Maps in the News
Maps in the News will feature a different site each month which demonstrates
maps that are useful for understanding current events.
- 7/15/08
King County iMAP has added 1936 aerial photos for portions of Seattle to this interactive map which provides several current-day property and environmental data layers. Skagit County GIS provides aerial imagery from 1937 in a single downloadable file (MrSID format, 117MB).
- 4/10/08
Bird's Eye View of a Refugee's World - Google has partnered with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to provide a virtual reality tour of refugee living conditions in in remote areas of Chad, Iraq, Colombia and Sudan's volatile Darfur region. Global mapping, photographs, text and video provide insights into what life is like for these displaced people.
- 2/7/08
Election Guide 2008 - The NYTimes provides maps showing Democratic and Republican delegate tallies. The Campaign Finance interactive map displays Federal Election Commission data on fund raising totals (weekly and monthly) for all Presidential candidates. Search for individual contributors by zip code.
- 12/24/07
Strange Maps - a delightfully idiosyncratic blog about wonderfully wierd maps
ReliefWeb Map Centre provides the latest info on humanitarian emergencies and relief efforts worldwide. Maps, status reports, funding appeals, and much more. From the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
- 1/11/07
EarthNow! Landsat Image Viewer
USGS provides this near-real time, animated view of satellite imagery.
- 1/11/07
USGS Global Visualization Viewer
View and order a variety of remote sensing imagery formats for most world regions.
- 2/2/06
Check out Zillow.com which allows you to estimate home values in the United States.
- 2/2/06
My World provides students as young as middle school with an easy-to-use GIS that brings visualization and data analysis of geographic data into the classroom.
- 10/7/05
Need to know your Seattle area bus route or where the heck your bus is and when it will arrive at your stop? Then take a look at Seattle Bus Monster , a clever hack of Google Maps, King County Metro Trip Planner and the University of Washington Intelligent Transit Systems software.
- 8/2/05
Check out the Nolli Map Web Site.
Created at the University of Oregon, the site presents the 1748 Nolli map of Rome as a dynamic, interactive, hands-on tool.
- 7/13/05
Check out Google's newest mapping product: Google
Earth. You'll need to download and install the free broadband, 3D application
for it to work.
- 5/09/05
Test your knowledge of European geography by taking this interactive online
test!
- 3/01/05
Test your knowledge of United States geography by taking this interactive
online
test!
- 1/01/05
Witness the damage and relief efforts resulting from the Dec. 26 earthquake
in Southern Asia with the New York Times interactive feature:
Asia's Deadly Waves.
- 12/15/04
Explore the latest developments in the global HIV/AIDS epidemic with maps
from the annual AIDS Epidemic Update from December 2004.
- 11/2/04
Who won?!? Check out the
New York Times' interactive map of the races for President, Senator, House
of Representatives, and Governor.
- 10/5/04
Is she gonna blow? Where
are the epicenters of the earthquakes at Mount St. Helens?
- 8/3/04
Discover which presidential
candidates your neighbors are giving money to!
Last modified: Tuesday August 05, 2008
Questions? Comments? Please email us at maplib@u.washington.edu