Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! Unite to Support Sitemaps : http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2006/11/15/microsoft-google-yahoo-unite-to-support-sitemaps.aspx See Via

Visual Representation of What’s Popular : http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/2006/11/10/visual-representation-of-whats-popular-digg-stacks (Digg Stacks); http://labs.digg.com/stack/ is an evolving graph of what's popular at digg.

(Some time toward the end of this year) FortiusOne : http://www.fortiusone.com/ plans to open a public data repository and social network for data sharing to encourage the creation of dynamic online map mashups that combine multiple data sets. Via http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=194400701

Internet Map Catalogue : http://www.maps.ethz.ch/map_catalogue-world.html

Crisis in the Middle East : http://truthlaidbear.com/mideastcrisis_map.php Mapping the Conflict

HexEngine ('99) is a set of classes designed to easily implement hex-based map> graphics in a game program (or whatever use you might find for such> graphics). Via

METRIC COMBINATORICS OF CONVEX POLYHEDRA (PDF) - View as HTML

U.S Army Divisions in Word War II : http://www.historyshots.com/usarmy/ Maps of the Formation, Expansion and Campaign History (of all 91 divisions of the U.S. Army Ground Forces from 1939 to 1945). Via http://del.icio.us/ssn/maps

Conference on Spatial Information Theory : http://www.cosit.info/ (scheduled for Melbourne, Australia, September 19-23, 2007)

(Elementary) RESEARCHING ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION : (PDF) - View as HTML

Crack heads : http://www.crackfound.com/engine.cgi?text=pro&pass=2670

"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge, 1872- 1933, 30th President of the US
"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well." - Antione de Saint Exupery
"An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war." - Mark Twain
“The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.” - Igor Sikorsky
"It is not enough to aim; you must hit." - Italian Proverb
"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. " - John Mason Brown

GIS Day : http://www.gisday.com/

MapShop: http://www.murrayhudson.com/maps2.pdf View as HTML

A Tight Polyhedral Immersion of the Twisted Surface of Euler ... : http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/papers/1998-08.Topology/Tight2.pdf (PDF) - View as HTML

World's maps on polyhedra nets : http://torina.fe.uni-lj.si/~izidor/CuriousMaps/Curious.html

Effective little visual index above the map : http://www.interkriti.org/map6.htm Via http://www.mepa.org.mt/Census/links.htm#interactive

InfoGraphic : http://utangente.free.fr/2003/governingbynetworks.pdf Via http://utangente.free.fr/index2.html

Introduction to Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics : http://brain.cc.kogakuin.ac.jp/~kanamaru/Chaos/e/ Try Bifurcation of Logistic map . Fractal Basin Boundary , Standard Map ...

The Whole Visualization Toolkit FAQ : http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/vtkfaq?req=all ('vtk' is a software system for 3D Computer Graphics).

Hexagonal texels : http://intepid.com/2005-01-24/15.22/ (or hexels).

Mine : http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=map&domains=http%3A%2F%2F3quarksdaily.blogs.com&sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2F3quarksdaily.blogs.com

To lead innovation, think like an artist : http://www.cio.com/archive/101506/inspired.html
Artists routinely say their best ideas seem to come from outside of themselves; what they do is give form to those ideas through whatever medium they are working in, be it painting, sculpture, dance, music, film or literature.

(Book) Maps of Meaning : http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/~peterson/mom.htm#Book The Architecture of Belief (Routledge, 1999) Description and Reviews.

Origami hub : http://www.wannalearn.com/Crafts_and_Hobbies/Origami/

The Last Man Who Knew Everything : http://www.newstatesman.com/Books/200611130051 Via http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2006/11/the_last_man_wh.html

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied." - Arnold Glasow
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb
"Chaos Theory; the science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being." - James Gleick, American science writer
"Most prayers are over "how dreams will come true," instead of what people really want." - The Universe
"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." - David Lloyd George

Photosynth Technology Preview : http://labs.live.com/photosynth/default.html takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next. Via http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127812-c,webservices/article.html

Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization : http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/ An illustrated chronology of innovations.

A Map of Sacred Stories of the Ancient World : http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Sacred_Stories.pdf Via http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Hindu_Cosmology.htm

Weblog about the '05 Malofiej Infographics Workshop and Conference : http://malofiej.blogspot.com/ "You Don´t Have to Draw to Be Good".

