Move the oil spill on your city to visualise its size in context. VISIT LINK: If It Was My Home – Visualizing the BP Oil Spill (tags: 2010 activism disaster environment geography google gis googlemaps infographics map maps mashup mashups news science visualisation visualization bp currentevents deepwaterhorizon ifitwasmyhome gulf oil …)
"What would a real-world place like New York City look like as an 8-bit video game map? I started wondering, so I created 8-Bit NYC, mixing the lo-fi overhead world maps of 1980s role-playing and adventure games with the kind of geographical data that drives today's web maps and GPS navigation. It's interactive (like Google [...]
oMaps – Offline Mapping for iPhone oMaps brings offline mapping to the iPhone. The app includes GPS, multiple zoom levels, map bookmarking and search functionality. (tags: apple tools apps opensource travel applications iphone ipod app mobile map maps geography offline location mapping openstreetmap geo osm …)
The Vice Guide To North Korea Getting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with. (tags: video funny videos travel film history politics interesting documentary geography Cinema documentation courses korea vice northkorea north shanesmith vbs vicemag magazine …)
What's Between Russia and China? Murderers in Mausoleums, his sixth book, is unmistakably Tayler. He travels from Moscow to Beijing, passing through the Kalashnikov-littered Caucasus Mountains and energy-rich Central Asia. Corrupt cops, insolent officials, pop-crazed kids and populations seething with frustration line the route. It is little wonder that democracy has failed to take hold [...]
Islam in Russia: History and Facts A panorama of Islam in Russia (tags: islam russia caucasus caucase KABARD kabarda KABARDIAN kabardino-balkaria kabards history facts geography geopolitics …)
Switzerland international cooperation A just, secure world without poverty, violent conflicts and environmental damage: this is the end pursued by Switzerland's development policy and international cooperation. The latter uses a multi-level approach and various means. As the Swiss Government's centre of competence for international cooperation, SDC is responsible for multilateral cooperation, development cooperation with the [...]
UNPO – Circassia Profile and History of Circassia and Circassians at UNPO (tags: Circassia Circassian Circassians caucase caucasus KABARD kabarda KABARDIAN kabardino-balkaria kabards unpo un nation nations geography geopolitics …)
Flags of the World Flags of the World (FOTW) is the Internet's largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags). Here you can read more than 39,000 pages about flags and view more than 73,000 images of flags. (tags: design graphics images resources History world maps international archive geography flags countries flag socialstudies vexillology [...]
World Names Profiler Search for a Surname to view its Map and Statistics. (tags: fun reference cool search world History maps research statistics technology info information map people family genealogy names surnames surname name geography …)