Google Earth Users Guide Project (with ArcGIS Online and Digimap for Schools)

A project originally funded by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) with an Innovative Geography Teaching Grant to develop teaching ideas for using Google Earth in the Geography classroom, expanded to include ArcGIS Online in 2014

Wednesday, January 07, 2026

Earth NullSchool - now available as an app

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Earth NullSchool is probably in the top five websites I've used in my teaching over the years, alongside sites like Digimap for Schools...
Saturday, January 03, 2026

Bob Lang's 30 Days of Mapping

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During November, Bob Lang shared a map a day and there were some very useful resources. He has now produced a map which shares details of a...
Monday, December 22, 2025

OS Map Tile Explorer - from Alasdair Rae

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A little Christmas gift from Alasdair Rae. A little map creation, where you can click on the OS 100km map tiles that you have visited. I...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Cal Heat Score

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Via Dr. Dawn Wright Another ESRI mapping resource which would be of value. A project in California maps the districts which are likely to be...

Dance of the Continents

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Via Jason Sawle on LinkedIn. An impressive StoryMap exploring the choreography of the continents.  Embedding not enabled. Here's the sto...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Global Building Atlas

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A project by the University of Munich has aimed at producing a map showing all the world's buildings. There are estimated to be 2.75 bi...
Wednesday, December 03, 2025

Storyscape

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Check out the year's end issue of this ESRI mapping newsletter with lots of StoryMap related news...

Data after Dark

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Via Professor James Cheshire on LinkedIn. Today we've published DATA AFTER DARK: a huge piece of work that shines a much needed light on...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Glacier Melt Visualisation

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This nice interactive infographic visualises the ice loss from Switzerland's glaciers. It is one of several from the VisQuill site , dev...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Going where the car doesn't...

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This is an interesting story on the mapping of Britain away from the roads. Here's the story of Dr. Uy Hoang: Dr. Uy Hoang, 51, decided ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

New ESRI GIS support materials

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Jason Sawle shared this on World GIS Day. Part of a forthcoming set of resources for students and teachers to explore the world.
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Sharing the blog on Substack

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I've been sharing my blogs over on my Substack Newsletter. This comes out weekly and provides an update on blog posts, projects, news, ...
Friday, October 03, 2025

Digital assessment - some trials

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This is coming soon... Katie Hall has shared some of her recent work exploring digital assessment options. She has been working with Qualif...
Sunday, September 07, 2025

250 000 page views

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Well it's taken a while to get here... this blog is one of my older ones... thanks for your interest and for reading.

Maps on Vinyl

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Coming to the UK later this month is a book by Damien Saunder. It is called Maps on Vinyl. Description from the author/publisher. Visit the ...
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