Below are links to recommended websites for the teaching and learning about maps and places. Just click on the links and surf…

Flash Earth http://www.flashearth.com/

Google Earth http://earth.google.com/

Live Local http://local.live.com/

Geosense   http://www.geosense.net/ 

Geoexplorer http://www.geoexplorer.co.uk/  

World Atlas http://www.worldatlas.com/

OS mapping Our World http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/mappingourworld/mapping_our_world/index.htm

The Impossible Map animation http://www.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/films/film.php?sort=title&id=14229 

Where have you visited? http://www.world66.com/myworld66/visitedCountries

Cyberspace Atlas http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html

Lonely Planet http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/

World Map projections http://www.btinternet.com/~se16/js/mapproj.htm

CIA World factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Free out line maps – http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxindex.htm  or http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/county_outline.html

Distance calculator - http://www.indo.com/cgi-bin/dist

Websites to get you started with GIS… 

GIS software - http://www.advisory-unit.org.uk/home.html  

OS GIS http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/gisfiles/

Free GIS – Envrionment Agency What’s in Your Backyard http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/maps/

Geograph www.geograph.org.uk/

OS GIS Zone http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone/giszone.html

Here are a couple of sites to get images from of Britain/England: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp http://www.geograph.org.uk/ http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/ http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp

Old Maps! http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_Pages/ENG_pages/sts.htm

The World According to… http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/kungfu/world/

London Underground http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/1108.aspx

Unidted nations Environment Programme http://maps.grida.no/go/searchFree/q/poverty/page/1

More Funny Maps from the Map Room http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/

Games and Puzzles… http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm