Human Landscapes

A blog about people and nature

GeoWeb and stats links

Interactive mapping

http://www.climatewizard.org (nice raster mapping interface)
http://www.geo-wiki.org/ (communal geodata collection)
http://earthatlas.sr.unh.edu/maps/ (click on "open calculator section": ugly and clunky- yet the right idea- a geocalculator, but no way to do rapid geocomparisons)
http://www.publicearth.com/
http://www.geocommons.com/ a variety of advanced geoweb tools

Data sources with web mapping

Interactive data visualization

Google World indicators: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22386512~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html
http://graphs.gapminder.org/ (not spatial- but lots of good ideas for highlighting similarities and differences)
http://devdata.worldbank.org/DataVisualizer/
Microsoft "Bend the Trend" carbon analysis
http://nanohub.org/ - very nice interactive visualizations and social networking

> Global Data

Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN):http://www.ciesin.org/sub_guide.html
NCAR Global Climate simulation data for download: http://www.gisclimatechange.org/
HYDE Global Historical Land Use data: http://www.mnp.nl/en/themasites/hyde/index.html
Global Soils: http://www.globalsoilmap.net/
Global data with calculation engine- create your own maps! http://earthatlas.sr.unh.edu/maps/
USGS Seamless data server: http://seamless.usgs.gov/index.php
Human population (LANDSCAN): http://www.ornl.gov/sci/landscan
FAO Global Land Cover Network: http://www.glcn.org/
Atlas of the Biosphere, Croplands, etc (SAGE): http://www.sage.wisc.edu/pages/datamodels.html
Global Environmental Monitoring (GEM): http://gem.jrc.ec.europa.eu/gam/index.htm
- Global accessibility map: http://bioval.jrc.ec.europa.eu/products/gam/index.htm

> Global Remote Sensing

Global landsat data for download: http://glovis.usgs.gov/
Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF): http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/

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