It seems like there can be a map for any kind of fiction. Harry Potter has his marauder’s map, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings have a map, and so on. While I have not watched Game of Thrones I like this interactive map, which even have a spoilers… Continue reading

Today I will write about a tool I have used to make the Schnappi tracker map (more info in this post). And that is the timemap javascript library. it is a library to make a map with a timeline. When the timeline is moved, the events on the timeline will… Continue reading

Today I want to write about places to find data for your GIS work. The nice thing about the GIS courses I have taken was that I was given the necessary datas to do the exercise work. But when you want to do things on your own, for fun, for… Continue reading

Here are some useful tools for working with maps or GPS: BatchGeo is a website that can generate a map from a list of places in a spreadsheet. This data can then also be exported as a KML file for use in web maps or Google Earth. I used this… Continue reading

I am a big fan of the beautiful map made by Tolkien for The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. So when I looked online for a map I stumbled upon a huge and amazing hand-drawn version made by Adam Savage (the host of Mythbusters). He wrote that he used… Continue reading

Map of McDonalds restaurants – image  used under a creative commons license © Copyright Sasi Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan). Maybe you have seen this kind of map before? Worldmapper has lots of this maps where the area of each country is modified according to… Continue reading

Then we’re half way to Christmas of the days in December. Today I will share something that most probably have seen already, and that is the articles with “40 maps that… ” which were popular earlier this year. I’m happy for that, since it means that more people will learn… Continue reading

For today’s post I thought I could make a list of the map-themed XKCD comics (one of my favourite webcomics). As for all XKCD comics, don’t forget to read the mouse-over text, which is always fun. Randall Munroe, the creator of XKCD have made two maps of online communities, one… Continue reading

At carbonmap.org, you can see CO2 emissions from oil, coal and gas extraction, from fossil fuel use and the carbon footprint of all goods and services consumed. You  can also see which countries are most vulnerable. Continue reading

Maybe you have played an online game called Desktop tower defense? It’s a game where you have to protect your desktop from loads of “creeps” that try to get over your table. If you have then you might also like MapsTD, a game where you have to protect a place… Continue reading