Multimedia Visualization and Interactive Systems – Drawing Board ... (Powerpoint format or HTML)

Visualising Uncertainty in Spatially-Referenced Attribute Data: http://www.geocomputation.org/2003/Papers/Kardos_Paper.pdf (or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9671.2005.00203.x ) [PDF] Research Article

The 100 Angriest Cities in the America
Via http://catholicgauze.blogspot.com/2006/09/100-angriest-cities-in-america.html

Map of Los Angeles : http://www.californios.us/mora/la1942sm.jpg view zoomable and huge (4.6 MB) by Jo Mora 1942 . Via http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/2006/08/los_angeles_mapped_jo_mora.phtml

Eclectic map link collection : http://www.wowblog.co.uk/?cat=27

Map Sound Effects on mouse roll-over (useful or irritating?) of sites linked to this blog (Korean translation). Via http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000333.html

Chicago Manual of Style: www.chicagomanualofstyle.org (The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers) is now available online.

International Boundaries Study Special : http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBSSpecial120167.pdf and Map : http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/maps/bd1.html

Check Your Google Results in Any Country; go to http://oy-oy.eu/google/world/ and then select the locations you want to compare side by side. Via http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006211.html

Search (map visualization) results : http://images.google.com/images?q=map+visualization&ndsp=20&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&start=0&sa=N

United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine : http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/vMaps Via http://israel.oymap.com/maps.html

39 Hexagon Illustrations and Clipart : http://www.fotosearch.com/illustration/hexagon.html

Micro Book Publishing Example : http://www.cafepress.com/blessisrael.21973145 (one off)

"We think in generalities, but we live in detail." - Alfred North Whitehead
"Ironically, one of the phrases most likely to indicate opinion is "It is a fact that ..."" - Claire Cardie, Cornell professor of computer science
"What do you think you are, the center of the universe?" - Copernicus' Mother
"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'Circles'
"Sheesh! My doctor told me I should take my viagra with my daily iron supplement pills... now I always end up pointing north!" - Dear Diary

Discretization of spatial objects : http://www.mif.vu.lt/cs2/courses/erdvis8.pdf [PDF] Mosaics, Tessellations and Lattices View as HTML

TLabel : http://gmaps.tommangan.us/tlabel2.html (A Google Maps API Extension) allows you to embed any DOM object inside Google Maps. A TLabel is only as large as it needs to be, and unlike the infoWindow, you can customize the look to your heart's content (it's especially useful if you need to show an infoWindow but don't have enough content to fill it).

Is the end near for the file/folder metaphor? : http://nooface.net/article.pl?sid=06/02/28/0147225 to be replaced with something like; http://nooface.net/article.pl?sid=06/06/05/231251&mode=thread

THREE DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE PICTORIAL MAPS : http://txspace.tamu.edu/bitstream/1969.1/1571/1/etd-tamu-2004C-VIZA-Naz.pdf#search=%22sketch%20and%20toon%20distort%20map%22 PDF - HTML-Version

MapGame : http://www.rethinkingschools.org/just_fun/games/mapgame.html

IsrealMaps : http://www.templebuilders.com/Index_Maps.php (different perspectives). God Speaks To The West Bank : http://www.trumpetsounds.com/westbank.html (apparently saying) "The conflict over this land becomes a topic of discussion among many other nations, to the extent that they think they should decide the outcome (v. 3) "

"Editorial: Cartographic Journals— A Look Back and Prospects for the Future" [Access article in HTML] [Access article in PDF] Via 'Coordinates' : http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/coordinates/contents.htm an online serial publication.

(Creative Commons) Sampling Deed : http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/ grants remix permission - it gives anyone "out there" freedom to mash-up or transform your work both for commercial and noncommercial purposes. It also grants people the freedom to perform, distribute, or copy the whole work in a noncommercial context.

John Krygier : http://confluxfestival.org/artists.php?artistid=201 is a renegade cartographer. (Conflux 2006: This Revolution Will Be Mapped ; UnMaking Maps: ParaCartographic Experiments presentation by http://go.owu.edu/~jbkrygie/) Via http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/metropolis/conflux-2006-this-revolution-will-be-mapped-201390.php

Really says more about BlogSpot than this one : http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=www.infotech.com.tr&url=http://greatmap.blogspot.com/

Why Make Collage : http://www.frankolsonproject.org/upload/WhyMakeCollage.pdf

Cyprus : http://www.everyculture.com/Cr-Ga/Cyprus.html Greek Cypriots officially started to talk of "one people" who should live in one state, while Turkish Cypriots officially spoke of "two peoples" or "two nations" which should live separately.

