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USDA Interactive Plant Hardiness Zone Map
- 31 Jan 2012
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- Farming Gardening Hardiness Interactive January 31 2012 Maps Plants USDA
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The 2012 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map is the standard by which gardeners and growers can determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location. The map is based on the average annual minimum winter temperature, divided into 10-degree F zones.

For the first time, the map is available as an interactive GIS-based map.
Users may also simply type in a ZIP Code and find the hardiness zone for that area.

via planthardiness.ars.usda.gov
Map of the Square and Stationary Earth, 1893
- 23 Jan 2012
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- Flat Earth January 23 2012 Maps World
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Click image to enlarge

via retronaut.co
Map Online Communities
- 20 Dec 2011
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- 19December11 Cartography Cartoons Community Infographic Maps Online
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via xkcd.com
The White Elephant of Rucheni
- 29 Nov 2011
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- 28November11 Elephants Historical Maps Mysteries
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The Desceliers map of 1550

"On a Renaissance map of the world known as Desceliers' World Map, 1550 , there is a small white elephant standing near the Arctic coast of Russia. How it got there is a mystery. Is it a mammoth, or does it symbolize something else? The solution is like a jigsaw puzzle. We have many pieces of evidence, in different colors and shapes. But it’s not clear that all of the pieces belong to the same puzzle and, in any case, too few pieces have survived for us to be able to construct a clear image of the thinking that led the artist to place that elephant in the frozen north. Perhaps the most important clue that we have to work with is that the elephant occupies a position that mapmakers had previously reserved for a monster that we now call the walrus."

via blogs.scientificamerican.com
New High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon
- 24 Nov 2011
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- 23November11 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Maps Moon Topography
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LRO Camera Team Releases High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon

"The science team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created.

This new topographic map, from Arizona State University in Tempe, shows the surface shape and features over nearly the entire moon with a pixel scale close to 100 meters (328 feet). A single measure of elevation (one pixel) is about the size of two football fields placed side-by-side."

via nasa.gov
The Opte Project : a Fractal Dandelion
- 20 Nov 2011
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- 19November11 Connections Maps Visualization internet
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In 2004 Barrett Lyon’s friends bet him $50 that he couldn’t map the entire Internet in a day. Within two weeks the self-described technologist and entrepreneur had created a program that could output a detailed visualization of Internet connectivity in a few hours. Seven years and billions more Internet-connected devices later, Lyon is still at it. This cosmic-looking image, one of his newest creations, traces the millions of routes along which data can travel and pinpoints the hubs receiving the most traffic.

Internet giants such as AT&T and Google manage the most heavily used networks, which appear here as glowing yellow orbs; they tend to concentrate in the center of the sphere. The less popular local networks (red) sit on the periphery. Although Lyon’s visualizations have appeared in computing textbooks and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, he says he has yet to collect on his bet.

via opte.org
Ganymede : Geologic Map of the Uruk Sulcus Region
- 31 Oct 2011
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- 30October11 Astronomy Geology Maps Mars
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"This geologic map of the Uruk Sulcus region of Jupiter's moon, Gaymede, were created using images from the Voyager mission. The creators of the map looked at albedo, surface morphology and texture, and crater densities on the images to distinguish one geologic unit from another."

via astrogeology.usgs.gov
Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census
- 5 Jul 2011
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- 04July11 Census Interactive Maps Population United States
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Browse population growth and decline, changes in racial and ethnic concentrations and patterns of housing development.

via projects.nytimes.com
Growth of a Nation
- 15 Jun 2011
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- 14June11 Atlas Growth Interactive Maps United States history
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Growth of a Nation depicts the geographic history of the United States from 1789. The timeline is interactive.

See larger map via animatedatlas.com
Rethinking Schools Middle East Geography Quizz
- 1 Feb 2011
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- 01Feb11 Games Geography Maps World
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Geography Quiz -- Did you know "the Middle East"' stretches as far west as the Western Sahara in Africa? What is the smallest Middle Eastern country? Test your knowledge on a new drag-and-drop game by clicking the link.

via rethinkingschools.org
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