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This interactive map shows a map of each country/continent on a scale of atheism.

Antarctica’s mountain ranges have been digitally scanned! If the ice were to melt away, they would look very similar to the Cascade Range in the USA, home of Mnt. Rainer.

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How GIS is Helping Haiti

News from the ESRI:

Redlands, California—January 20, 2010—ESRI is working closely with the geographic information system (GIS) community and agencies responding to the Haiti earthquake by providing software, technical support, GIS data, and personnel. In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake—characterized as one of the worst natural disasters ever in the Western Hemisphere—GIS- is assisting in identifying areas of extreme damage, impacts to critical infrastructure, areas suitable for food and water distribution, and more. It gives officials critical information used for making all types of decisions.

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Using GIS to map correspondence of letters during the Enlightenment age.  Developed by Stanford University.

View this “map of war” to get a visual of how many nations have overthrown the middle east. While you are watching, recall how many conquering nations did so in the name of their religious sky-god.