Here are some useful links related to my research. The selection is completely random and arbitrary…there are many other great websites!

Maps
Maps that matter
Strange Maps
Worldmapper
World Population Atlas

Geography, GIS and Cartography
Royal Geographical Society
The British Cartographic Society
Society of Cartographers
Free GIS Data (extensive overview of online resources)
Global Administrative Database
Link collection of the Map Department at Cambridge University
Diffusion-based method for producing density equalizing maps Paper by Michael T. Gastner and M. E. J. Newman (2004) in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 7499-7504. This paper presents the underlying principles for most of the maps shown on this website.

Data, Visualisation & Data Visualisation
Vis4 blog by Gregor Aisch
Moritz Stefaner
Visualising Data by Andy Kirk
Datavisualisation by Interactive things (Switzerland)
Guardian Datastore
European Union Open Data Portal
Govdata Portal Germany
UK Open Data Portal
USA Data Portal
World Bank Data
London Datastore
NYC Open Data

Geo-Blogs worth reading (strictly alphabetical order)
Living Geography by Alan Parkinson
Mapping London
Spatial Analysis by James Cheshire
Suprageography by Ollie O’Brien
Under the Raedar by Alasdair Rae

Everything else
One Europe
The Guardian
University of Sheffield
Social and Spatial Inequalities Research Group

Note: Entering any of the above links you do completely at your own risk.

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