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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.

Do you have the specific link to mapping of religions?

Looking for a one stop for digital research related tools. This might be your answer.

Here is a link to the chapter in the 2009 Horizon report about Geolocation. They predict that in 2-3 years this will be fully mature. "Applications for research and learning that are quick and inexpensive but still very effective are beginning to emerge as the difficulty of capturing and using geolocative data decreases."

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.

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.

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 webpage is from the folks behind geocommons finder and maker. I like this economy dashboard because it is simple and it appears to have up-to-date information (as of March 2009). The other nice aspect about geocommons in general is the access to the tabular data, and also to shapefile format for use in GIS.

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.

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.

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.

Views some amazing original works in digital format. Mercator's Atlas. Others...

The journey of mankind is an interactive flash animation that shows the population of the world through time.

Where I look for mortgage related data.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Looking for ways to use that handheld GPS? Here is a nice article focusing on GPS and all the different activities and resources that have developed around the device. This is one of the best summaries that I have seen in a while, highlighting resources that can provide hours of outdoor entertainment. Go explore!