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News stories

• NAVIPEDIA is an initiative of the European Space Agency aiming at becoming the reference for Global Navigation Satellite Systems general knowledge on the Internet http://www.navipedia.net/
• Geowiki Competition for Global Land Cover volunteers validating image classifications http://t.co/9CoenkyH
• Google and Apple compete over mapping http://tinyurl.com/csavqjb
  
• GIS = Providing Location Based Solutions http://t.co/9oY87jDm
  
• Jobs of the future? http://t.co/LnhVEobQ
  
• The Geography of Facebook http://tinyurl.com/83mr7ay
  
• Will citizen publishing of digital information trump online news? http://t.co/zmeXVam2
  

Maps and mapping

• 60,000+ Old Maps Online http://t.co/WatfNZfK
  
• Broken Letters: A Typogeography of Europe http://t.co/6Vxo6mp8
  
• Climascope visualing changing climate http://t.co/JPqJVE02
  
• Comparison of US cities' ethnic makeup in 2000 v 2010 http://t.co/MBZcaZKd
  
• Crazy Maps Show The World Organized By Human Activity http://tinyurl.com/cbcmehp
  
• Excellent collection of maps! Visualisation of spatial social structure http://t.co/caG8FTrK
  
• Financial Footprints: Transactions in Real Time - Sensable city http://t.co/BAs0rKvF
  
• Geography and mapping the London Olympic marathon route http://tinyurl.com/bwrxn57
  
• London2012 Olympics medal map http://t.co/iSNhfL1D
  
• Mapped: Every Bus Trip in London http://t.co/QkcJ6kvh
  
• Mapping a connected world Accra containers http://t.co/prdBW9y8
  
• Mapping social landscape value for New Zealand http://www.landscapemap2.org/social.html
  
• MappingForRights.org provides accurate interactive maps showing the location of communities living in the forest http://www.mappingforrights.org
  
• Sightseeing maps on Google Earth http://t.co/Tk4xGSfU
  
• Sliding scale world population density map http://t.co/CD5rdva3
  
• Story Globe stories mapped http://t.co/oae8BKX0
  
• SurgingSeas risk map of Washington, DC http://t.co/n7jKFtoQ
  
• Ten of the greatest maps that changed the world http://t.co/SO1mvJ8t
  
• The Coolest New Maps of London http://t.co/bET93xQO
  
• The geography of billionaires ....by location http://t.co/LbOmgJSa
  
• The gun crime map of America: interactive http://t.co/DWG5BL9l
  
• The Interactive ZIPScribble zip code Map http://t.co/ZTLc8o1A
  
• UK Heat Map of Energy Use at the Building Level http://t.co/7qrfCQa7
  
• US National Park maps http://www.naturevalleytrailview.com
  
• Users can calculate old Roman routes on this Peuting map http://t.co/I8o8VYVk
  
• Using Twitter to track infectious diseases http://t.co/Zo9QPM5H
  
• Water Footprint: Calculate Your building Rain Footprint http://t.co/PKhZymgs
  
• What is Ethno Mapping? - Afghanistan http://gislounge.com/what-is-ethno-mapping/
  
• Wildfire Map showing Colorado Springs fire from ESRI http://t.co/cJeTaz4i

Images and geo-media

• Exposing Shanty towns in India with Google Earth http://t.co/K9YBJEsU
  
• Podcast: Making Online GIS Maps the Public will Use http://t.co/IeTQgxsX
  
• Satellite eye on Earth: July 2012 - in pictures http://t.co/Ue50k3yS
  
• This is now! Streams Instagram photos as soon as they are uploaded to capture cities in motion http://t.co/NO5r9845
  
• Use & visualize public data video http://t.co/GFoxr127
  
• Video maps every land and water transportation route on earth http://t.co/XaTaVvUU
  
• Visualisation London Travel to Work http://t.co/kHrsjVmv
  
• Visualisation Tools for Understanding Big Data http://t.co/U0qvPXBL
  
• Why I love remote sensing http://t.co/3WddKWzf

Technology, tools, apps and portals

• 9 Excellent Free Map Creation Tools for Teachers and Students: http://t.co/JtMgSoSP
  
• A free App History of Maps of the World http://t.co/entJxLGn
  
• Check out Recce: map app is out http://t.co/dFf0A6Bf
  
• Crowdmap Imagine what you could do with this in URclassroom! https://t.co/nLm1ljUC
  
• ESRI Maps for Office 1.0 now available http://tinyurl.com/97u9369
  
• Esri Maps for Office public beta released http://t.co/9LwyReHx
  
• Getting Started With Open Source Web Maps http://t.co/SjOVp8ZR
  
• GIS tools on the Mac http://t.co/QgsMqutd
  
• Landsat Imagery ChangeMatters Viewer http://t.co/aL67hkcn
  
• LandsatLook Viewer access to over 3 million scenes http://t.co/E3lw3ZR0
  
• Mapping your online community http://mapsocial.cloverpoint.com/
  
• MapSocial app in Facebook http://tinyurl.com/cgv9he6
  
• Navipedia http://www.esa.int/esaNA/SEM8TLEWF0H_index_0.html
  
• Pocket EPA: iPhone gadget to measure environmental hazards: coming soon http://t.co/eYDLmcjo
  
