Saturday, April 28th 2007

Maps

Resources:

Category Date Link Notes
Map Textures Aug 4 Blue Marble NASA imagery at astounding amounts of resolution
Planetary Maps Otherwordly imagery and textures
Mobile Apps Aug 1 Offmaps Offline maps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, using OpenStreetMap
oMaps
Content Older Vectorial dotted maps
Web Older Google Maps
OpenStreetMap
Virtual Earth what? MSN Earth was taken?
Yahoo mapping API
Mappy European maps and itineraries
Map24 NAVTEQ‘s site, which used to employ an excellent Java applet (very useful on a 20” screen)
National Geographic Atlas Also uses NAVTEQ data
Lisbon City Hall Map Site Now includes an aerial photograph overlay. Sadly, it only works properly in Internet Explorer, which goes to show you how much they know about web sites.
Transparent New York a chronological map of sorts.
Desktop Apps Older Google Earth
NASA World Wind
Outlines Older carto:net SVG in cartography