http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/22/nyregion/20080822_LASTSTOP_FEATURE.html
For those subway riders who get off before the last stop — almost everyone — the end is just a sign on the train. What's there, anyway? It turns out there is often mystery, lonesomeness and beauty.
http://www.textmap.com
"What is TextMap? TextMap tracks references to people, places, and things appearing in news text, so as to identify meaningful relationships between them. TextMap monitors the state of the world by analyzing both the temporal and spatial distribution of these entities. We currently analyze over 1000 domestic and international news ...
http://earth.google.com/
"The New York Times offers geo-coded news, and Google Earth offers the platform for reading that news in a 3D browser. This is the first time we've endeavored to show news updated in real time, and we're very excited to work with this first-class publication to bring you the latest ...
http://geosearch.metacarta.com/
"Identify and leverage the geographic references in content.
Geosearch: Find all content, data, and information about a place in a single view
Geotagging: Analyze content to identify geographic references; use geotagged content in other applications
MetaCarta puts your data on any map: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, ESRI - virtually any map ...
City of Nanaimo's fire rescue incidents: http://www.nanaimo.ca/fire_rescue_incidents/daily_calls.aspx
City of Nanaimo's interactive mapping site: http://www.nanaimo.ca/residents/index_inside.asp?id=117&collection=19
City of Nanaimo's downloadable city map data: http://earth.nanaimo.ca/data.html
http://www.nhpr.org/node/15156
"Granite Staters will soon be voting and attending town meetings to decide on key issues in their communities. This interactive map is a new way to look at town meetings in your community and those across the state."
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/25/science/earth/20080225_COAST_GRAPHIC.html
"Scientists are building the first worldwide portrait of human impact on the world’s oceans."
http://www.lasvegassun.com/guides/flightdelays/
"This interactive map shows how frequently individual direct flights were delayed by 15 minutes or more when traveling to and from McCarran International Airport in 2007."
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/15/world/middleeast/20080216_YOUTH_GRAPHIC.html
"People aged 15 to 29 make up more than 25 percent of the population in much of the Middle East and North Africa, and many are unemployed and dissatisfied."
http://www.addictinggames.com/newsgames.html
Scribble States: Pencils Down, People!
Indecision 08: Border Security: Nail Immigrants Both Ways!
50 States: New, improved and embeddable!
Paris Oh Paris: Put Some Meat on Her Bones!
"The MDG Monitor shows how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). With the 2015 target date fast approaching, it is more important than ever to understand where the goals are on track, and where additional efforts and support are needed, both globally and ...
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/10/automobiles/20080210_GREATRACE_MAP.html
"The route of the round-the-world race of 1908 was changed while the event was in progress ... A rerunning of the race ... will take a largely different path."
YourStreet: "YourStreet transforms the way you experience local news by indexing and mapping thousands of articles, blogs, and conversations down to the street level."
EveryBlock: "A news feed for your block"
Flickr: "Explore everyone's photos on a map"
U.S. Casualties (Online NewsHour): "Iraq in Transition | U.S. Casualties | Searchable database"
Latest Earthquakes in ...
From the International Monetary Fund: "The IMF Data Mapper, a new interactive data visualization tool on the IMF's website, allows web users to select data across countries, regions, and groups at the click of a mouse."More information about this tool here.
Msnbc.com Bridge Tracker
"Check the safety of bridges you cross: This map shows the condition and inspection dates for more than 100,000 bridges in the U.S. that are crossed by at least 10,000 vehicles per day. The records come from the latest National Bridge Inventory, as analyzed by msnbc.com."
