The Google Maps API lets developers embed Google Maps in their own web pages with JavaScript. You can add overlays to the map (including markers and polylines) and display shadowed "info windows" just like Google Maps. : http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ Various hack projects ; http://www.gcensus.com/index.php (combines Google maps and U.S. census data), http://www.housingmaps.com (combines real estate listings with city maps from Google Maps), http://supergreg.hopto.org/google-yahoo/ (meshes traffic data with googlemaps), http://www.ahding.com/cheapgas/ (combines with gassbuddy.com's gas price database).

A9.com Maps did some amazing work integrating their local search photos into their maps. (still available?)

The Earth Imagery Source ; ResMap provides free online access to GIS-ready satellite data. : http://www.resmap.com/

Art Source International : selection of Replogle Globes, Rare and Antique Maps, Historical Maps, Antique
Atlases, Antique Prints, turn-of-the-century reproduction posters, historic photographs http://www.rare-maps.com/

New(?) MacroMedia eLearning development platform : http://www.macromedia.com/software/breeze/solutions/rapid_training/?sdid=BLSL
Breeze Rapid Training overview

Music Mapping : http://www.liveplasma.com/ (Flash or HTML-based mapping) :

THE GREAT IDEAS: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AND THE IDEAL OF LIBERAL EDUCATION : http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/excat/ideasint.html Creating a Great Curriculum

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) : Space-Time, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory [2] *Einstein's Reply to Criticisms, What is the Theory of Relativity, Why Socialism?, On the Method of Theoretical Physics, On the Theory of Relativity, Sidelights of Relativity

Rules of Wandering : http://www.westegg.com/wandering/

"In tomorrows enterprise the knowledge worker will be freed to release creative energy that will result in an era of enormous innovation and discovery, fulfilling the potential and promise of the mind." - Frederick Winslow Taylor from http://www.ideafinder.com/home.htm
"Don't try to do something cheaply that shouldn't be done at all." -
"When you can't convince them, confuse them." -

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"The structure of an outline has the virtue of making explicit the progress of an analysis. It gives the leading propositions due prominence, and exhibits the order and relation of the parts of a complicated argument." - Mortimer Adler : http://www.thegreatideas.org/25w/Aspen-Adler_1.pdf Outlining was so much in his blood that it had to seek further expression. And that it did. It resulted in what must be the two most monumental projects of outlining ever accomplished. The late 1940s were devoted to the construction of the Syntopicon, the ana-lytical index and guide to the Great Books of the Western World... An outline is in some respects like a map. Both present analytical and systematic plans of a large area. For this both require some principle for reducing a larger and more complicated area into a smaller and simpler plan...we need principles of organization and articulation that will reveal ways of entry into these vast fields of knowledge and guide us through them. The Syntopicon and Propaedia ('and GreatMap') supply us with such guides, plans and maps. By Otto Bird http://www.nd.edu/~pls/programma/plshistory/APPENDIX.htm

Mapping Our Thoughts to Words : http://www.searchengineguide.com/hotchkiss/2005/0627_gh1.html "I Love to Search but Words Get in the Way".

When designing a visualisation, the designer uses his or her set of mental schemata to elaborate a visual metaphor (see number 91 (http://www.infovis.net/printFicha.php?rec=revista&num=91&lang=2) ) that will be implemented into the visualisation. If the mental schemata of the receptor of the visualisation do not match in some way to those of the designer it's more than possible that the receptor won't understand the visualisation or will not be able to extract all of its possibilities. :http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=168&lang=2 It appears that the concept of [topographic] map and the mental schemata associated to it are very widespread. Maybe this is due to the ubiquity of maps, known since very ancient times and used throughout many centuries. According to others it's because they constitute a natural mataphor for the human beings that have evolved in a spatial environment that required a knowledge of terrain and space in order to survive. In the end, it seems that decoding a map, be it spatial or thematic, results quite natural for most of the human beings, requiring just very little training.

Project Spacecast is a aimed at the development and understanding of the methods available for visualizing non-spatial information spatially. Sara from Sackler http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~sara/html/research/spacecast/spacecast.html is developing a framework to investigate if and how particular spatial concepts like distance, region and scale can help in organizing information for more efficient access.

This map morphs the 2 candidates faces together based on their % of the votes in each state. (First use of Blogger photo upload, doesn't use Flickr in any way)

Signage & Wayfinding examples http://www.gplusa.com/index.cfm?PID=2897&PIDList=2894,2897&ServiceServiceID=3&ACT=Display&HasG=Y and Interactive portfolio.

