Map Festival Week!

This week we continue our advanced features in Flash and look further into map and graphic design. Inspired by Tufte's "Graphical Excellence" I want to look at even more maps:

Static Maps:
Census 200 maps
NYC and London subway maps and modifications
Visualizations:
Flight and Expulsion
Earth Live (Discovery Channel)
Real time Wikipedia posting shown geographically (simple but neat)

Typography:
neat video that's appropriate for map makers

and just to keep up your yearning for maps:
National Geographic's Map of the Day

And for Lab 9:
The linkto the preloading steps. Please check out the other tutorials as well -- all I've tested have worked.