- The International Charter aims at providing a unified system of space data acquisition and delivery to those affected by natural or man-made disasters.
- NPR’s Here and Now describes how GIS helps businesses find profitable locations
- Halo Trust uses Google Earth to locate land mines.
- Google-powered maps help track deforestation.
- Map of world happiness by country
- Smithsonian creates interactive historic/modern map mashups for US cities.
- Hypercities
- Marketplace American Futures series podcast and storymap highlights the storytelling power of cartography through journalist James Fallow’s investigative travels across small-town America.
- Artist creates NYC 3-D map of income inequality.
- US Census Language Mapper Tool: an interactive map allowing users to explore the geography of language and immigrant communities in the United States.
- Story map of endangered languages.
- Racial dot map for the United States.
- Geography of hate using Tweets. To produce the map all tweets containing each ‘hate word’ were aggregated to the county level and normalized by the total twitter traffic in each county.
- Syracuse Community Geographer: mapping key social issues
- Map tracks refugee movements since the 1960s.
- A story from NPR about GIS being used for social justice through the slum-mapping movement in Kenya
- Map of commuting times in USA. Unfortunately, a recent study links long commutes (>50 kilometers) to early deaths for women.
- Interactive map comparing state income taxes.
- GIS use for humanitarian aid
- LA Times interview with ESRI founder Jack Dangermond.
- Scottish island omitted from Google Maps.
- Citizen science and crowdsourcing for monitoring earthquakes.
- Using GPS to measure wind speeds.
- Live mapping system of storm activity and its potential effect on key energy infrastructure from the Energy Information Administration
- Reflections on spatial data in the public domain
- Guerrilla cartography and dual worlds mapping
- A unique take on mapping by an award-winning cartographer
- Urban Observatory: compare data points for major cities across the world side-by-side
- Collection of 40 maps “that will help you make sense of the world”