[youtube]h0-FYyuvrRk[/youtube]   Senator Al Franken may be a comedian, US Senator, and a cartographer? In this video, he draws a map of the United States freehand. It may not be to scale, however. more »

Treehugger has an interesting slideshow of 12 subway maps from cities and metropolitan areas around the world. Each slide can be viewed in a smaller thumbnail image or a larger scanned file or digital image. Cartographic commentary, information, and triv… more »

[youtube]b1xXTi1nFCo[/youtube] Here's an interesting animation by Jack van Wijk of the Eindhoven University of Technology that depicts various strategies for projecting the globe on a two dimensional surface. Some of these projections are well known whil… more »

Courtesy of GeoEye GeoEye has provided a half meter resolution satellite image of the Presidential inauguration on January 20, 2009. Groups of audience members are visible in the high resolution version, which can be downloaded. more »

From the Chicago History Museum and Maps-L, here's a video of how Replogle globes are manufactured:[youtube]qgErv6M19yY[/youtube] more »