Tag: maps

Professional Development: Did You Know that Heat maps aren’t Hot-Spot maps? I didn’t.

I was watching a video about spatial statistics this week and I learned that the beloved heat map is not the same thing as a hotspot map. I don’t expect […]

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Article via MotherNatureNews: Why we still need paper maps

Why we still need paper maps GPS may be handy, but there are some serious downsides. Whether you use a GPS device in your car or Google Maps on your […]

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Illustrated Textbook: Using Maps to Find Location

This page wraps up the Wyoming fatal traffic accident puzzle with a little help from a concept called SCALE. Vocabulary terms MAP and MENTAL MAP (aka COGNITIVE MAP) are also […]

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LESSON & VIDEO: The Geospatial Revolution Video and Worksheet

I recently revisited the Geospatial Revolution episodes created by Penn State Public Broadcasting and created a new worksheet for the series. I was reminded how good they are. If you […]

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NEWS & RESOURCE via Washington Post: Germany reunified 26 years ago, but some divisions are still strong

This 2016 article highlights how effects of border changes are still evident today. The article uses choropleth maps to highlight some of the biggest difference between East and West Berliners. […]

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RESOURCE: AP HuGe Recommended Texts

The following list is taken from the AP Human Geography Teacher’s Guide. The list looks a little dated, nevertheless, the authors have updated versions of their texts. ———————– Textbooks de […]

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INTERACTIVE: Map Projection- Google and Jason Davies

Thanks to the Vsauce video, What Does the Earth Look Like,  we can use a few other helpful sites to interact with map projection. The first one is Google’s Mercator Map Puzzle […]

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NEWS via Governing: Florida Lawmakers to Redraw Congressional Maps but on Their Own Terms

Florida Lawmakers to Redraw Congressional Maps but on Their Own Terms BY MCCLATCHY NEWS | AUGUST 5, 2014 By Mary Ellen Klas Florida legislators indicated Monday that they will meet in special session […]

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NEWS via NPR: Map Of Native American Tribes You’ve Never Seen Before

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/06/24/323665644/the-map-of-native-american-tribes-youve-never-seen-before The Map Of Native American Tribes You’ve Never Seen Before by HANSI LO WANG June 24, 2014 4:03 PM ET  Listen to the Story All Things Considered 3 min 36 sec […]

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NEWS via FCW.com: EPA: Using maps to make sense of water pollution data

EPA: Using maps to make sense of water pollution data By Frank Konkel Mar 17, 2014 West Virginians did not need an app to know that the Elk River had […]

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NEWS via Mashable: Mapmakers Debate How to Define Crimea

Mapmakers Debate How to Define Crimea A cartographer at work, circa 1930.IMAGE: VINTAGE IMAGES/HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES BY COLIN DAILEDA1 DAY AGO Much of the world is watching how the high-stakes […]

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NEWS via FCW.com: Why Maps Matter

Why maps matter By Frank Konkel Mar 17, 2014 People used to use maps so they wouldn’t get lost. But in recent years, access to the Global Positioning System and the […]

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NEWS via NPR: An Imaginary Town Becomes Real, Then Not. True Story

by ROBERT KRULWICH March 18, 2014 4:43 PM This is the story of a totally made-up place that suddenly became real — and then, strangely, undid itself and became a fantasy again. […]

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NEWS via Telegraph: The maps which explain the Ukraine crisis

The maps which explain the Ukraine crisis As Russia and Ukraine come ever closer to blows over Crimea, we explain, using maps, the issues at stake 10:35AM GMT 04 Mar […]

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NEWS via Channel NewsAsia: Virginia to be first US state to include “East Sea” in textbooks

The US State of Virginia has recently voted to include the name “East Sea” in its history and geography textbooks, alongside what is now marked only as the “Sea of […]

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NEWS via Al Jazeera: How the North Ended up on Top of the Map

How the north ended up on top of the map by Nick Danforth @ajam February 16, 2014 A cartographic history of what’s up McArthur’s Universal Corrective Map of the World.Flickr A world map […]

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NEWS via Business Insider Australia: These Maps Show Which Areas Of The Country Have The Biggest Carbon Footprints

These Maps Show Which Areas Of The Country Have The Biggest Carbon Footprints KELLY DICKERSON YESTERDAY AT 10:01 AM    19 It’s no secret that the U.S. is one of the biggest carbon […]

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NEWS via CNN: 7 Things you Probably Didn’t know about Maps

7 things you probably didn’t know about maps By Frances Cha, CNN February 3, 2014 — Updated 1011 GMT (1811 HKT) London-based map dealer Daniel Crouch shares a few unusual or […]

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RESOURCE via Metropolis Mag: These Maps Show How Subway Maps Twist Urban Reality

These Maps Show How Subway Maps Twist Urban Reality Komal Sharma A new project by historian Benjamin M. Schmidt reveals how wrong subway maps really are. Courtesy Benjamin M. Schmidt […]

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RESOURCE: Adventures in mapping | TED Playlist

See on Scoop.it – Advanced Human Geography Maps don’t just tell you which street to turn left on. Maps convey information that shapes our lives, deepen our understanding of problems […]

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News via Wired.com: How the U.S. Maps the World’s Most Disputed Territories

Keywords: Boundary disputes; Toponyms (place-names); Delineate; Define; Demarcate; Metes-and-Bounds; State Shapes; Maritime Boundaries; Maps; GPS; Political Geography. (¯`·._.·(¯`·._.·(¯`·._.· Article Below ·._.·´¯)·._.·´¯)·._.·´¯) How the U.S. Maps the World’s Most Disputed Territories […]

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RESOURCE: Free Online Maps Course: Maps and the Geospatial Revolution

Interested in taking a spatial mapping course free form Penn State University? Sign up and follow along! This is the first week that it is being offered and so far […]

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RESOURCE: 22 Maps That Show The Deepest Linguistic Conflicts In America – Business Insider

Topics: Language, dialect, pronunciation, accent, isogloss, thematic map Everyone knows that Americans don’t exactly agree on pronunciations.  Regional accents are a major part of what makes American English so interesting […]

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