I've been updating my IndyMap for early summer trips to Italy and France and using WhereOnEarth to fill in the location details. Phil Gyford links to lots of mapping and geocoding resources on the basis of a conference he went to recently. The Indy Junior site has a lot of largely us resources for this too, at bottom of page.
I've put the map on the new where page off the homepage.
Lastly, with the recent earthquakes in Japan and Algeria here are some earthquake resources. There is an interesting experiment that happens in California, getting people to respond to "did you feel it", which creates an emotional intensity map of the quake. UPDATE: Here are the community internet intensity maps for the top ten quakes in California. I think that this is an interesting form of geocoding, mapping the real world to shared virtual view of world, which can be compared against the scientific data for the actual quake. There is a USGS fact sheet on these maps and the progamme now extends across the US and they are capturing world data, but not yet mapping it.
- Edinburgh host the worldwide earthquake locator
- the US Geological Survey host a different world quake map
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