1. Planning Institute of Australia - The peak body representing professions involved in planning Australia’s cities, towns, regions and places.
2. prefuse - Information Visualisation Toolkit
3. GMES Land Monitoring Portal - European Global Monitoring for Envmoent and Security
4. d_city - Established as an agency to connect and promote global activity towards data solutions for eco-cities.
5. Presentations - From the GlobModel Workshop 'Strengthening the Use of Earth Observation in Earth System Modelling' = many downloads available.

1. The PingER Project - Focused on measuring the Digital Divide from an Internet Performance viewpoint.
2. Center for Environmental Excellence - Environmental information for transportation professionals.
3. Voltree Power - Developing a mesh-networked sensing system to predict and detect forest fires.
4. Serve Your Country Food - A network of young farmers in America.
5. Map Channels - An API to embed Goolge Map on your website.

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Irkutsk Regional Information System for Environmental Protection (IRIS )

UNGC Cities Programme

The International Symposium on Global Navigation Satellite Systems, Space-Based Navigation and Ground-Based Augmentation Systems and Applications was held last week in Berlin. Bringing together representatives from around the world, the event served to provide as a forum for learning about ongoing activity relating to GNSS. Also included were activities and information relating to additional positioning augmentation systems and applications involving radio networks, communications, geodesy, cartography and surveying.

The Mississippi River in Maps & Views: From Lake Itasca to The Gulf of Mexico (2008)

By Robert A. Holland

More than eighty glorious full-color maps dating from as early as 1544 celebrate "Ol’ Man River," and the extraordinary cities that grew up on its shores, including New Orleans, Memphis, St. Louis, and Minneapolis–St. Paul.

To the Ends of the Earth: 100 Maps That Changed the World (2006)

By Jeremy Harwood

This thought-provoking history of cartography focuses on 100 key maps that changed human understanding of the world around us, changed the course of map-making itself, or directly influenced the path of history.

Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography (2005)

By Ralph E. Ehrenberg

A one-of-a-kind collection of cartographic treasures that spans thousands of years and many cultures, from an ancient Babylonian map of the world etched on clay to the latest high-tech maps of the earth, seas, and the skies above.