Cartifact (http://cartifact.com/ ) developed http://map.cartifact.com/cartifact/dtla/dtla5.html (Flash) downtown LA interactive map site. Click from market to market, zoom in to see more detail, scroll around or click on a building to view details.

Visual Mapping of Portfolios : http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=deletvmap software; http://vmap.gold.ac.uk/vmap_help/index.html

Various graphics programs : http://www.software-facilities.com/graphics-software/

Mind Sports Olympiad : http://www.msoworld.com/history2000/jpg/19aug00.htm

Similar tetrahedron geometry : http://www.lotuslazuli.com/platonic_solids.htm#tetra to grid I'm developing (Metatron's Cube ; http://www.intent.com/sg/index.html )

A maze has many paths and is essentially a left-brain puzzle. A labyrinth is a right-brain intuition and creativity enhancer. : http://www.geomancy.org/labyrinths/index.html

"The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious." - John Sculley
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France
"Only those who can see the invisible,can accomplish the impossible!" - Patrick Snow
"Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream of things that never were and say why not." - John F. Kennedy
"A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams." - Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Editor of National Geographic (1903- 1954)
"The good cartographer is both a scientist and an artist. He must have a thorough knowledge of his subject and model, the Earth.... He must have the ability to generalize intelligently and to make a right selection of the features to show. These are represented by means of lines or colors; and the effective use of lines or colors requires more than knowledge of the subject - it requires artistic judgement." - Erwin Josephus Raisz (1893 - 1968)
"Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things."- Tobler's First Law of Geography

Google Maps Standalone Mode (display a Google Maps map view—with custom data—on your own web page) : http://stuff.rancidbacon.com/gmaps-standalone/

Showing and Hiding a DIV using CSS and Javascript : http://www.netlobo.com/div_hiding.html

MYTH: "Patents Protect Small Companies" REALITY: “Only DEEP DEEP Pockets = Patent Protection” : http://www.sacredcowdung.com/archives/2005/06/myth_patents_pr.html The courts are only an ally of the small company in theory — never in practice. .. as the CEO of the “little guy” you can’t over-play the hand — unless you have deep pocketed backers — meaning industry players — NOT investors —

"Clarity of mind is clarity of passion." - Blaise Pascal

dilettante: Originally, a lover of the arts, but now primarily a literary or artistic hanger-on, superficial or amateurish; a dabbler in an art or a field of knowledge: someone with a broad but shallow attachment to any field: an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge; showing frivolous or superficial interest.

1500+ Knowledge Management Reference sites : http://www.cbel.com/knowledge_management/?order=alpha including Knowledge Discovery Information Visualization, Knowledge Discovery Projects and Research, Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Creation Concept Mapping...

Grokker, a visual search tool that clusters related search results together in conceptually related categories, is now available in an online version, free of charge. The I Grok search tool from Grokker uses the Yahoo web database as its index, and clusters results into "maps" with topics represented as circles. Within each topic circle, which is labeled with a descriptive name, individual web page results are represented as squares. For most queries you'll see up to nine major topics, many of which have subtopics represented as smaller circles within them.
- has a couple of preview features that make it easy to learn more about web pages before actually clicking through to view them.
- clicking the box displays a thumbnail image of the web page with similar information in a preview pane with a link to open the web page in a new browser window.
Check out the Grokker forum and Blogs . For other visual search tools, scroll to the bottom of this SEW Blog post by Gary Price for links to a half-dozen other services.

An interactive exploration of the convergence of technology and theology for an in-depth (visual) study of the Gospels. : http://thirteensquares.com/gospelspectrum/index_flash_itp.html from text visualization blog at http://strange.mcmaster.ca/~grockwel/weblog/notes/cat_visualization.html .

(Unobtrusive) Javascript tutorials : http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/unobtrusivejavascript/

"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe." - Robert Service
"One of these days" is none of these days.

Visual Data Mining : http://www.ist-intermon.org/topics/datamining.html

Discussions on web site sitemaps : Sitemap Advice Sitemap Ideas Nielsen Site Map Usability Report

Demonstrative evidence (services) : http://www.visualexllc.com/

The Louvre; List of Visual Themes: http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/liste_approche_visuelle.jsp?bmLocale=en

Digital photo murals and backdrops : http://www.blueriverdigital.com/murals/murals_main.asp

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - Andre Gide
"About time : What if it was your downtime, your lounging-in-bed-too-long time, your walkabout time, and your blow-Friday-off time that made possible your greatest achievements? Would they still make you feel guilty? Or would you allow yourself to enjoy them? - The Universe