Artwork on a map

This experimental map was compiled by Allen Carroll (program manager, ArcGIS online content) to demonstrate the concept of "map-enabling" artwork in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. Many of the works of art in the Museum's collection portray a specific place or include location information in their titles. Locating works of art on a map gives enthusiasts a new way of searching and discovering works of art, and encourages thinking in fresh ways about the relationship between geography and creativity, location and inspiration. Clicking on icons causes a popup to appear; clicking in turn on the image within the popup accesses descriptive pages on the National Gallery's website.


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Exceptional Nature Reserve: Vinne (Zoutleeuw, Belgium)

Next to a lot of international maps, below a map of an exceptional nature reserve at a 10 kms from where I live: the Vinne Lake. It is the only natural lake in Flanders with a long history as can be seen on this old Ferraris map (1777). In 1841 the lake was dried with pumps to use the area for agriculture and later on for tree culture. In 2004 the pumps were stopped and the lake filled again. It is now an area with an extremely rich bird life and many interesting animals and plants. An adapted web app with logo can be found here. A few clicks on the map will show you the area...


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Global Wetlands UNEP-WMC

This map features a dataset that shows the global distribution of wetlands. It was produced alongside the publication 'Wetlands in Danger", Dugan, P ed. (1993).

The wetlands data is overlayed on the Light Gray Canvas Map for reference purposes. This basemap provides nice contrast with the wetlands layer. You can change the basemap to a topographic map or imagery basemap to see more detailed features on the landscape. Use the legend or click on a feature to see the type of wetland.

This map is based on the Global Wetlands (1993) item published by UNEP-WCMC.


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Horn of Africa - Telling a story with a map

This Map Story examines the ongoing drought and famine that threaten millions of people in Somalia and elsewhere in the Horn of Africa. Four maps, accessible via the tabs near the top of the page, explore aspects of the crisis, including refugee populations, predicted food shortages, the extent of the drought, and continuing relief efforts. New satellite images show rapidly growing refugee camps in Ethiopia. The map below is only part of the story, embedded in the story-telling template of arcgis.com it tells much more: check it out here:http://storymaps.esri.com/famine/ or with an integrated multimedia experience on this page: http://www.geostories.org/story/famine-in-the-horn-of-africa/ges879C1E16C94248687.


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Wanderkarte - Naturpark Oberer Bayerischer Wald

What makes this touristic map special? The nice topographic map? The walking routes? The fact that thousands of tourists including myself have walked in this wonderful area already? Try a different template of ArcGIS.com which was just published a few days ago and open this map, then click on a route and view the elevation profile as shown below. There are a few new templates including a GPX and a story telling template. Try it!


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RSS + Map = GeoRSS

The map below shows the combination of RSS news feeds on a map based on geonames. The feeds are clickable. Notice as well a new feature of the latest arcgis.com release: you can now change basemaps in the embedded map. The latest version is also localised so you can now choose your language and regional settings.


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World Globe Map 1812 (David Rumsey Collection)

This globe map is made from a flat map of the world on Mercator's projection. Explorers' routes are shown and the interiors of Africa and Australia are largely unknown at the time. More information can be found here.


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Twelve month time series from MODIS

This map features NASA’s Next Generation Blue Marble imagery in a set of 12 monthly composite images of the entire earth, using 500-meter-resolution imagery from the MODIS satellite. These monthly images reveal seasonal changes of the land surface: the green-up and dying-back of vegetation in temperate regions such as North America and Europe, dry and wet seasons in the tropics, and advancing and retreating Northern Hemisphere snow cover. The Blue Marble Next Generation imagery was produced by Reto Stöckli, NASA Earth Observatory (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). Open the larger map to use the time slider (in this blog the map shows only the first image).


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