Geography-Based (Atlas) Maps

Countries Of The World - Base Atlas

Countries Of The World - General & Geographic Knowledge Atlas

Countries Of The World - General Travellers Knowledge Atlas

Countries Of The World - Travellers Knowledge Atlas (GB Edition)

Countries Of The World - Trade & Development Knowledge Atlas

Countries Of The World - Trade & Development Knowledge Atlas (GB Edition)

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Geographic ‘space’ is one of the fundamental concepts that we humans have invented for making sense of, and mentally & physically structuring, our world and everything in it. Indeed for over 2,000 years we have been perfecting the art & science of cartography to record what things of particular types exist where within a defined space, both for ourselves and so we can easily communicate it to others.

Our atlas knowledge maps provide an alternative visual framework to ‘traditional’ geographic maps for visually recording & communicating what ‘geographically defined things’ of a particular type exist in the real world, and the relationships between them – be they at global, international, national or local level. However they also serve as both an index of, and a virtual portal to, all the definitive / official / plain old useful knowledge resources that currently exist about these ‘things’ in the public domain, and so can be freely accessed with a couple of mouse clicks.

With potentially 1000’s of branches – each of which can have multiple attached hypelinks & tags, or embedded images and data elements – they are information rich, visually engaging, intuitive to navigate, and retain the ‘big picture’ context. They are also more versatile and much easier to adapt & share ‘on the hoof’.

NOTE: We’re currently rebuilding our knowledge map store and upgrading the contents to take advantage of advances in MindManager capabilities. Knowledge maps in each category / sub-category will appear in due course.

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Explore our Atlas Map Categories and Featured Map below. New to our knowledge maps? Explore our Map Guide to find out about the anatomy of the different map elements and how once they are combined they are more than the sum of the parts, the 2 different file formats, using HTML maps for beginners, the user benefits of our maps and the background of how we came to create them and offer them to the world in this Map Store 🙂

Countries Of The World - Base Atlas

Visually structured framework of rich knowledge seed branches of UN Macro Geographic Regions & Sub-regions and ISO3166-1 Countries of the World that is the base for all our global atlas maps.

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Countries Of The World - General & Geographic Knowledge Atlas

As per the Base Atlas plus collections of sub-branches with single links to official / definitive / plain old useful General and Geographic knowledge resources about each ISO3166-1 country of the world.

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Countries Of The World - International Travellers Knowledge Atlas

Similar to the General Atlas but with a single sub-branch collection of links to official / definitive / plain old useful knowledge resources for international travellers to each ISO3166-1 country of the world.

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Countries Of The World - International Travellers Knowledge Atlas (GB Edition)

As per the International Travellers Atlas but with an additional sub-collection of links to official knowledge resources created specifically for GB (United Kingdom) citizens / organisations.

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Countries Of The World - International Trade, Aid & Development Knowledge Atlas

Countries Of The World -International Trade, Aid & Sustainable Development Knowledge Atlas

Similar to the General Atlas but with a single sub-branch collection of links to official / definitive / plain old useful knowledge resources about international trade, aid & development in each ISO3166-1 country of the world.

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Countries Of The World - Trade & Sustainable Development Knowledge Atlas (GB Edition)

Countries Of The World - International Trade, Aid & Sustainable Development Knowledge Atlas (GB Edition)

As per the International Trade, Aid & Development Atlas but with an additional sub-collection of links to official knowledge resources created specifically for GB (United Kingdom) citizens / organisations.

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As well as being the definitive list of the different 'building blocks' of our world, our knowledge maps are a visually structured, curated by a human, comprehensive index of – and ‘discover within the big picture context, minimal click’ portal to – all the official / definitive / plain old useful knowledge resources to be found about them that are freely available in the public domain. All in a single shareable, archivable file. THe HTML version is viewable on any any modern browser, on any device, without the need for any plugins, or indeed an internet connection to view it once it has been downloaded (so it can be viewed offline, in remote locations with no signal).

Angus McDonald

Scotland The Map Project Director and Knowledge Mappers Founder & CEO

And as every MindMaanger user knows, as well as the map being your single source of truth at any time, it is just the starting point, which will grow with you as your knowledge grows, through every step of whatever process you are applying it to.

Angus McDonald

Scotland The Map Project Director and Knowledge Mappers Founder & CEO

Do not only go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosopher and Transcendentalist

A map is the greatest of all epic poems. It's lines and colours show the realisation of great dreams.

Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor

'Father of Photo-Journalism' & 1st Full-Time Editor Of National Geographic Magazine

By 're-casting' the every day tools we use to manage our world - such as atlases and calendars - in the form of visually structured, multi functional, digital knowledge maps, we can more easily connect with existing international, national & locally produced knowledge resources. This helps us, our communities and organisations avoid re-inventing wheels, better connect with each other, and do what we need to do quicker, easier and with a lot less stress 😉

I am managing IT global projects with team members and stakeholders in different countries / continents. This calendar [knowledge map] application enable at a glance to see bank holidays / national / religious events with an explanation in addition. Those explanations are a great facilitator to develop team spirit during our virtual meeting as I can exchange with each attendant on her/his national event.

Great to have all the links in the Travellers Knowledge Atlas in a single file. I downloaded it to my phone so I can look at it whenever I need to. I can also connect with the basic info I need with one click from the map rather than wading through google search results, especially handy when internet connection is limited. Have used for work stuff too.

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Countries of the World - General & Geographic Atlas

MAP CURRENTLY IN BETA – COMING SOON

Our Countries of the World – General & Geographic Knowledge Atlas builds on the knowledge framework provided by our ISO3166-1 Countries Of The World – Base Atlas through the addition of General and Geographic knowledge resource links collections of sub-branches off of the country seed branch, each with a single hyperlink to official / definitive / plain old useful General or Geographic knowledge resources about it found in the public domian….

