For my second to last calendar post I have another book recommendation. It is the book “The Making of a Land: Geology of Norway”. This is a big book with the geological history of Norway, and it tells well how the landscape has been formed over time. While that may… Continue reading
Today’s post is more of a project for the holidays or a weekend. And that is learning to use and edit KML files. KML stands for Keyhole Markup Language, and is a format for geographical information used by Google Maps and Google Earth. ArcGis and QGIS also support and can… Continue reading
I have written about the TeleGeography telecom maps before, but I think they deserve a repost this year for their 2015 Submarine Cable Map. It is a beautiful Mercator / old-style map with a lot of information, and some fun elements like the sea creatures. Their maps are realeased with… Continue reading
An old map of Bruges in Belgium. Christmas day is rapidly getting closer, and I still have some presents to finish and an apartment to clean up. If you’re still looking for a gift that can be hung on a wall, then why not an old map? Then all you… Continue reading
Back in 2013 The Norwegian National Mapping Authority released a lot of its geographical data in the hope that citiens and companies could use it for new services that could benefit a lot of people. I have downloaded and used some of their data and find it great that it… Continue reading
Living, eating and shopping green and ecological is not always easy, but the Ecomaps website created by the association International Young Naturefriends can maybe help you with that. Ecomaps is a European mapping service and database, showing the most sustainable, ecological and healthiest options in a certain location, area or… Continue reading
Do all roads lead to Rome? That’s what some designers wanted to find out, so they looked at all the roads in Europe to calculate which roads actually go to Rome. They have also created other maps, like the roads to all ten Romes in the US, and the shortest… Continue reading
I’m a Star Wars fan, so today is a big day for me since I will finally get to see the new Star Wars movie. Something that is interesting is that the previous six movies has been shot at locations all over the world. For instance the “Battle of Hoth… Continue reading
XKCD is one of favourite webcomics, and they have made several good comics about maps. I made a list of them in my last Christmas calendar. A newer map from XKCD is this upside-down map where every continent and island have been rotated 180 degrees. For Norway that means a… Continue reading
Another fun tool is one that can end discussions about where you would end up if you dug straight down through the earth. One would then end up at the antipodes, the place on earth diametrically opposite to it. The antipodes map show exactly this. From most places one would… Continue reading
