One of my favorite geography pop culture moments is during an episode of the TV show Friends. The gang has arrived in London, and Joey and Chandler are out sightseeing, but are having a hard time finding their way. So Joey puts his pop-up map on the ground and steps on it. "I'm gonna need to go into the map," he tells Chandler.
"If you see a little version of me inside there," Chandler responds, mortified at his friend's antics, "Kill it."
Luckily, there's little to be embarrassed about when it comes to National Geographic's MapMachine, which really does let you get inside the map. It's essentially our fabulous Atlas online, in full zoom-able glory, and it's not nearly as heavy as the real thing. I literally just spent about 15 minutes playing in it (for work purposes, naturally), and encourage all those of you who are looking for a way to celebrate Geography Awareness Week to take a gander.
It may not be a pop-up, but it's pretty spectacular.
"If you see a little version of me inside there," Chandler responds, mortified at his friend's antics, "Kill it."
Luckily, there's little to be embarrassed about when it comes to National Geographic's MapMachine, which really does let you get inside the map. It's essentially our fabulous Atlas online, in full zoom-able glory, and it's not nearly as heavy as the real thing. I literally just spent about 15 minutes playing in it (for work purposes, naturally), and encourage all those of you who are looking for a way to celebrate Geography Awareness Week to take a gander.
It may not be a pop-up, but it's pretty spectacular.
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Oh no not another toy to play with online haha. This reminds me of Google Earth, but this is much faster.
This has it's place, but if I'm going to play with a map online I'll likely be at google maps. The big National Geographic Atlas will always have a place in my heart though:
http://questingforadventure.com/?p=212
This is a great resource. I, too like Google Maps and Google Earth but sometimes it is a liitle too slow for my tastes. This program seems to remedy that to some degree. Now if it was only available dr the iPhone, that would be awesome!