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Direct to Complete Package From the Associated Press. A set of interactive charts/maps re: U.S. economy. World S&P Ratings Map Monthly Year-Over-Year Changes in the Major Stock Market Indexes of 3o Countries S&P Weekly Closes Since 1970 A Look at U.S. Gross Domestic Product and Economic Recessions in the Past Three Decades GDP Explained First […]
Last December, Bing began adding store-by-store maps of shopping malls around the U.S. available to their desktop search product via Bing Maps. Today, maps for more than 400 malls are available and the other day we learned that shopping mall maps are now accessible on Bing Mobile (m.bing.com). This Bing Blog post has directions on […]
Digitization Project: Get Access To the Earliest Medieval Map of Britain: Digital Gough Map Launched
|From the Bodleian Library at Oxford University: A fifteen-month research project of the earliest surviving geographically recognizable map of Great Britain, known as the Gough Map, provides some revealing insights into one of the most enigmatic cartographic pieces from the Bodleian collections. The findings are recorded on a newly-launched website www.goughmap.org. The fifteen-month AHRC-funded [Arts and […]
From the NY Times: Few battles in history have been more scrutinized than Gettysburg’s three blood-soaked days in July 1863, the turning point in the Civil War. Still, there were questions that all the diaries, official reports and correspondence couldn’t answer precisely. What, for example, could Gen. Robert E. Lee actually see when he issued […]
Here’s a Roundup of Some New Stats: LinkedIn Assumes #2 Spot among U.S. Social Networking Sites (incl. Chart; via comScore) 73% of users access mobile social networks every day (ABI Research via Fierce Mobile Content) U.S. Mobile Map Audience Grows 39 Percent in Past Year as Fixed-Internet Map Audience Softens Slightly (via comScore) “Internet Users […]
New Interactive Map Reveals U.S. Tidal Energy Resources Tidal energy — a renewable, predictable resource available up and down America’s coastlines — holds great promise for clean energy generation. And now, a first of its kind database gives researchers deeper insight into the potential of this energy resource for the United States. The online database, […]
Now Available Online From David Rumsey Map Collection: "First Atlas of Russia, Published in 1745"
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|From the David Rumsey Map Collection Blog: The first Atlas of Russia from 1745 has been added to the online collection. It was published by the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia, expanding on the cartographic work done previously by Russian cartographer Ivan K. Kirilov. Joseph Nicolas de L’Isle, the great French astronomer, was […]
New & Free: USGS Releases More than 200,000 Historical Maps From 1884-2006
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|From a USGS Announcement: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Historical Quadrangle Scanning Project (HQSP) is in the process of releasing all editions and all scales of more than 200,000 historic topographic maps of the United States dating from 1884-2006. For more than 130 years, the USGS topographic mapping program has accurately portrayed the complex geography […]
From The Guardian’s Data Blog: On 9 July the Republic of South Sudan becomes the earth’s newest country – instantly making the world’s atlases completely out of date. So here’s your new guide to the globe to download and explore. Just click ‘play’ and use Prezi’s pan and zoom buttons by mousing over the right […]
International Business Research: Wolfram|Alpha Adds Data From World Bank's "Doing Business In" Dbase
|Wolfram|Alpha (an essential research tool that grows more essential just about each week) has added data from the World Bank’s “Doing Business” in database. From the W|A Blog: This data covers a wide range of issues, including import/export costs, business tax rates, and the time required to complete various business-related activities. Try the following examples […]