Geometry and the Imagination : http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/gi/gi/gi.html

Different search results presentation : http://www.google.com/ie?q=google+earth+russell+smith+road&hl=en&lr=&start=330&sa=N

Google Maps adds "Click-to-call" : http://juberti.blogspot.com/2006/11/google-maps-adds-click-to-call.html

THE 21st CENTURY IN PICTURES : http://stateoftheworld.reuters.com/?src=mid_sotw_home

War and Conflict | View Slideshow

Famous Last Words : http://www.digital-karma.org/culture/quotes/famous-peoples-last-words

Why They Hate US : http://whytheyhate.us/

"A year from now you may wish you had started today." - Karen Lamb
"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still." - ?
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Speak the truth, but leave immediately after." - Slovenian Proverb
"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." - Frank Tibolt
"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. - D.H. Lawrence

Map Morphing : http://www.edgelab.ca/r_mapMorphing Using both blending and distortion, the maps appear to merge into one another. This allows the user to directly visualize how the two maps diverge from one another in their presentation. Via http://flame.cs.dal.ca/~reilly/

Click 'Polygon - add Hexagon' : http://www.wingo.com/gmaps/index.html (also displays zoom level and lat/long).

Interactive Mecca Satellite Map : http://www.sacred-destinations.com/saudi-arabia/mecca-satellite-map.htm The white structure that can be seen in Mecca is the huge Holy Mosque.

Folk Festival Map : http://www.canterburyfolkfestival.on.ca/id8.htm

Between the oldest and the most modern incarnation of the printed atlas there are 500 years of mapping history filled with debate over how to represent the world; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5413010.stm

Map Comparison : http://www.kickdesign.com/mapcomparison/pages/2_LOWERMANHATTANCOMPAR.htm (side-by-side)

Tree Of Life web sitemap : http://www.ladyada.net/

Another map-related RSS reader? : http://www.svgx.org/cartography/

Visual Media Online Exhibitions : http://www.visual-media.eu/exhibition.html

State of the Blogosphere : http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/11/161.html

No Hexagonal Wave around Saturns Southern Pole (PDF) - HTML-Version

Funnies : http://strippette.blogspot.com/

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain
"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh." - Philip Dormer Stanhope 1694–1773, Earl of Chesterfield.
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao-tzu Via
"After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done." - Author Unknown
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. " - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900-1944, poet, inventor, aviator Via

THREE DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE PICTORIAL MAPS : https://txspace.tamu.edu/bitstream/1969.1/1571/1/etd-tamu-2004C-VIZA-Naz.pdf PDF- Version HTML

(CSS/DOM-based) Draggable Magnifiers : http://persistent.info/archives/2004/05/08/magnifier (This follow-up may be worthwhile reading as well. ) Example Another one with code : http://valid.tjp.hu/zoom/index_en.html and another demo http://crockford.com/ynh/demo3.html (using round lens).

Building and Applying Geographical Information System Grids : http://complexity.ucs.indiana.edu/~asayar/gisgrids/docs/publications/GISGrids_Concurrency-MEP (File Format: Microsoft Word) - View as HTML

Facsimile Project for historical maps : The Israel-Lebanon Conflict in Google Earth 2 comments [+]

Create a gif animation from uploaded pictures : http://gickr.com/upload_files or Get images from Flickr

Garmin LBS Toolkit : http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/index.php?duty=Show&id=15778&trv=1 a flexible location-based service platform that incorporates Garmin's navigation API, local search, real-time content delivery services and mobile advertising delivery services.

A Strategic Plan for the International Cartographic Association : http://www.icaci.org/en/ICA_Strategic_Plan_2003-08-16.pdf (PDF) - View as HTML , a SWOT analysis.