"There is a problem with montage in that you see it everywhere now because of digital technology. There is so much transformed imagery around that people accept constructed images without questioning their meaning." - Peter Kennard, artist
"That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time." - John Stuart Mill
"A blocked path also offers guidance." - Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
" Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"We will either find a way, or make one." - Hannibal

worldKit : http://worldkit.org/ is an easy to use and flexible mapping application for the Web. Light weight GIS. It's a SWF based app, configured by XML, data fed by RSS. Stand-alone use or integration in larger projects. Examples page for links to live uses.

Information Visualization : http://www.infovis.net/index.php?lang=2 is an irregularly published e-zine that discusses information visualization topics of interest to cartographers (all 183 issues of the e-zine are available). Via http://ccablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/information-visualization.html

Great Wall aerial photos : http://citi.sdsu.edu/gallery/projects/greatwall/photoalbum_view

The ultimate "Where's Waldo" type picture : http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm (2.5 Gigapixel Image) Via http://illusionsetc.blogspot.com/2005/01/hidden-in-plain-sight.html

Mind Mapping : http://www.blinklist.com/tag/Mind%20Mapping/ user submitted websites and related content chosen and rated by contributors from http://www.blinklist.com/

Sarajevo Survival Map : http://www.famainternational.com/images/map/survivalmap.jpg Via http://www.famainternational.com/map/map-f.htm

Maps in Literature : http://www.stanfords.co.uk/newsletter/current/archive/september_letter/htm/maps-in-literature.htm#conan_doyle

Jerusalem coordinates in GoogleMap.

Historical German (& Prussian) Maps : http://members.cox.net/hessen/hesse.htm

Early Modern Cartographic Resources : http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/emls/04-2/sanfinte.htm on the World Wide Web

So You Want A Transparent GIF : http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/web_graphics/article.php/3480011

Fauvism : http://www.sanderhome.com/Fauves/ an excellent resource on The Wild Beasts of Early 20th Century Art.

Sir Peter Blake, the arch exponent of the genre, defined collage as "anything where something is attached to something else". Via http://colinrobinson.com/collage.html

Walking Meditaion : http://www.egreenway.com/meditation/walk.htm
Contemplative or Spiritual Walking Practices (Labyrinth Walking, Pilgrimages, Quests)

Legendary and Historical Jesters : http://www.thenoodlebowl.com/jesters/pages/legreal.html Imagery

"Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author
"Don't be so humble. You're not that great." - Golda Meir
"Go ahead and push your built-in 'happiness-now button' (since we never could get the 'do-over button' to work)." - TU
"The whole of life lies in the verb seeing." - Teilhard De Chardin, Catholic philosopher
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up." - Oliver W. Holmes
"He's no failure. He's not dead yet." - William Lloyd George Via http://www.gocreate.com/quotamaze/qpol.htm#hear

Movement Patterns : http://moooonriver.spaces.live.com/?partqs=cat%3DMaps&_c11_blogpart_blogpart=blogview&_c=blogpart (Brian Collier) Human Life as a Series of Lines (map-portraits)

ADVANTAGES OF THE VORONOI SPATIAL MODEL : http://www.voronoi.com/pdfs/1990-1994/Advantages_of_the_Voronoi_spatial_model.pdf# (PDF) - View as HTML

Depth Of Field Generator PRO : http://www.richardrosenman.com/media/software/dof/dof.pdf#search=%22hexagonal%20map%20photoshop%22 (PDF) View as HTML

DEFINITION OF NEOGEOGRAPHY : http://platial.typepad.com/news/2006/05/what_is_neogeog.html Via http://placekraft.blogspot.com/2006/04/neogeography-defined.html

German ReggaeMap : http://reggaemap.re.funpic.de/ Via http://www.wowblog.co.uk/

A visual communicator's dream library : http://visualcongruence.blogspot.com/2006/04/visual-communicators-dream-library.html (books on visual communication and information design).

