Image above: A WOW look at a walk in Utah.
Related links to Spatialworlds
Geogaction
Spatialworlds website
GeogSpace
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Humsteach blog
Where am I??
Adelaide, Australia: S: 34º 55' E: 138º 36'
Spatial literacy galore
Some great spatial literacy sites to explore in the classroom.
A GIS atlas of the US showing diversity, population change,
ageing and housing.
Map projections are
one of the fundamental concepts of geography and cartography. Selecting the
right map projection is one of the important first considerations for accurate
GIS analysis. The problem with projections (and the reason why there are
so many types) is that it is very difficult to represent the curved 3D surface
of the Earth on a flat 2D surface of a map; some distortion is bound to occur.
A fantastic tool for understanding dramatic weather news
events around the globe, the history of human civilization or how our
activities may be changing the future climate.
An interactive map showing hundreds of different criteria to
create thematic maps
A multinational team
of researchers led by psychologist and American expat Jason Rentfrow of the
University of Cambridge in the U.K. has sought to draw the regional lines more
clearly, literally mapping the American mood, with state-by-state ratings of
personality and temperament.
An interactive simulation map of births and deaths around the world.
This visualisation shows a world unevenly aglow with
television attention.
