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  1. Canada Rediscovered
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Robert McGhee descirbes wat we know about early European explorations of what is now Canada - Irish, Norse, English Portuguese, French, Spanish - as well as the early Europeans' interactions with the aboriginal inhabitants.
  2. Charting Environmental Conflict - The Atlas of Environmental Justice
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Another tool supporting the growing movement and better global awareness is the Atlas of Environmental Justice. The EJAtlas is packed with qualitative information about almost 1800 environmental conflicts.
  3. Computer Drawn Maps of Planning Indicators for Metropolitan Toronto.
    Resource Type: Book
  4. The Design of Everyday Things
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A book about the problems of design and how good design can overcome the frustrations of everyday things.
  5. The man reconstructing Palestine's lost villages
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Abu Sitta has diligently reconstructed and mapped the future for all Palestinians laying the groundwork for their homecoming.
    "Our plan is to reconstruct the destroyed Palestinian villages. The plans are derived from a massive database. We are creating a file for every village, its house plans before 1948, its features and characteristics, its economies and its status of education. Young architects are now working on the reconstruction of these destroyed villages to be built in the same locations with the same beautiful old features, but with modern amenities."
  6. Mapping the Underground/Alternative Press 1965-1975
    Resource Type: Website
    These interactive maps below more than 1,500 underground, alternative, and other kinds of unorthodox publications from the decade between 1965 and 1975.
  7. Mural Map of Canada
    Resource Type: Website
    Mural Routes activates communities by facilitating the creation of responsive, collaborative murals, and provides opportunities to build and advance careers in mural art.
  8. Neatline
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    In the broadest sense, Neatline is an annotation framework that makes it possible to create rich, interactive editions of visual objects. In the past, the project has focused on maps, but Neatline can also be used to annotate anything that has some sort of visual instantiation - the same set of vector-drawing and content management tools can be used to create interpretive views of paintings, drawings, photographs, documents, diagrams, and anything else that can be captured as an image.
  9. New website gives Torontonians a glimpse of the city's past
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Sidewalk Labs has unveiled a interactive map based on City of Toronto Archives images that allows people to view old pictures of Toronto by clicking on a map. However, the mapping is often wrong.
  10. OpenStreetMap
    Resource Type: Database
    OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
    OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.
    OpenStreetMap emphasizes local knowledge. Contributors use aerial imagery, GPS devices, and low-tech field maps to verify that OSM is accurate and up to date.
    OpenStreetMap is open data: you are free to use it for any purpose as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors. If you alter or build upon the data in certain ways, you may distribute the result only under the same licence.
  11. OpenStreetMap (Wikipedia article)
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the world and the advent of inexpensive portable satellite navigation devices.
  12. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
    Tax Evasion

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation they are subjected to.
  13. Queering the Map
    Resource Type: Website
    Queering the Map is a community-generated mapping project that geo-locates queer moments, memories and histories in relation to physical space.
  14. Queering the Map
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Queering the Map is a community-based online collaborative and counter-mapping platform on which users submit their personal queer experiences to specific locations on a single collective map.
  15. Terra Nostra, 1550-1950
    The Stories Behind Canada's Maps

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Celebrates the mapping of Canada by telling the stories of individuals who helped to create the maps.
  16. Witness Projection
    How Ushahidi is mapping crises around the world

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Article about 'Ushahidi', an online platform that allows for real-time reporting on humanitarian crises anywhere in the world.


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