What Are Microformats (And Why They Make Your Information Easier To Find) : http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/09/20/what_are_microformats_and_why.htm Via http://newsletters.searchenginewatch.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=auxa,1j5t,52v,gnpt,efgs,3pfv,21cb

Index of past 'InfoViz' e-zine issues : http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=0〈=2#2006

A Few Free Fonts : http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/archives/20060920_a_few_free_fonts.phtml

What does Web 2.0 mean for ODR? (Online Dispute Resolution) : http://ict4peace.wordpress.com/2006/06/02/what-does-web-20-mean-for-odr/ Via http://ict4peace.wordpress.com/tag/online-dispute-resolution-odr/

Phyllis Pearsall, Map Designer (1906-1996) : http://www.designmuseumshop.net/design/phyllis-pearsall A-Z Map Company

About Vermeer Art : Pronouncing Blame on the Israel Lobby : discussed at http://rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=164406&D=2006-08-29&SO=&HC=2

Posts tagged Maps per day for the last 30 days. Get your own chart!

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
"Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves." - Albert Camus
“Symbols grow. They come into being by development out of other signs, particularly from icons, or from mixed signs partaking of the nature of icons and symbols... So it is only out of symbols that a new symbol can grow. Omne symbolum de symbolo.”- C.S. Pierce “The Icon, Index, and Symbol,” c. 1895 / 1932
"There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less. " - Kurt Hahn (1886 - 1974), Founder of Outward Bound (http://www.kurthahn.org) "Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold." - Herbert Spencer
"The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious." - Heraclitus
Create Your Own Quote

Dynamically Binding Image to Text for Information Communication : http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/IV.2004.1320219 (U$19)

International Cartographic Association : http://www.icaci.org/

Scandal Map : http://www.threetwoone.org/diagrams/wallstreetscandals.gif

GIS & Map news : http://gismap.geospatial-online.com/gssgismap/article/articleList.jsp?&numberOfDays=%20&categoryId=37563

IsraelStine Online Mapping systems : http://www.ynetcenter.co.il/map/map.asp and http://www.atlasct.com/Israel/Homeless/ Also, what is the green(?) line in this map? :http://map.walla.co.il/ts.cgi All via http://israel-forum.org/showthread.php?t=9407

Beyond Win/Win : http://www.smartsettle.com/more/content.php?beyond.html

Index of Medieval Images : http://digital.library.ucla.edu/immi/ Via http://mrsun.us/2006/09/eye-candy.html

Hex Optical Illusion : http://illusionsetc.blogspot.com/2006/08/illusory-motion-optical-illusion.html

The Real Palestine : http://muqata.blogspot.com/2006/09/real-palestine-google-lets-you.html Google Lets You Excavate History

Group Shot : http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=1481 lets you build a new group photo using the best parts of other, flawed photos of the same group.

Gmail Tips : http://www.gmailtips.com/ Via http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/archives/20060919_gmail_tips.phtml

Example of creative ideas log : http://www.ironicsans.com/ideas/

"If one wants integretity of content there is only live preformance." Via http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/HOME_Arts.html (that are bound to concrete images at the last second depending on who is paying and who is watching).

"Sometimes the best way to convince someone he is wrong is to let him have his way." - Nashville Banner
"Crowding a life does not always enrich it." - Unknown
"That which opposes produces a benefit." - Heraclitus
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." - Art Linkletter
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." - Seneca

Methods and Tools for the Visualization and Navigation of Graphs : http://staff.science.uva.nl/~marshall/publications/Thesis.pdf#search=%22%22Incremental%20Exploration%20and%20Navigation%22%22 [PDF]

Updated http://www.k-web.org/ website and blog (finally they're partnering with Thebrain.com to do a more complete version of K-web).

Mindmapping in 8 Easy Steps : http://www.thinksmart.com/mission/workout/mindmapping_intro.html
Via : http://http://mediationblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/mind-mapping-offers-brainstorming-tool.html

Highway Route Markers : http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~jlin/signs/ past and present, from around the world.
Isometric Pixel Art : http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2006/09/isometric-pixel-art-simulating-in.html - Simulating in SketchUp Tutorial

Map of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/default.asp) has been named joint-winner of the British Cartographic Society's Ordnance Survey MasterMap 'Better Mapping' award. Via http://geocarta.blogspot.com/

Innovative 'molecular' site map ": http://www.molecularsynergy.org/# (but no click throughs?)