The Writing Problems of Visual Thinkers : http://www.longleaf.net/ggrow/WriteVisual/WriteVisual.html

Virtual 'Artist in Residence' opportunity : http://arsvirtua.com/residence.html

A quick overview : http://money.cnn.com/data/sectors/techstocks/

Political Cartoons of the week : http://home.comcast.net/~garyfoss3/opedreview.htm

Collage show : http://home.earthlink.net/~ibid4/album/index.html

"Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." - Braveheart (William Wallace, 1270 -1305) the great Scottish hero.
"I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess." - Walt Disney
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
"The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say." - William Shakespeare (King Lear)
"Fortune favors the bold." - Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro:70 BC - 19 BC), Latin Poet

MemoryMap : http://flickr.com/photos/bishoff/32809168/in/pool-memorymaps/ Example roll-over annotations.

How To Make A Map : http://evs-islands.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-to-make-map-image-to-map-repost.html - Image to Map

mkhexgrid : http://www.nomic.net/~uckelman/mkhexgrid/ A fully-configurable hex grid generator (the source code may be downloaded).

'fractal map' finds at Free Downloads Center : http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best/fractal-map.html

Vanished Palestinian Villages in Google Earth : http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/310630/an//page/0/vc/1 interesting article about vanished palestininan villages commented in Google Earth : http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3274796,00.html . Via Ogle Earth and GE Blog links and http://appdomains.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/17/1338215

Watch the sun rise and set all over the world : http://www.die.net/earth/ on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth's patterns of sunlight, darkness, and cloud cover based on current weather satellite data.

Gamers discuss 'Hexagon maps' : http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=205009

Firefox Extension Roundup : http://www.lifehacker.com/software/firefox-extensions/firefox-extension-roundup-213046.php

Review this search

Comparison of Blogger image upload looks;
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Map Gown : http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/images/aria/ng/z/ng-2000-5.z

Visual Communication: Images with Messages (Paul Martin Lester's book);
sense, select, and perceive light eye, retina, and the brainvisual cues: color, form, depth, and movement visual theories visual persuasion media stereotypes visual analysis perspectives typography graphic design informational graphics cartoonsphotography motion pictures television and video computers world wide web the more you know; the more you see

"I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race." - Bertrand Russell, Education and the Social Order
"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish." - Jean De La Fontaine
"We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey." - John Hope Franklin
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt

A Simple Custom Map : http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/googlemaps/custommap.htm (you first need to create a set of 256*256 tiles), other steps are well described in The Mapki

The difference between fractal and space dimensions : http://pros.orange.fr/quatuor/english/fractal_21.htm

Zamzar: http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php supports conversion between a wide variety of different file formats (currently stores converted files for a 24 hour period, within which you download).

GasPrice Map " : http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx and here for Canada prices.

London Underground geographic maps : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_geographic_maps

See Web Map Service (WMS) site listings in the catalog : http://www.wms-sites.com/catalog (by following links to individual layers, you can see those layers mapped). Via http://chris.narx.net/

Powerpoint presentations : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyaCwW4Q9Do&eurl= cut the words out !!

Lux Delux Maps & Plugins : http://sillysoft.net/plugins/pictures.php(ordered by user rankings).

Virtual Earth Tile Server (is the backend for local.live.com and it provides capabilities for adding maps to your web site); The row count goes top-down (N-S) and the column count is from left-right (W-E). The number of rows/columns increases as the zoom level increases. It's also important to know what distance each tile represents. this can be calculated to determine meters per pixel.
zoom level / meters per pixel
01 78271.52
02 39135.76
03 19567.88
04 9783.94
05 4891.97
06 2445.98
07 1222.99
08 611.50
09 305.75
10 152.87
11 76.44
12 38.22
13 19.11
14 9.55
15 4.78
16 2.39
17 1.19
18 0.60
19 0.30 Via http://www.viavirtualearth.com/VVE/Articles/WorldWind.ashx

Submitting a Google Sitemaps Does Not Guarantee Indexing : http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006660.html (typical WebmasterWorld thread)

Theory of the Dérive : http://www.ubu.com/papers/debord_derive.html (Guy Debord) as well as an explanation by thenonist about what Flâneur is all about. Via Moon River

Download fresh political cartoons, gag cartoons, caricatures, graphic art and illustrations by award-winning artists : http://zone.artizans.com

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Test if these could work in side-bar : Save · Via

"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." - Epictetus
"Does that fact that each earthly life is so incredibly brief, add to or detract from, its sublime magnificence?" - The Universe
"The reverse side also has a reverse side." - Japanese Proverb
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." - Socrates
"The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr." -
Mohammed