The Map Room has a great example the beauty possible in modern cartography, in the form of the Reykjavík Center Map. The online map is a nod toward the hand-drawn maps of yore, and features a beautifully illustrated isometric projection of Iceland’s capital.
The Google Earth Blog shows us a fantastic infographic created by Karl Tate over at OurAmazingPlanet that takes us from the top of the atmosphere down to the very depths of the Mariana Trench. It’s a great graphic that really has to be seen full-size.
GIS Lounge point us toward a great online resource for GIS users, with the online archive of Joseph K Berry’s Beyond Mapping column in GeoWorld Magazine now live. The column spans back to 1989, so gives a great history of the field. Not all articles are online uts yet, but they’re working toward it.
Vector One has a post outlining how geospatial technologies are impacting the agriculture industry. In fact, Position will be featuring just such a topic in our December/January issue, so if this is a topic you’re involved in, I’d love to hear from you.
Google Maps Mania has a post showing a very clever use of Google Maps and scrolling backgrounds over at the Tourism New Zealand site. It’s the kind of site you have to visit to really appreciate (I guess a bit like NZ itself), so I recommend you slide your way over there for a gander.
‘sproke has a post entitled ‘Summarizing why WMS is Dead’. It may be a good resource if you need to convince someone that it’s time to upgrade their web mapping presence, as it includes a video of the talk that it is summarising.
A second post from Google Maps Mania this week shows the way that Google Maps has been integrated into art, including a song by comedian Tim Minchin (mind the occasional cuss word).
