Video - How to Add Political Boundaries in Google Map Maker

No one knows a town or neighborhood like the people that live there. Google knows that and has made  Map Maker a crowd-sourcing project to ...

ikiMap - More Than Just Custom Google Maps

ikiMap is a free service for creating custom maps online. The service allows you to build custom maps on top of Google Maps, Bing Maps, and...

21 Map Creation Tools for Students and Teachers

Yesterday, I published a review of MapFab which is a fabulous, free, and simple tool for creating maps  online. Writing that post got me th...

Use Map a List for a Classroom Genealogy Project

Map a List  turns Google Spreadsheet information into Google Maps placemarks. The finished product is a Google Map of the information you...

UNDP Development Data Interactive Map

Over the weekend through Noel Jenkins I learned about a neat interactive map from the UNDP. The UN Stat Planet Map allows you to create us...

Seven Tools for Creating Data Visualizations

This morning I received an email asking me for some tools for creating data visualizations. Here are seven tools that students can use to bu...

Population, Landscape, and Climate Maps

The Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center publishes data sets and maps designed to blend the studies of socioeconomics and Earth scienc...

Add Custom Maps to Your Android Phone

Here's a neat application that I stumbled upon this afternoon. Custom Maps for Android allows you to use .jpeg and .png images of any ...

Build A Map - Create Layered Google Maps

Build A Map is a new service that allows you to build layers on top of Google Maps. This is different than creating maps in the "My Pl...

Food Environment Atlas and Food Desert Atlas

Yesterday, I wrote a post about Oxfam's Food Price Pressure Points Map . Through a comment on that post made by Amy Young-Buckler I lear...

Show World - Infographic Maps

Show World is an interactive mapping website that takes demographic, economic, environmental, and political data sets and creates maps ba...

TimeMaps - A Journey Through History

TimeMaps is best described as a mash-up of encyclopedia, timeline, and map elements. TimeMaps' world map is designed as an overview of...

Measure the Impact of Asteroids & Atomic Bombs

Carlos Labs , a data architecture and data integration firm in Australia, has developed two Google Maps-based widgets that demonstrate the r...