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=Maps Become Interactive  =

Having virtually any map or satellite image at your fingertips isn't bad, is it? But there's more!! Google Maps offers features which allow anyone to create some great PERSONAL, interactive maps. To learn how this works, let's take a look at a few examples. Please feel free to return to this page often and add in as many interesting sites as you want!!

**[|Road Trip: Anchorage to Lake Stevens]** In June, 2008, my wife and I made the long trek down the Alaska Highway. While we had both traveled the road many times, this was the first time we had time to relax and be tourists. Hope you enjoy our fun!

[|**Growing Old with Phil**] This was one of the first maps I created. It is a good example of either an autobiography map or you could turn it into a family tree map. I found this to be a very fun project. The pictures jogged memories and stories which I began to WANT to write down. I think kids would enjoy this a lot! Maybe a "Family Memories" project to get them writing and working with maps at the same time!

[|****America's Highway: Oral Histories of Route 66****] Jay Crim and Shekar Davarya spent the summer of 2002 driving across the country on Route 66, collecting interviews with the people who live, work and travel on the old road. The audio, video and images on this map are the result of that summer, and offer a glimpse into what life was like on the now-decommissioned highway and what remains for those who still travel the road. The America's Highway project was intended to create both a history lesson on America of the past as well as a travel guide for visitors on 66 today. The work was supervised by Professor Bill Leslie, History of Science Department and Mike Reese, Center for Educational Resources, The Johns Hopkins University.

[|****Google Lit Trips****]

Teacher generated maps that map the story in many great novels from K - Higher Ed. What a great group of examples to help students get started on their own Lit Trip.

The Lit Trips sites includes all maps in KML files which can be imported into either Google Maps or Google Earth. We'll cover this later in the workshop.

[|****Our Earth as Art****]Welcome to the Earth as Art Gallery! Here you can view our planet through the beautiful images taken by the Landsat-7 satellite - and most recently, the Terra Satellite's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER).

[|****Major League Baseball****] Every baseball park in MLB plus the Hall of Fame.

[|****Palatial: The People's Atlas****] For some people, hearing a particular song immediately conjures up thoughts of an old boyfriend or girlfriend. For others, it's a place -- a park, a street corner or a restaurant. So instead of making mix tapes, they're making personal maps, using the friendly technology that Google uses for its mapping feature. At platial.com, a new Web site founded by "psychogeography hobbyists," the result is something like Wikipedia crossed with Rand McNally. Hundreds of "platial explorers" are contributing maps that trace everything from their first heartbreak to good birding spots.