Java code for manipulating a hexagonal map : http://vesavainio.fi/pro/progr/mapgen/ (with configurable size and horizontal wrapping).

ASCII Maps : http://www.asciimaps.com/ Google Maps rendered in ASCII characters. Via http://www.poly9.com/mapping/

US Migration Map (Americans Head West, Southeast; Say 'Goodbye' to Central Northeast Region)

Example Visual Inventory : http://geuzen.blogs.com/photos/misc_documentation/index.html

A Quantitative Similarity Measure for Maps (PDF) - View as HTML(Google Earth).

MOVE: A Multi-level Ontology-based Visualization and Exploration ... Each view can have a separate focus or zoom factor.

Post patent applications on the Web and invite comments and use a community rating system designed to push the most respected comments to the top of the file, for serious consideration by the agency's examiners. Via

"It aint where ya from, it's where ya at" - Rakim 1987 (PDF) - View as HTML

'effective zooming + web mapping' Search

(Book) "A Multi-dimensional View" by William A. Tiller (postulates that space is a six-dimensional Euclidean space articulated as a close-packed hexagonal lattice with active nodal points).

Instructional Drawings : http://www.flickr.com/groups/instructionaldrawings/

Complex geometry meets art in Islamic tiles

The Great Ideas Program : http://www.thegreatideas.org/gip.html(see the Index for links to electronic texts and other information about the authors).

Side-barred here : http://unorganizedterritories.blogspot.com/ See http://unorganizedterritories.blogspot.com/2007/03/re-mapping.html

"Sometimes what we do is a great puzzlement to ourselves and others, and maybe that's the point." - Robert Genn
"Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
"Conquest of space would not have been possible without the products of perspectivisim--accurate maps and representations of the actual terrain, which allowed the observer to occupy an externalized perspective in which the globe could be viewed as a knowable totality." - Purser
"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." - Jonas Salk Via
"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi