Utilyzing GoogleEarth, NOAA has made some of their Science on a Sphere datasets available to the world! To do this they created KML files for certain Science on a Sphere datasets. These files may be opened by anyone with a copy of GoogleEarth installed on their computer. The following KML file shows the world connected […]
I haven’t tried this yet, but do plan to investigate. http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/smartphones/index.html
The following Google map shows all the locations of NOAA Science on a Sphere exhibits. View Science On a Sphere Locations in a larger map
The following clip from the PBS documentary, “Life by the #s”, is a good explanation of the different types of map projections and the inevitable distortions that occur.