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Children's Maps

Esri has a new basemap designed for the young at heart. The Children's Map is a fun global map full of illustrations of famous man-made ...

World Flight Paths on a 3d Globe

Yesterday ArGIS released 3d Scene Viewer. This new option in ArcGIS allows developers to add an interactive 3d WebGL globe view to maps crea...

Goodbye Google Earth, Hello 3d Scene Viewer

Any map developers still mourning the demise of the Google Earth API might be cheered a little by the news that maps in ArcGIS Online can no...

The World Ecosystems Map

The US Geological Survey (USGS) and Esri have released a detailed global ecological land units map. The map allows you to click on any locat...

The Animated Wind Forecast Map

Earth.nullschool.net's gorgeous animated globe, visualizing weather conditions around the world, has become the inspiration for many ma...

The Solar Eclipse Map

The Solar Eclipse Finder is an Esri map that displays the path of past and future solar eclipses for any location on Earth. The tool couldn...

The Interactive Map Jigsaw

If you've been furiously clicking away trying to beat your hi-score on MapQuiz then it could be time to take a break and try out a more ...

World Champion Geographer

I am the geographic champion of the world. Okay, I'm not. That title is currently held by Frederick B. But I am the fifth highest scorer...

Map Lenses

Esri has released a Maps Lens library which allows developers to add 'draggable map insets' to their maps. Esri suggest the tool cou...

The World Cup in Maps

The 2014 World Cup looks set to become the most mapped football tournament in history. The tournament itself will begin on Thursday in Brasi...

Mapping NATO Operations

Since 1949 NATO has been working to prevent conflicts around the world through political diplomacy and through military operations. A new ma...

Minard Flow Maps

There are numerous ways of visualizing data on maps. Heat maps, scatterplots, dot maps and scaled map markers are all popular methods of geo...

Football Causes Cancer

Supporting a football club is a lifetime commitment. Your team must come before everything and anyone else in your life, whether that be kid...

Mapping London's Cholera Outbreak

Sooner or later all online mapping platforms must be used to recreate John Snow's 1854 dot map of cholera deaths in London's Soho. S...