Spatially Connected

The list was obtained from the article, "Online Map games to encourage & engages your geographic awareness"  in GISUser.com.  here is the link to the full article:  http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/23043/222/

1. MapDuel: www.mapduel.com

This one may give you a bit of vertigo with all the zooming around, but it is the only one I've found with a question / answer format. It covers the whole globe. I did find one glitch. In a bonus question it asked me, "What is the language of this country?" when it was referring to a U.S. state. Be sure to click on the "Where the hell is Matt?" link too.

2. MapGame: http://www.rethinkingschools.org/just_fun/games/mapgame.html

Not a competitive game but the fact that it focuses on Middle Eastern and Northern Africa countries makes it pertinent to current events in that region.

3. States: http://www.sporcle.com/games/states.php

To win this game you must type in the names of all 50 states in 10 minutes. It places the name of the state that you've just typed in its proper location. Don't forget Alaska and Hawaii (or New Jersey).

4. 50states: http://www.addictinggames.com/50states.html

With this game you have to drag and drop a state shape to where it belongs on a U.S. map. It allows you to get it mostly right via snapping within a certain tolerance. You can compete with others for the best score.

An exhibition at the University of Michigan is meant to inspire cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale. It has two components: the physical part supports the close inspection of high quality reproductions of maps for display at conferences and education centers; the online counterpart provides links to a selected series of maps and their makers along with detailed explanations of how these maps work. The exhibit is a 10-year effort. Each year, 10 new maps are added resulting in 100 maps total in 2014.

Check on the online exhibition:  http://scimaps.org/

Celebrating a thirty-year partnership between the Library of Congress and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM), the Maps in Our Lives exhibition explores surveying, cartography, geodesy, and geographic information systems--and draws on both the Library's historic map collections and the ACSM collection in the Library of Congress.


Check it out:  http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/maps/

Esri and the Society for Conservation GIS  are proud to announce the first international conservation mapping competition. We will give $10,000 in prizes to entries showing excellence in conservation science, social impact, innovation, cartography and interactive web maps. Applications will begin the first week of feburary 2011 for full details go to: http://www.conservationgis.org/scgis/2011contest.html

This handy map can display bike routes, transit stops, and transit routes at the same time, so you can find the best way to bike to your transit stop. 

Created by Melelani Sax-Barnett, a student from Portland State University.

Very cool!  Check it out.  http://saxbarm.geos.odin.pdx.edu/myfinalmap.html

A short clip from the TV show West Wing, which talks about the Mercator & Peters Map projections....

A new book has just come out that is the latest and greatest of data visualization.  there is a website that allows you to browse through the maps - this is as good as it gets when it come to maps & science.

check it out: 
http://scimaps.org/