onenew - global thinking

Cartes et visualisation

• Graphical browser: google and del.icio.us-

  Tree map of google results:
  You've to try it ! http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
  
  hp.com and linked sites
  
  Graph del.icio.us collective bookmarks: graph the global brain

• Panoramas, be THERE virtually- Wonderful panoramas from around the world: from the top of mountains to the famous places, cities, fests...
  
• Map your mind (with del.icio.us)-

  Map of what I've in mind when surfing the web Click on words to see my bookmarks.
  

  
  

  
  

• Data visualisation-

  Many data, one view: how to display information to retrieve it rapidly ?
  Keyword: tree map.
  

  There are many tools that display your info (files) on a tree or something else than a vertical hierarchy.
  

  Read this intro article , this good one and this review of tools.

• Google Earth: awesome !- Google Earth is the last marvellous thing you've to discover !
  Better in resolution than World Wind, it adds the usefull meta-information on top on geographically located places ! And imagine the diverse application it can have. Google with it tons of links in its search engine database can inform you on quite anything.
  Find a city, building, a shop, a webcam, routes, railways, airports, hotels...
  
• Earth simulator, 3D landscape : world and CH- Voici quelques bons sites présentant les GIS ou fournissant des GIS directement utilisables online
  
  Applications:
  
  World, Earth
  
  World Wind (NASA)
• GIS - satellite images- There are many precise and amazing satellite images available on the web, many of them are from NASA:
  
  DigitalGlobe.com
  map of the world, you click, you get a precise image of the location