• Real-Time Instagram Map - animated map of photos posted in and around the London Olympics venues, make your own http://t.co/f7ClUhyl
  
• Ten Twitter Analytics and Visualization Tools  http://t.co/pQQKoMT2
  
• The Geoscape:  A new canvas for understanding http://t.co/oEnFKSIl
  
• Thematic Atlas sample app now available http://tinyurl.com/9jcfnn4
  
• Web mapping projects http://t.co/SG31gZjO
  
• What's on the other side of the world? http://t.co/XsrBx6NQ
  
• World Atlas of Photos: http://t.co/JAuzOyoy
  
• Worldmapper http://t.co/kr8cZx7l

Data sets and related information

• Comprehensive freely available data on land-surface temperature changes for the last 250 years http://t.co/5TctHW95
  
• City of Bologna open data web site http://t.co/TKtH8sfZ
  
• Forest monitoring tool ForWarn http://t.co/rlm5S1XS
  
• IGN Géoportail: data and maps of France http://t.co/RPRTFPv5
  
• Open platform for exchanging 3D models http://tinyurl.com/bwqyj5j
  
• Terrapop is integrating the world's data on population & environment http://t.co/pckJyD08
  
• The Geography of Health in New York City http://t.co/u2Nw9g0W
  
• The gun crime map of America: interactive http://t.co/DWG5BL9l
  
• USAID development data now in ArcGIS Online http://tinyurl.com/d3mor6a

Education, Teacher Training Learning and Teaching

• GIS Certification http://t.co/I6lSKZ2Q
  
• Why social media matters for educators http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/2084
  
• 10 Interactive Lessons By Google On Digital Citizenship http://t.co/GIwtrNtQ
  
• A step by step guide in creating quality maps using QGIS http://andyarthur.org/fodder/tech/qgistutorial.html
  
• Facts About The 21st Century Classroom http://t.co/nNXO5gFS
  
• Finding a place for spatial intelligence in academia http://t.co/u5N5Nj0f
  
• GIS Skills and Landscape Architecture Education http://t.co/AerzFztw
  
• How can schools teach students to be more innovative? http://t.co/QJMWjjOb
  
• IBM identifies four types of "digital personality" for media http://t.co/1Uu7XjYh
  
• Innovating Learning: key elements for a systemic approach to ICT-enabled innovation in Education and Training http://tinyurl.com/ccwbptg
  
• Is your university spatial? http://t.co/nPgeITh8
  
• Lecture and tutorial materials of the Third Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School available online http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2012/
  
• On Learning theories http://t.co/Ibi4Gydj
  
• Sixteen tips for better data journalism http://t.co/fODLmzsALT
  
• Teaching with Google Earth http://tinyurl.com/bqrlqc6
  
• Tell stories with photos and maps http://t.co/oY2TnPQ6
  
• Telling thematic stories with ArcGIS Online http://tinyurl.com/9l4ctak
  
• Toward a Vision of the Digital Textbook  http://t.co/X3VOQzkS
• Using a Smartphone and ArcGIS Online for Teaching Data Accuracy and Spatial Thinking http://t.co/ugnrWNV2

Curriculum examples

• Lesson on siting a bike-ski shop http://t.co/LlH9i5cu
  
• 10 Ways to Teach about Water Using ArcGIS Online http://tinyurl.com/c379mos
  
• Advancing STEM Education with GIS http://t.co/Us5Hkypt
• Exploring extreme temperatures: analysis with GIS lesson http://t.co/Z7y3AK9C
  
• Geoinformation and the Olympics http://tinyurl.com/c5dmx2r
  
• GIS demonstrates links between health and location http://t.co/pLZD0eo5
  
• Inequality Tutorial Using Instant Atlas http://tinyurl.com/cqcde3y
  
• IT and Maps - GIS in IT http://t.co/GwffLOIC
  
• Residential quality across Salzburg: spatial analysts at iSPACE making headlines with GIS http://t.co/cwbP7Lut
  
• Story Map on Battlefields of the US Civil War http://t.co/Z0XprYik
  
• Telling thematic stories in ArcGIS Online http://t.co/5cd72Ldo
  
• Weather and Geomedia http://t.co/PIij4AT5
• Teach and Learn About Water Using ArcGIS Online http://t.co/mev8yMog
  

Publications (some free to download)

• Augmented reality in urban places: contested content and the duplicity of code http://t.co/lLEn161L
• Exploiting Time-Derived, Activity-Based Intelligence http://t.co/w0MPO8i4
  
• Juliana Rotich’s Ushahidi Crowdmapping the world http://t.co/PLb1joeZ
  
• Latest issue of Earthzine http://t.co/lOhYRRHJ