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Interactive maps link everything from music to food Via Tocquigny 
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January 23, 12:01 PM
Interactive maps can be a a great way of displaying useful information in an engaging and attractive way by inviting the user to take action. With huge developments in GEO tagging over the last decade, the advent of Google Maps APIs and the introduction of Fusion tables, more and more websites are taking advantage of these comprehensive tools to showcase their data. We take a look at some interesting uses of these maps in 2013. Delete the scoop?
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20 Google Tools for Today’s Classrooms Body By Laura Turner Google continues to provide a wealth of useful easy-to-use tools that can be used well in the classroom. Some of these are newer and some have been around for a while. All of these tools, as well as additional tools can be found at Google Options. 1. Google Sky - http://www.google.com/sky
2. Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en
3. Google News - http://news.google.com
4. Google Image Swirl - http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com 5. Google Video - http://video.google.co.uk
6. Google Books - http://books.google.com/books
7. Google Docs – http://docs.google.com 8. Google Trends - http://www.google.com/trends ; 9. Google Insights http://www.google.com/insights/search
10. Google Art Project - http://www.googleartproject.com
11. Google Swifty (beta) http://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy 12. Google Earth - http://earth.google.com 13. Google Building Maker - http://sketchup.google.com/3dwh/buildingmaker.html 14. Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader/view/#overview-page 15. Google Sites - https://sites.google.com 16. Google Talk http://www.google.com/talk
17. Google Alerts - http://www.google.com/alerts
18. Google Finance http://www.google.com/finance
19. Google Translate http://translate.google.com/?hl=en#
20. Google for Educators - http://www.google.com/educators/index.html
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Reddit user IamNorris came up with a pretty ingenious use of Google Maps to instantly identify where poor people and rich people live in a region. His clever trick — which looks at California's Bay Area — is on the top of ...
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Google Earth Blog (blog) Via Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist
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This looks great, imagine students printing out their own landscapes. 
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March 13, 11:43 AM
New website called The Terrainator lets you select your favourite geographical features and get 'em 3D printed. Check it out. Click above or go directly to the site: http://terrainator.com/ Delete the scoop?
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Another great bunch of resources to help get you inspired to use these awesome tools. Delete the scoop?
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Living vicariously just got a bit more exciting. Google Maps had added some of the most famous (and highest) mountains in the world to Street View.
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They've been under the ocean, under ground, inside; now we go up. Delete the scoop?
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Use our tools to explore the world, learn about human and physical patterns, and make your own maps. Via David Green Delete the scoop?
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There's good news for any iOS users still missing their beloved Google Maps app. Delete the scoop?
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This interactive map of coastal Massachusetts and Rhode Island shows some basic flooding data including: 1) where are the flood warnings (essential the entire coastline), 2) how high the storm surge is, and 3) how high the waves are.
Tags: Rhode Island, water, disasters, geospatial. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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TED Talks In this short talk, TED Fellow Sarah Parcak introduces the field of "space archeology" -- using satellite images to search for clues to the lost sites of past civilizations.
The uses of geospatial technologies is NOT limited to studying geography, but it is the bedrock of many research projects that involve spatial thinking (as demonstrated in this TED talk). Geographic principles and geographers can be very important members of interdisciplinary teams.
Tags: spatial, remote sensing, geospatial, TED, MiddleEast, historical. Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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The best entry point to spatial technologies is overhead transparencies or tracing paper. Via Josh Kettell Delete the scoop?
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In the Mid-Morning Plenary Session of the ESRI User Conference, it was apparent that students can learn in meaningful ways by applying GIS to real-world situations.
Tags: GIS, edtech, GeographyEducation. Via Seth Dixon, Claire Jones Delete the scoop?
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Two Maps for History Class. Historypin is a photo sharing site that uses Google Maps to display collections of historical photos. Historypin offers several projects and tours that users can engage with as well as specific ... Delete the scoop?
