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Maps story: Google Lit Trips, to RealWorldMath, to...
CREATING AND SHARING CONTENT
Tell digital stories and create interactive timelines
NARRATE, YouTube & Pictures, ALL ON A MAP!!
Google Maps... of course
Ben Friesen's Google Maps/Earth TIES12 Session
National Geographic MapMaker Interactive
Create and edit simple to complex maps that
Great resource when you need to print map
Improve the area around you (where possible)
Tripline.net Share your adventures and stories through interactive maps, pictures, words.
THINKING & LOOKING DIFFERENTLY
Mobile Device Mapping Tools
iOS
My Maps Editor Create interactive Google maps and map points, upload/attach pictures to map points, share to Google Maps through Google Account. Edit and share the maps both from My Maps Editor and Google Maps website.
Technical Tools that somehow involve maps I think could be useful to someone:
GMap Image Cutter: Turns any high resolution picture into a Google Map to embed in iBook or website. A way to retain resolution of a picture but greatly reduce download time to analyze very high resolution pictures in class. Only the part of the picture you zoom in on is downloaded at the full resolution - like a map!
Open Google Earth Files and other map data (.kml files) through the web with Google Maps: Directions Here
Map Tales Simplistic version of Tripline
EXPLORE NEW PLACES
Enter in a start and end destination, Roadtrip Mixtape fills in local music for your drive.
Let your daily playlist take you on a musical journey (OK the only plays a sample for some songs, but at least gives you a taste of local music in different areas). If you like a song look them up on Grooveshark.
SEARCH and see what you can find
GoogleEarthHacks: User uploaded Google Earth files
Learn about any neighborhood in the US
Real estate, school, crime, population and others
Public DNR data on a variety of topics to download use as you like.
MN Department of Transportation - GIM
Individual city and county maps. Updated annually
MN Historical Society Map Collection
Minnesota historical maps
Scanned primary sources and Google Earth maps!
Minnesota Streetcar Museum downloads
John R. Borchert U of MN Map Library
U of MN library committed to Minnesota Geography, past and present
HONORABLE MENTION...
Crowd sourced sound recordings attached a map to share sounds observed around the world.
Could be potential class project to build the sounds map?
estimates Solar energy potential of a building using Google Maps measure tool and estimated solar output of the area.
http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/cloudglobe/#
FINALE
Sanborn Fire Insurance maps from 1867-1970
New Ulm's Temporary Access ended 1/5/2013..
Request your own free trial here under Maps > Digital Sanborn Maps
New Ulm 1894
CURRENT EVENTS
Trendsmap.com: Real-time map of Twitter Feeds around the world
Public Flickr Map: Geotagged public Flickr photos displayed on a map
Hubii: Online newspapers all over the globe and personal "Mapazine" of news
America Revealed PBS Short Stories on how America "works"
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