By juhrovic on 2/25/2009 11:01 AM

Earth Pulse, from National Geographic,  is a good visual for explaining some of the current issues and trends facing our world. In addition to maps and imagery, there is some basic descriptive text.

The three trends focues on

• The Human Condition-looking at population, quallity of life, human impact, and food and water
• Our Relationship to nature- looking at ecosystems and conservation, and energy and carbon.
• Our connected world trends- exploring tecnology, and globalization

It's not an interactive mapping tool (which would have been nice) but it does have some interesting maps and imagery and looks at a top ... Read More »

By juhrovic on 2/23/2009 4:53 PM

I am pleased to announce that we have scheduled our annual GIS Day event for Friday March 6th. This is going to be a great event, though mmore intimate than in past years, still a wonderful learning and networking event. This year we have games and prizes, along with job recruiters and much more. For more details on this even visit

http://gislab.fiu.edu/gisday

I hope to see you all there!

By juhrovic on 1/30/2009 1:16 PM

The Hand Drawn Map Association is looking for new submitted hand drawn maps to be included in their book being published by the Princeton Architectural Press. Submissions should be received by the end of April 2009. 

If you don't already know, the maps that are part of the  Hand Drawn Map Assocation collection are created by the people and range from maps they drew to show friends how to get somewhere or maps of imagenary lands. The collection is really neat and can be viewed online.

By juhrovic on 1/26/2009 4:15 PM

The Libre Map Project is a great resource, particularly because of the availability of 1:24,000 topo sheets in digital format free for download! Additional data and documentation is also available. This is a new resource and I look forward to seeing what other good stuff they make available!

By juhrovic on 1/8/2009 11:44 AM

USGS has made ALL LandSAT Imagery free to download as of january 12 from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer. It's easy to use and pulls up imagery quickly. let's see how quickly the downloads are!

By juhrovic on 12/1/2008 9:53 AM

The Journal of Maps "is an open-access
electronic journal that aims to provide a forum for researchers to
publish maps and spatial diagrams. It provides a unique outlet for
graphical material that may otherwise be expensive or difficult to
publish in a conventional paper-based journal." Most maps accompanied with outstanding articles

By juhrovic on 12/1/2008 9:51 AM

Map of the distribution of HIV Infection around the world. The Map is avialble for free download and is based on WHO statistics.

By juhrovic on 11/12/2008 4:29 PM

This is a report/atlas submitted by the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University to the World Food Programme Latin American Regional Office in Panama City.  This series of maps shoe  "at the municipio level, the estimated prevelance of childhood chronic malnutrition...and that demostrate associations with other groagraphic amd economic characteristics and with the provision of services." This is a very interesting and detailed report...and the maps illustrate some fascinating data.

By juhrovic on 10/21/2008 9:33 AM

The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) has launched the International Year of the Reef  campaign  to raise awareness about the importance of coral reefs and the threats to these reefs. Their website provides a lot of information about coral reefs, including some basics about corals, as well as a pretty rich list of resources to help you learn more about coral reefs.

By juhrovic on 10/7/2008 10:15 AM

"Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 600 maps". The maps are cartograms. A cartogram is a map where the land area reflects some other theme (population, CO2 emissions etc). These maps are pretty basics, but also allows you to view certain concepts easily.  Take a  look through the  Map Categories to get an idea of what themes are mapped. All maps also have associated datafiles in excell format.