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Esri Maps for Office is a powerful add-in for Microsoft Office that brings the capabilities of Esri's ArcGIS Online mapping platform to Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint users. With Esri Maps for Office, you can easily create interactive maps of your organization's data, enabling you to see patterns that graphs and charts cannot reveal. Any of the interactive maps you create can be embedded in PowerPoint, so you can make your presentations even more impactful. And by leveraging ArcGIS Online, you can quickly and securely share your interactive maps in web pages, blogs, and mobile apps as well as with ArcGIS users.

This is a global map viewer that includes many global datasets and images in a fairly intuitive viewer. I also liked that you can go to the Statistics tab on the left hand navigation Table of Contents, and you can see the UN Millennium Development Goal Indicators mapped. Very straightforward.

Historic maps, multiple viewing options, some available for download, I like the timeviewer where you can view maps through time.

Great historic maps website with multiple viewing options.

Be sure to check out the lens tool. This is truly an innovation in cartographic web browsing.

While it appears to be just the LA area, this tool looks to have some promise for next generation mapping websites.

Do you like some of the New York Times maps and graphics? If so, you can view some of the projects here. Also, at the bottom of the page is MapShaper, which looks like it could be very useful for simplifying shapefiles for KML use.

Where I look for mortgage related data.

Great source for mortgage related data and maps...extensive.

Great interface that allows you to quickly save thumbnail images of your maps to put in an animation...great web map design.

Great source for historic census and religion data that you can view over time and create time-based animations.

Share geographic data and maps with the world

Insight, analysis, and research about location-based technologies including mapping and geohacking. "Mapping and location data are driving some of the most intriguing new web applications. Geohacker alpha geeks are building wickedly clever mashups. Established companies are integrating location data into all manner of workaday applications. And the location industry is growing into the Web 2.0 era. We're tracking it, and showcasing the most significant work at Where 2.0."

This is an interface for doing global or US comparisons of different indicators. Military spending, IKEA, Number of Gold Medals, Crops, Energy, are just some of the indicators that can be mapped.

I think I like the maps in this format better than Google Earth. Thank you Mr. Rumsey.

An article and map titled, "A Global Projection of Subjective Well-being:A Challenge to Positive Psychology?" by A. White

My impression of this site is "Data 2.0." I like that the data is organized by category, you can upload and download data, and it has graphing capabilities. It could be a little stronger on the mapping aspects, but if you find the data you are looking for here then it is worth it. Also, there may be social aspects to this site that I have not explored yet. Similar to the geocommons finder without the mapping component.

This NYTimes map allows you to explore immigration in the United States over time. It also allows you to choose a country and view data relating to that countries immigrants in the United States.

Are you looking for foreign languages of the world that are in danger of extinction? UNESCO has done an extensive job of mapping and categorizing the world's languages with the aim of cultural preservation.

This web mapping site allows you to view the foreign languages spoken in all 50 states based on Census data, viewable by total, percentage, or zip code.

The Spatial History Project at Stanford University, a part of the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West, is made possible by the generous funding of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Here are some Time/Map animations. It appears that there may be open source software from TimeMap, but that requires some further investigation.