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On the right is a map view to show the current location of the satellite, with an embedded Google Earth window below to the view from the satellite. On the left is a very innovative feature that allows you to choose your location ...
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I love creating my own maps through Google Maps (MyMaps). Here is my favorite local canyoneering spot, Eaton Canyon. I have implemented a few assignments where my students create a map as a projec... Delete the scoop?
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Maps & Earth - Resources for using Google in the Classroom on iGeneration - 21st Century Education curated by Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa) (RT @TDOttawa: Maps & Earth - Resources for using Google in the Classroom - Delete the scoop?
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Where will the cuts fall between the last election in 2010 and 2015?
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I can't wait to see the Queensland version! Delete the scoop?
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March 3, 12:03 PM
Mapas poco comunes, poco útiles, aunque curiosos. Delete the scoop?
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The Vons grocery store two miles from my home in Los Angeles, California sells 12 cans of Coca-Cola for $6.59 — 54 cents each. The tool chai…
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"Freedom House has been at the forefront in monitoring threats to media independence since 1980. A free press plays a key role in sustaining and monitoring a healthy democracy, as well as in contributing to greater accountability, good government, and economic development. Most importantly, restrictions on media are often an early indicator that governments intend to assault other democratic institutions."
This interactive map shows some intriguing spatial patterns about the freedom of press internationally. What other patterns to you see in matching up with the most free presses in the world (in green)? How does a free (or not free press) influence the cultural and political values of a country? Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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Explorers have used Google's satellite technology and services to discover wonders around the world that have never before been touched by science. Via juanchosierrar Delete the scoop?
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The Brazilian government's geographic department (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística-roughly equivalent to the U.S. Census Bureau) has compiled an fantastic interactive world factbook (available in English and Spanish as well as Portuguese). The ease of navigation allows the user to conduct a specific search of simply explore demographic, economic, environmental and development data on any country in the world.
Tags: population, worldwide, statistics, mapping, zbestofzbest. Via Seth Dixon 
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October 24, 2012 10:23 AM
The world, here, is literally at your fingertips. It is a simple way for anyone to locate a multitude of data about any given place around the world. It is another way that brings the whole world that much closer in this technological era.
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One of a number of large wildfires that have affected northern California in 2012, the Chips fire burned more than 75,000 acres by the time firefighters had contained it.
2012 is going to go down as the year in United States history as the year with the most acrec burned in a single year (statistics only go back to 1960). The two featured images were taken earlier this month to display a Northern California wildfire; both with the same spatial resolution and acquired for the same instrument (Advanced Land Imager on EO-1 satellite), yet they are quite distinct. One shows an aerial photograph, displaying exactly what standard visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (showing us what our eyes would normally see). The other image displays a false color (near infrared) image.
Questions to ponder: what advantages does each image have for analyzing the fire damage? Drawbacks? How does the data from both images work together to create a more complete picture of the situation?
Tags: remote sensing, images, environment, land use, disasters, biogeography. Via Seth Dixon 
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These images are very similar and different one you can see the smoke but you cant really see much of the damage on the land. where as the infrared image shows the areas that have been damaged but also makes the areas more easily able to depict the different features.
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September 17, 2012 10:22 AM
The first image displays a better visual of exactly where the fire damaged the land, the second image doesn't provide a clear visual to someone, the land effected is foggy. If I was going to visit this specific area in Northern California I would much rather use the first aerial image.
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September 17, 2012 10:31 AM
The first image gives a good spatial shot of where the exact hot spots are located that cannot be seen by the naked eye. The second photo will give you a spatial view of what you can actually see. Both are needed to put out the hot spot because they each will provide two different solutions to stop the burning acres.
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For current GIS software products to support the teaching and learning of spatial thinking in the K-12 context, they must have the capacity to (I) spatialize data sets by providing spatial data structures and coding systems for ... Via Geocrusader80 Delete the scoop?
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