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"Want to explore the world through maps and help with humanitarian work at the same time? Map remote locations to help the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontieres and do just that!"

A beautifully made search engine for old maps. A great resource for history and geography projects. Just scroll or search the location and choose the map you wish to view. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/History

Take guided tours through each of our featured maps. Map resources around the web

An interactive county-by-county map of where people are moving to and moving from

Interesting map showing live piracy incidents in 2008.

Google map showing all live piracy incidents in the world - this would fascinating to discuss this in a current events class and correlate the incidents of piracy with political regimes and other correlated items. Present to the class- here is the map -- figure out why this may be happening in these places.

"Professional cartography is now in your hands. Maker! was designed by cartographers with an eye for detail. Style your map with shaded thematics, proportional symbols, and more. Maker! makes the tough statistical and cartographic decisions for you. Anyone can build complex, data-rich maps."

I hope this site helps you place today's current events into a greater historical context. Each map is well-researched and based in fact, and none of the work is meant to be biased or political. No spin or opinion, just fact-based conclusions about the history of war. Maps-of-War is created by a Flash-Designer hobbyist and professional history- buff. Enjoy your visit and feel free to save or share our work for your own use!

KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the Institute for the Future (IFTF) are pleased to present the 2006-2016 Map of Future Forces Affecting Educatio"

Another excellent map showing the trends and forces effecting education. A timeline format. Available in both cliackable map and printable version. Very interesting reading

Worldwide collection of thematic maps: climate, energy, ethnography, industry & economy, land use, military, population, links to other sites.

Understanding what GIS is and what it can be used for. With a GIS application you can open digital maps on your computer, create new spatial information to add to a map, create printed maps customised to your needs and perform spatial analysis. In this worksheet we explore the basic concepts behind Geographical Information Systems.

Geography mapping tool to see the elevation of the land. Move your cursor across the chart to view where that point is on the map.

A useful interactive history map of Europe. Watch as boarder move as nations rise and fall. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/History

A superb map based geography game. Download to play. Play games to find cities, countries, rivers, identify flags and more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental

interactive map - national geographic

Help pupils make connections in their learning with a metro/underground map.

Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art is a show to overturn such expectations. It leads the visitor - a bit like some erstwhile explorer - on a creative adventure around the back of that flat piece of paper we think of as the world. Drawing on the finest collection of maps on this planet - the British Library has more than four million to choose from, the vast majority of which are only very rarely, if ever, put on public display - the exhibition sets out to make clear that these pictures are about far more than mere physical description. They are a series of subjective images, each shaped by the beliefs and desires, the ambitions and prejudices, the passions and anxieties of its period.

Google Earthquakes Map

fantastic tutorial about how to use Google maps to tell a digital story