posted here to use as an exemplar for my kids later:
Video: Islay House Square in Sketchup
Done by 12 year olds using Google Sketchup.
Was wandering the internet creating a scavenger hunt to challenge my kids re/search skills, and came across this website.
From IUCN, The World Conservation Union, it is an atlas of watersheds. Again there are both online and .pdf versions of the maps. And a wonderful selection of information about each of the watersheds involved…area, landcover and [...]
Worldmapper has to be the most interesting resource I’ve bumped into in a while. Maps of the world, where apparent landmass is determined by a variable… meat exports, girls in secondary school, patents granted, etc.
Every map (equal area cartograms actually) includes a link to a PDF poster version for printing, the data files used to [...]
