Tag: GEOGRAPHY

Did you know that there's Street View in Antarctica? I had no idea until MapCrunch showed me! You know those websites that show you large panoramas of all sorts of interesting places? MapCrunch takes Google's Street View and nimbly converts it into just such a website. All you have to do is hit the large green button labeled Go!, and MapCrunch instantly updates the large Street View display with ...

The number of daylight hours we get per day has an impact on all sorts of things, ranging from our mood to agriculture and even nationwide energy consumption. Daylight Hours Explorer offers a simple way to figure out how many hours of daylight a given latitude receives at any time of the year. You punch in your latitude, which you can easily find by Googling something like "latitude of ...

I'm not entirely sure if I should call this a time waster or an educational tool. I guess it can be both. If you're stuck in 9th grade geography (or know someone who it) it could certainly help. If you're past all that school stuff and want to see how much geography you remember, check out the World Map by Game Design. You are given a world map and the names of 20 countries. You have about 10 ...

It's 2:00 in the morning and the phone rings. You roll out of bed and go grab your phone just in time to hear the person on the other end hang up, realizing it's the wrong number. You stumble back to bed and the phone rings again. You put a pillow over your head and fall asleep dreaming of what you'd do if you knew where that obnoxious caller lived. TP2Location can help. Well, to a degree. It ...

So you've got the Monday blues, and are looking for Download Squad to find you something stimulating, perhaps even intellectual to waste some time with? Look no further for we've got the perfect thing for you. "How Many Countries Can You Name" is a very simple, yet effective game in which all you need to do is think of, and type into your browser, as many countries names as you possibly can. In ...

Think you can point out Idaho on a map? Then you're probably from Idaho. For everyone else, Statetris is a surprisingly challenging little game that lets you play Tetris with the US states. Okay, the easy setting is pretty simple. States fall from the top of the screen and you have to put them in position. Since you fill the US from bottom to top, there really aren't that many possible choices for ...

Test your knowledge on where things are, with this Geography Knowledge quiz. You can test yourself on everything from bodies of water to states or even continents. You get three chances to guess the correct answer, and the more questions you answer correctly the higher your score gets. It even gives you the maximum possible score that you can get next to your score, so you can figure out how well ...

Panoramio is a Google Maps mashup that lets you map your photos. It also lets you check out foreign, and local, destinations and images that others have submitted. With Panoramio, users store up to 2GB worth of digital images in their free account, and pinpoint the exact location they were taken, care of Google Maps. This could be a great way to walk your friends through a recent hiking trip in ...

Placeopedia is a brilliantly-executed Google Maps-powered site which aims to create a map of all the articles in Wikipedia which correspond to a real-world location. The site is attractive and slick and adding a new place from Wikipedia is extremely easy: you just start typing the name of an article and Placeopedia autocompletes as you type—a functionality that should be built into Wikipedia ...