Wednesday, August 4, 2010

My favourite things!












Left image: Marine traffic site.
Right image: Mapping surnames site.

Related sites to the Spatialworlds project
Spatialworlds website
21st Century Geography Google Group
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
Email contact
manning@chariot.net.au

Where am I??
Adelaide, Australia: S: 34º 55' E: 138º 36'


These are a selection of the sites I used in my RSGQ talk. They tend to be my favourite geographical sites – only until I find more!

Worldmapper- cartograms of socio-economic criteria around the world
http://www.worldmapper.org/textindex/text_index.html
Flights around the world in 24 hours
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1US_4uf4YE
If the world was a village of 100
http://www.toby-ng.com/graphic-design/the-world-of-100
Earthcam: cameras around the world
http://www.earthcam.com/
Globalis: Interactive maps
http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/
Geocaching around Australia
http://geocaching.com.au/
Google Maps and Streetview
http://maps.google.com.au/
Marine traffic in real time
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/
Tracking flu outbreaks around the world
http://flutracker.rhizalabs.com/
Calculating ecological footprints
http://of2.iearn.org/youthcalculator.html
Cities from above at night
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/CitiesAtNight/
If sea level rose
http://flood.firetree.net/
Water storage levels around Australia
http://water.bom.gov.au/waterstorage/awris/
Digging a hole through the earth
http://www.ubasics.com/dighole/
Google earth and all it has to offer.
http://earth.google.com/

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