Tile-based output of huge raster images : http://workshop.evolutionzone.com/2006/08/31/tile-based-output-of-huge-raster-images/

Interesting search : http://www.google.com/search?q=Artists+who+use+maps&hl=en&lr=&start=0&sa=N by Craft Alliance (Plano).

The School of Geography and Environmental Science (SGES), home of one of this blog's most faithful readers : http://www.sges.auckland.ac.nz/

http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/zionism/whatis.cfm explains why traditional Jews do not support Zionism (the return to the land called "Israel") and why the Zionist idealogy is totally contrary to traditional Jewish law and beliefs and the teachings of the Holy Torah. Interesting inclusion of 57 Against Us comments section.

The distinction between groups and networks : http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?author=4244 including Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts about what it's like to be "a lone dissenter'.

Make Eyes (or Anything) in Pictures Follow You Round The Room : http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2004/11/hack_101_make_eyes_.html

“I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.”- Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.” - Leonardo da Vinci Via http://www.famousquotes.com/search.php?search=da%20Vinci&field=LastName&paint=0
"Neither the historian nor the cartographer can ever reproduce the reality they are trying to communicate to the reader of books or maps; they can but give a plan ..." - Crane Brinton
"You can't test courage cautiously." - Annie Dillard
"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can." - Sydney Smith
"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable." - Goethe
“We all agree that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough.”- Niels Henrik David Bohr

Comparison of Different Grid Abstractions for Pathfinding on Maps : http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~games/pathfind/publications/ijcai2003.ps or View as Text

Learning Theories: The Philosophical Family Tree : http://learningspaces.org/images/stahl_large.gif Via http://ipseity.blogsome.com/2006/09/03/learning-theories-the-philosophical-family-tree/

Knowledge Map of the Hidden Words : http://wilmetteinstitute.org/projects/wordsmap.index.html

Maps of Israeli Settlements in the West Bank, Gaza and Golan Heights : http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/israel.html

GoogleEarth finds : http://explorer.altopix.com/

Google Maps API : http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API Discussion Group

PODZINGER : http://www.podzinger.com/ is a search engine that can help you to search for the content that is found within audio and video.

Israel & Palestine – old roads, new maps : http://www.opendemocracy.net/forums/thread.jspa?forumID=75&threadID=46393&messageID=83600 - Discussion forum

101 Ways To Brew Up a Great Idea : http://www.mpdailyfix.com/2006/09/101_ways_to_brew_up_a_great_id.html Via : http://www.innovationtools.com/Weblog/innovationblog-detail.asp?ArticleID=960

An anti-DRM (Digital Rights Management) picture book for kids! (Free PDF downloads: English ) See http://dustrunners.blogspot.com/2006/07/pig-and-box.html (interesting story about a story). Via http://www.downes.ca/files/sydney20062.ppt

Top 10 Blog Engines : http://www.earningblog.com/2006/09/15/top-10-blog-engines/

KNAT:
No need to get upstressed. I'm the mapographer here.
Knat consults the map with an inflated sense of self-importance.
We're here, and there's a small island just over...
He looks in direction, searching for the island. He looks in another direction.
'Cording to our map, there's a small island just by...
He looks in yet another direction and is beginning to lose face...and hope.
They don't make maps like they used to.
He rolls the map into a ball and tosses it overboard. He stands on the ship's railing, desperate to find the island, calling out to it as if it was a lost animal, clicking his tongue and extending his hand.
Here, island, island. C'mon. Come to Daddy

"Making Comics" on the road : http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/20/scott_mccloud_takes_.html book is a tutorial for budding comic-book creators, with exercises and patient, lucid and funny instruction, "just the kind of thing that made Understanding Comics into the best book on media I've ever read." Link

Past MacArthur Foundation geniuses : http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-genius-mmg,0,3548292.gallery

"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"...in addition to other people looking at what I was doing and saying, `Is he out of his mind?' I occasionally wondered that myself." - Eric Lander, Geneticist
"The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life." - Billy Graham
"Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?" - Robert D. Ballard
"I want to look at life in the available light." - Unknown Via http://dailywisdom.gospelcom.net/dw_static/quotesall.html
"What's it like being married to a genius?' She said, `I don't know. I'll ask my husband.'" - Thomas L. Daniel