Goodbye Ireland as we know it...

http://www.ryot.org/melted-polar-ice-caps/650645

The link shows sea level rise across the world if all the polar ice melts.

Game of Thrones Geology Map

http://www.stanford.edu/group/anthropocene/cgi-bin/wordpress/game-of-thrones-geology/

A rather wonderful representation of the geology of Westeros

How should cartographers map Crimea?

The internet acts a new dimension to the authoritative nature of maps in situations of contested boundaries.  How does Google map these areas?  How should we as a community of cartographers and disseminators of geographic information treat this information sensitively and appropriately?

Good article with examples here: http://geoawesomeness.com/cartographers-map-crimea/

geoguessing

A neat game where they show you a random location in Google Street View and you guess where it is on a world map.  So go on, how good are you?

http://www.geoguessr.com/

Affordability of Wellington and Auckland

Just got a job in either Wellington or Auckland - where can you afford to live?  

Great idea for an animated geovisualization.

http://affordability.org.nz/wellington.html

Stripy Zebras

It seems that zebras may have developed stripes to ward off flies - this article, summarising research just published in Nature Communications, used ecological and observation data to test a number of competing theories to explain zebras' stripes.  Obviously the geographic extent played an important part!  Nice example of how simple GIS techniques when applied to areas that normally don't use GIS can identify some pretty important results.   

Free Historic Online Maps

Over 20,000 historic maps put online by the New York Library.  Some stunning examples of cartography here.

http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/new-york-public-library-puts-20000-hi-res-maps-online.html