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"Quando duas boas ferramentas se combinam de forma inteligente, resulta numa nova utilidade que certamente será interessante para muitas pessoas. Um bom exemplo disso é Wikihood, um aplicativo que foi criado através da combinação das ferramentas conhecidas do Google Maps e Wikipedia, com o objetivo de oferecer uma informação mais completa aos usuários. O objetivo de Wikihood é que os visitantes possam visualizar a sua direita um mapa do mundo (do Google Maps), podendo ser realizado zoom na região que interessar. Desta forma, ao chegar a certa localidade, o sistema busca automaticamente as entradas relacionadas em WikiPedia, apresentando um breve panorama sobre ela com seus links à esquerda da tela."

"The Book Depository map: a boon for book voyeurs"

"Aqui você tem um novo recurso relacionado com mapas históricos, um tema que temos abordado em várias ocasiões. Agora se trata da coleção de David Rumsey, que tem sobreposto os mapas de várias cidades ao redor do mundo no atual Google Maps, dando um efeito tão interessante quanto didático. Nós apenas temos que selecionar o mapa desejado e abrir a imagem para que possamos comparar o passado com o presente, vendo como coincidem, ou deixaram de coincidir, ruas, edifícios, parques, etc No Google Maps mania indicam outros sites mais específicos relacionados com este tema, como hipercities, mapas de Paris ou o conteúdo do Novo México ."

"A free service where you can view maps, download photographs and other information. Use OpenGeoscience material free-of-charge for non-commercial private study, research and educational activities. "

"With the help of enhanced imagery and an expert in Elizabethan script, archaeologists are beginning to unravel the meaning of mysterious text and images etched into a rare 400-year-old slate tablet discovered this past summer at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America. Digitally enhanced images of the slate are helping to isolate inscriptions and illuminate fine details on the slate-the first with extensive inscriptions discovered at any early American colonial site, said William Kelso, director of research and interpretation at the 17th-century Historic Jamestowne site (Jamestown map). (Explore an interactive guide to colonial Jamestown.) The enhancements have helped researchers identify a 16th-century writing style used on the slate and discern new symbols, researchers announced last week. The characters may be from an obscure Algonquian Indian alphabet created by an English scientist to help explorers pronounce the language spoken by the Virginia Indians. "Just like finding the Rosetta Stone led to a better understanding of the Egyptians, this tablet is beginning to add significantly to our understanding of the earliest years at Jamestown," Kelso said. It conveys messages about literacy, art, symbols and signs personally communicated by the colonists who used it, he explained. "What other single artifact has been found that has so much to tell?" Both sides of the scratched and worn 5-by-8 inch (13-by-20 centimeter) tablet are covered with words, symbols, numbers, and drawings of people, plants, and birds that its owner or other users likely encountered in the New World. There are differences in the style of handwriting, which may mean that more than one person used the tablet as a sketch pad and possibly for writing rough drafts of documents, Kelso noted. Enhanced Images To help researchers decipher the inscriptions, curators at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum Conservation Institute recently produced enhanced images

"Welcome to GreatBuildings, the world of architecture online at the leading architecture reference site on the web. This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects with photographic images and architectural drawings, integrated maps and timelines, 3D building models, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds. For up-to-the-moment coverage of the latest buildings, designers, and ideas, GreatBuildings.com is richly cross-linked with ArchitectureWeek, the leading architecture magazine online, and Archiplanet, the community-created all-buildings collection. "

"A Dutch merchant called Yohannes Klencke made the 6ft high atlas, which takes six men to lift, for the returning monarch in a bid to win favour with him in 1660. Now it is to be one of the star attractions of a British Library exhibition, called Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art. "

"January 28, 2010-A thousand-year-old temple complex (including a tomb with human sacrifice victims, shown in a digital illustration) has been found under the windswept dunes of northwestern Peru, archaeologists say. The discovery of the complex, excavated near the city of Chiclayo (map) between 2006 and late 2009, has injected a dose of reality into the legend of Naylamp, the god who supposedly founded the pre-Inca Lambayeque civilization in the eighth century A.D., following the collapse of the Moche civilization. That's because evidence at the Chotuna-Chornancap archaeological site indicates the temple complex may have belonged to people claiming to have descended from Naylamp-suggesting for the first time that these supposed descendants existed in the flesh. The sophisticated Lambayeque culture, also known as the Sicán, were best known as skilled irrigation engineers until being conquered in A.D. 1375 by the Chimú, a civilization also based along Peru's arid northern coast. Archaeologists have been "trying to decode the legend's mystery" for a century, said dig leader Carlos Wester La Torre, director of the Brüning National Archaeological Museum in Lambayeque. "The goal was to understand the possible relations between the oral legend and archaeological evidence." Within the newfound temple complex is a pyramid-shaped tomb, called Huaca Norte, which was filled with the skeletons of 33 women. (Related: "Mummy of Tattooed Woman Discovered in Peru Pyramid.") Two skeletons still have their original hair and some (top row) are mummified. All of them show cut marks, meaning they were likely tortured as part of human-sacrifice rituals. "Women are traditionally associated with fertility," La Torre said. "They are offered in religious ceremonies in return for more fertility [and other beneficial events]-like rain, for instance." (Related: "Tombs of Pre-Inca Elite Discovered Under Peru Pyramid.") -Sabrina Valle in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil January 29, 2