demonstration for rendering WMS overlays using GoogleMaps V2 (>2.36)... started with code developed by Brian Flood and Kyle Mulka and ended up re-writing most of that class for V2 using code and examples from Mike Williams. Via http://johndeck.blogspot.com/ Demonstration implementing Mercator/Globe

Magnifier : http://www.abf-soft.com/magnifying-tools/manual/magnifier.htm is a magnifying panel that shows the area around cursor in different zooms (the panel can be float or aligned to any side of the screen).

Visualizing Time-Series on Spirals : http://www.dgm.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/spiral.pdf (PDF) - View as HTML

ORIENTEERING & ADVENTURE RUNNING MAPS : http://www.dontgetlost.ca/gho/maps.htm Under development ; http://www.wayfaring.com/maps/show/4405

Flu Map : http://whiskeyandacigarette.org/rambles/?p=34

Here is a program to generate an image of the Mandelbrot set : http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mcba/phys2020/notes/mandelbrot.html The Mandelbrot set is a fascinating example of a fractal complexity that can be generated from a very simple equation: z = z*z + c.

Toufee : http://www.toufee.com/ is a web based editor that allows you to create and publish flash movies and presentations online.

Is your blog blocked in India, Pakistan, Iran or China? If Yes then you can still access your blog anytime using inblogs free Blog Gateway http://www.inblogs.net/greatmap/ for mirror? to this one? With http://www.inblogs.net/blogname access your blog anytime - anywhere!

"To draw, you must close your eyes and sing." - Pablo Picasso
"I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it." - Errol Flynn, d. October 14, 1959
" When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds -- your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. " - Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century before modern era), from Hindu philosophy, a significant contributor to codifying the practice of Yoga
"This principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible." - http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Quotations/Polya.html

Tiled Hexagon Tessellation : Get the Tiled Hexagon Tessellation PDF Document here or the original, slightly more confusing and crease-pattern-filled version, available here. Via http://www.origamitessellations.com/ Origami Tessellations. Also http://www.origamitessellations.com/diagrams/spread-hex-tessellation/ and Images

Developing a thin-client web application (strategy game) that needs a map of a very large geographical area divided into hexagons, called a 'hexmap' : http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t139195-interesting-thinclient-problem.html Discussion

Free online Concept Mapping : http://ctools.msu.edu/ctools/index.html (CTools at Michigan State) you can "preload" the map with the concepts you want and then have your students go to the map and make the map with the concepts you have provided. Via http://learningdigitally.blogspot.com/2005/06/ctools-at-michigan-state-free-online.html

Creating knowledge maps in Virtual Learning Environments (PDF) - View as HTML

Worst Places in the World : http://www.sprol.com/ shows the visual macroscopic effects of the decisions and behavior of our society.

Gallery of Data Visualization : http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/bright-ideas.html - Bright Ideas

Mapping and Mysticism : http://www.reciprocality.org/Reciprocality/r0/Day7.html (half-way down) ... Mappers can respond flexibly and are the only people in a position to propose new approaches.

The game of Hex :http://www.drking.plus.com/hexagons/hex/index.html was invented in 1942 by Danish mathematician Piet Hein (try the game on this Java applet ), and John Nash(?); http://www.mazeworks.com/hex7/about/invent.htm

A circus of art : http://www.themat.org/html/outreach/jim/guffaw-study.html through the eyes of a clown !

The Story of Geographical Discovery by Joseph Jacobs : http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14291 Download this ebook for fr.ee

Adam MindMap : http://www.understandquran.com/pdf/other/adam%20-%20pbuh.jpg to generate interest in the Qur'an. Via http://www.understandquran.com/genint.htm

In control (?) http://www.northcom.mil/ of the (Canadian?) northwest passage? Not.

Local VOIP alternative : http://www.shiftnetworks.com/products-services/index.aspx

خريطه كبيرة
大地图 = GreatMap translated (?)

"If you're still alive, there is always one more thing that you can do." - Laurence Gonzales, National Geographic Adventure'' magazine, Nov. 2003, pg. 92
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"The way to grow grand is not to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield." - Piet Hein
"Having a perilous adventure is always better than comatose safety. Always, always, always, always, always.'' - from "Ascending'' by James Alan Gardner, 2001 (paperback ed.)
"First we see the hills in the paintings, then we see the paintings in the hills." - Li Li-Weng (17th Century)