Google offers AJAX kit; free download from code.google.com http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ Via : http://www.macuser.co.uk/macuser/features/86947/map-to-the-future/page2.html

Contour mapping : http://www.earthtools.org/aboutdata.htm#contour available at http://www.earthtools.org/ Via http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2006/06/google-maps-tool-earthtools-intros.html

Map research projects : http://research.techkwondo.com/search/node/map?from=0

Hexagonal Grids (Via http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html ) ;
Amit's Thoughts on Grids (New!) includes squares, hexagons, and triangles
Hexagonal coordinates explained, including hex/pixel coordinate conversion
Numbering Systems; Distances; Angles
Isometric Cube Coordinates
The HexPart numbering system with algorithms for range, bearing, offset, and line of sight
Pixel Location to Hex Coordinates
Line of Sight and Distance
Pixel coordinate to hex coordinates
Distances in a Hexagonal Grid
Grids used in Cellular Automata

New Interactive Antique & Auction Location Map : http://www.artknowledgenews.com/node/1398 Via : http://www.artknowledgenews.com/search/node/map

Map Your Knowledge Strategy : http://www.sla.org/content/Shop/Information/infoonline/2001/jun01/stanford.cfm

Google Blog Search 'map' : http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=map&btnG=Search%20Blogs

The Remittance Mapping Project : http://www.iadb.org/mif/remittances/index.cfm
Via http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/06/05/whats-in-a-map

Map of Europe, for the blind : http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?ils:3:./temp/%7Epp_4r1m::displayType=1:m856sd=ggbain:m856sf=19014:@@@

Explorers of the Pacific : http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/pacific.html

StayUpMap Project : http://www.myspace.com/stayupmaps Via MySpace 'Map' : http://searchresults.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=advancedFind.results&websearch=1&spotId=3&Mytoken=8EF570BA-E984-40F9-BF5CEC952F7DBF571768472937

Definition : ‘Map table’ refers to the table used in the ships to read and manipulate the maps.

"Unthinkable respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein
"... dream in spite of darkness, hope in spite of odds, and prevail in spite of fear." - The Universe
"Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do." - Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943), Speculum Mentis Via http://www.calresco.org/action.htm#act
"All knowledge that is not preceded by sensation is useless to me." - Andre Gide
"Never confuse movement with action." - Ernest Hemingway