DISTANCEFROMTO Distancefromto is a simple and easy to use Google Maps application that measures distance between two locations on a map. Distance is measured on the fly in miles and kilometers by dynamically dragging markers to desired locations or typing in locations names for the from and to inputs. The application comes with an inbuilt [...]
FreeRice I am glad I stumbled upon this site today. The FreeRice site provides a great opportunity to learn geography and at the same time contribute to world hunger by donating 20 grains of rice for every right answer t0 the United Nations World Food Program. There are two ways you could learn geography on [...]
From Matt’s Geography Blog: The Mother Jones website has an interactive map depicting the presence of U.S. troops around the world for every half-decade since 1950 plus 2007. Use the slider at the base of the map to see a timed animation of troop strength from 1950 through 2007. Zooming into a region and placing [...]
KGeography, is an interesting geography learning application for the KDE desktop environment, although it works hassle free in GNOME as well. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 and has a pretty informative website on upcoming developments and how you can contribute to the project by submitting maps. There are several [...]
If you are wondering as to why there is a change of Google logo on its homepage today, its because today is the longest day of the year aka Summer Solstice, and the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Today, the sun is directly overhead at noon at the Tropic of Cancer and on [...]
The Equator is an imaginary line that divides the earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Also known as the Great Circle, the Equator is at latitude 0 degree. Countries through which the Equator passes, experience quick sunrise and sunset and equal hours of day and night. Here’s a Google Maps Mashup of the countries that [...]
