Edit: I’ve been researching GIS teaching materials, went Google-crazy and came across these resources. Be warned that there may be more link-tastic posts like this one.
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This form will automatically draw your GPS data (or KML/KMZ file, or plain text data in CSV or tab-delimited format) overlaid upon street maps and satellite imagery in Google Maps.
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“Fuller started with the data for the spherical Earth surface. He projected the data from the sphere onto an icosahedron — the twenty- sided Platonic solid — and then unfolded that icosahedron out flat.”
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“The maps presented on this website are equal area cartograms, otherwise known as density-equalising maps. The cartogram re-sizes each territory according to the variable being mapped.”
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“An interactive data visualization tool developed by the Office of Environmental Information to investigate multivariate environmental-health-demographic relationships in data using interactive, dynamic choropleth maps. Such a tool can be used to explore environmental indicators spatially and to allow one to interact with the data by varying the multi-dimensional components of the indicator, or index, and see the map change dynamically in real-time.”
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” … a thematic map in which areas are shaded or patterned in proportion to the measurement of the statistical variable being displayed on the map”
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The General Land Office (proto-BLM) was quite busy in Ohio.
Way TMI!
Really. I just lifted the whole post and gmailed it go myself to make sure I had it somewhere safe in da’sky!
I am such a freak for all of this, particularly Fuller. I live 9 feet from the 90th Meridian… on’da back hand path.
Hahahahaha
Thanks, Maitri.
Hey, Maitri, s’up?
Here is a new linkeroo I found for your list of viewing resources. This is satellite: http://spie.org/x35463.xml?highlight=x2420&ArticleID=x35463
Thanks youz