TC To The 'Boat

If I am ever missing look for me hiking somewhere between Traverse City and Steamboat Springs. The trails that connect these two are the North Country trail to the Lewis and Clark Trail to the Nez Prez to the Continental divide trail.

There is a great interactive map at The Partnership for the National Trails System.

Mammals Don't Need Maps

And neither do people.

See:
NewSCi:Learning to use nature's GPS

Wired: Make Like a Dolphin: Learn Echolocation

Crash Course On Palestine

The Israel-Palestine conflict is not something I follow closely, but I think I understand it much better after reading Juan Cole's The Map: The Story of Palestinian Nationhood Thwarted After the League of Nations Recognized It

Google Maps Expands

Look what Google has done: Biking directions added to Google Maps

and as The Atlantic explains: Why Google Maps' New Biking Directions Could Be Huge

I tested it to see if it would put me on the Leelanau Trail for a trip from Traverse City to Suttons Bay:

Nothing But Streets

Street View

Data visualization guru Ben Fry has created a unique map of the United States by displaying all of the nation’s 26 million roads—and nothing else

Red, Blue, And Purple

Professor Newman has his 2008 Presidential Election Results Maps up.

2004


2008


CSMonitor has maps at Patchwork Nation.

WashingtonPost.com has 2008 Presidential Election results by county too.

Maps Of Tree Species Range Maps

Amazing resource from the USGS. PDF maps of the native ranges of all North American tree species.

Digital Representations of Tree Species Range Maps from "Atlas of United States Trees" by Elbert L. Little, Jr. (and other publications)

Printable Topographic Maps

I have always had a big crush on topographic maps. Finally they've been made available via Google Maps and can be printed out for free.

Thank you Digital Map Store.

Poor Person's GIS

Google Maps Mashups 2.0

Under the "My Maps" tab.