MAPS

USEFUL REFERENCES :

Fun earth/science links that are updated regularly:
Earth's present day and night
Earth Science Picture of the Day
Astronomy Picture of the Day
The MODIS Image of the Day
NASA's Earth Obsevatory, with a new image every day
Kilauea (Hawaii) Volcano Update
Recent (i.e. today and last few days) Earthquakes

Science news links that are updated regularly:
Geotimes
Science Daily
Science News Online
The BBC's Science News page
The New York Times's Science News page and Earth-Science News page
AAAS's Eurekalert Science News page
The National Science Foundation's press releases
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Elsevier's Virtual Journal of Geobiology

Meteorlogical and astronomical links that are updated regularly:
The Weather Underground
World-Wide Satellite Weather Images
Current Watches, Warnings, & Advisories and Specific Forecasts from NOAA's Storm Prediction Center
CMB Sea-Surface Temperature map
The Sky-Watcher's Diary and Heavens Above
International Space Station Sightings

Fun image-rich earth/science links:
Severe Weather
German Halo Workgroup's Images of Atmospheric Light Phenomena
NOAA's Photo Library from the National Weather Service
Microsoft's Terraserver of U.S. aerial photography
The European Space Agency's new (March 02) Envisat environmental satellite
NASA's Earth from Space Image Library
NASA's ASTER Remote Sensing Image Gallery
NASA's student-driven Earthkam Image Library
The Earthrise Collection of Images from the Space Shuttle
The Geological Survey of Canada's collection of photos of Canadian Landscapes
The LANDSAT Image Gallery
Louis J. Maher Jr.'s collection of aerial photographs of US geologic features
The Color Landform Atlas of the United States
Chris Scotese's PALEOMAP Project
NASA's Images of Oceanography from the Space Shuttle
The Hubble Space Telescope Gallery of Images
Views of the Solar System
Convenient map sources:
US locations at various scales
A US Topographic and Geologic Map
US State Geologic Maps
UK locations at various scales

CARTOGRAMSCartogram Central
See Congressional districts in this way: http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/Cartogram_Central/images/districts/congressional_districts.jpg

Borden D. Dent in the fourth edition of his book "Cartography Thematic Map Design" begins his chapter on cartograms this way:

"Erwin Raisz called cartograms 'diagrammatic maps.' Today they might be called cartograms, value-by-area maps, anamorphated images or simply spatial transformations. Whatever their name, cartograms are unique representations of geographical space. Examined more closely, the value-by-area mapping technique encodes the mapped data in a simple and efficient manner with no data generalization or loss of detail."

Election 2000 maps
A different election map...
Create your own election scenario!
kw: GLIF, maps, data