GIS Mapping

Learn how to make the most out of your maps by using different map types, cartographic elements, and example maps.

GIS Mapping

Feature

Active Fire Maps - Landsat Burned Area Extent

3 Wildfire Maps: How to Track Real-Time Fires Around the World

Feature

Web Maps

3 Geology Maps that Explain the History of Earth

Agriculture Maps

6 Amazing Global Agriculture Maps – Farming Visualized

global transportation maps

10 Transportation Maps: Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Arctic Maps Ocean Floor

5 Maps That Explain the Arctic

Global Forest Map

4 Global Forest Maps to See the Forest for the Trees

Maps of the Dead

Maps for the Dead: A List of the Best Halloween Maps

Global weather maps

Maps & Cartography

7 Weather Maps: How To Check the Weather in Style

As weather is location-based, GIS can deliver weather information like no other. Rain or shine, these interactive weather maps will brighten your day

Web Maps: Agriculture | Arctic | Climate | Disease | Geology | Forests | Halloween | Oceans | Topographic | Transportation | Weather | Wildfire

Map Projections

North America Lambert Conformal Conic Projection

Conic Projection: Lambert, Albers and Polyconic

Tissot's indicatrix North American Lamert Conformal Conic

Map Distortion with Tissot’s Indicatrix

Rhumb Line Feature

Why Are Rhumb Lines (Loxodromes) a Constant Track Direction?

azimuthal projection

Azimuthal Projection: Orthographic, Stereographic and Gnomonic

Sinusoidal Equal Area Projection

Equal Area Projection Maps Advantages and Examples

Miller Cylindrical Projection

Cylindrical Projection: Mercator, Transverse Mercator and Miller

Geodesy

geoid

The Geoid – Hypothetical Mean Sea Level

Geodetic Survey Benchmark

Survey Benchmark Monument Locations

Compass Direction

Magnetic North vs Geographic (True) North Pole

Oblate Spheroid

Ellipsoid/Spheroid – Our Oblate Spheroid Planet Earth