General Knowledge Resource Links Collection
This includes the country-specific resources for BBC News, CIA World Fact Book & Foreign Governments Directory, ISO 3166 Online Portal, Wikipedia Category & Main Article, Portal & Outline, and other Wiki Foundation projects like Wikimedia Commons and Wikivoyage, as well as those produced by the United Nations System bodies, such as member state mission, data profile on UNdata as well as the World Bank Open Data portals, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) status, and environmental challenge-related resources like the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Registry under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal.

Geographic Knowledge Resource Links Collection
This includes online mapping services like Google Maps (& it’s 3D cousin Google Earth Web) and Open Street Map (with a summary of all available services on GeoHack), static map libraries from the United Nations Geospatial Division & agencies (eg. UNITAR) and WikiMedia Commons Atlas of the World, as well as the Wikipedia Geography Sub-Category & Main Article.

It’s All About That Base

As in all our ‘atlas’ knowledge maps about the countries of the world, the country seed branches that these sub-branch collections are built upon (ie. are sub-branches off of) are part of the base visual knowledge framework provided by our Countries of the World – Base Knowledge Atlas, which is comprised of knowledge seed branches for each country – as officially defined by ISO-3166-1: Codes For The Representation Of Names Of Countries – arranged as sub-branches within in an ‘org-tree’ base framework of seed branches for every UN defined Macro Geographical (Continental) Region And Sub-Region that form the ‘bigger picture’ visual & logical framework within which they sit.

Both ‘Region’ and ‘Country’ seed branches have a rich range of contextual knowledge elements visibly embedded within them or attached to them (most of which are unique to MindManager)…

Outline shape shows the nature of the country’s borders with it’s equivalent neighbours (‘island’, ‘land-locked’ etc.).

Images of thumbnail location maps & country flags.

Title text is the country’s official ‘Short’ and ‘Full’ names and 2 and 3 letter and numeric codes (as listed on the country’s entry of the official ISO3166-1 Online Browsing Platform) in variably formatted (‘rich’) text.

Single data fields of contextual geostatistical data such as geographic area & population (taken from official United Nations Data and CIA World Factbook sources).

Index marker tags add contextual knowledge, enable ‘geo intelligent’ map filtering as well as the invokation of ‘smart rules’ to conditionally format some elements (eg. the outline shape of the branch).

Internal hyperlinks enable quick navigation ‘jumps’ between related map branches, such as between the country seed sub-branches and their parent region as well as with the ‘Quick Links’ branch.

External hyperlinks to almost 30 of the most important official / definitive / plain old useful public domain general and geographic knowledge resources about the countries and macro-geographic regions of the world – such as the UNdata, CIA World Fact Book, Factsheets & Foreign Governments Directory and many Wikipedia Categories, Main Articles, Portals, Outlines & Lists.

This Countries of the World – General & Geographic Knowledge Atlas map then is an invaluable ‘thumb & brain friendly’ desktop (or even ‘in the field’) research tool that will enable you spend less time getting lost down internet search rabbit holes and more time actually finding and applying the world’s knowledge for the benfit of you and the teams, organisations and communities you are part of.

HTML Map User Tips

Alhough the HTML5 (.html) map is read only, it still has all the content – and most of the interactivity – of the original MindManager map (from which it has been exported), and it can be viewed by anybody, in any modern web browser software, on any digital device, without the need for any software plugins, as stand-alone files or embedded in web pages, on(or off)-line (once downloaded).
Thus use it for it’s primary purpose – an intuitive to use, discover with the big picture context, minimal click portal to the best public domain official / definitive / plain old useful general & geographic knowledge resources about all the countries and territories that make up this big old beautiful world of ours 🙂

MindManager Map User Tips

As well as ‘full featured viewing and interactive querying & filtering, you are free to edit, add to, adapt and/or re-purpose this map in whole or in part, and/or use it as a source of content that can be added to your own existing maps. For example…

Create a living research document – Record the important information from the listed resources in the map – as a note or sub-branches – ‘in-situ’ as you discover it to create a ‘single source of truth’ for your research project that’s always up to date.
Use the content in other maps – Copy and paste a ‘GEO’ tag group to an existing map, assign to branches as appropriate, and interactively filter using your new found ‘geo-intelligence’ 😉
Create your own Territory Maps – Tag individual team members to specific Region / Country branches to create a virtual sales / operational territory map with built-in links to the world’s best public domain general and geographic knowledge resources (or physically re-arrange the region / county branches to form the territories).

Explore the other product tabs for…

comprehensive descriptions of the General Features, Knowledge Seed Branches and Knowledge Link Collections that make up this knowledge atlas map.
the full range of Buying Options (this map may also be available as part of one or more product bundles of related maps).

Don’t forget that you can also View / Download a sample map in MindManager (.mmap) or HTML5 (.html) format.

You can buy the latest edition of the Countries of the World Base Atlas Map on it’s own, or bundled with the other Knowledge Atlases which are based on it, below. Looking for other atlas knowledge map combinations? Browse the ‘Related Maps’ tab on the map product page.

Explore the product tabs for comprehensive descriptions of the knowledge seed branches and knowledge link collections that make up this knowledge atlas map, as well as view / download a sample map in MindManager (.mmap) or HTML5 (.html) format. ….

16,342 Map branches, containing...
23,336 Hyperlinks to public domain general & geographic knowledge resources, about the...
249 ISO3166-1 defined countries of the world, distributed between the...
6 UN defined Macro geographic regions, 2 intermediate & 22 sub-regions