{"id":66,"date":"2007-11-16T09:19:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T15:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/2007\/11\/16\/the-world-bank-mapped-macromedia-flash-player-required\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T09:19:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T15:19:57","slug":"the-world-bank-mapped-macromedia-flash-player-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/2007\/11\/16\/the-world-bank-mapped-macromedia-flash-player-required\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Bank, Mapped (Macromedia Flash Player)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>&#8220;Upon entering The World Bank&#8217;s homepage, even the most experienced researcher can feel a bit intimidated. The site contains thousands of documents, and even though they offer a nice search engine, it can be difficult at times to get to specific items quickly. Recently, the World bank teamed up with Google maps to create a very nice &#8216;mash-up&#8217; that serves as a visual entry point for visitors looking for projects, news, and statistics (<a href=\"http:\/\/geo.worldbank.org\/\">http:\/\/geo.worldbank.org<\/a>). Using the Google map directional arrows and zoom functions, visitors can scroll around to look for different resources. The site also contains a legend which tracks low to high income areas, along with active projects sponsored by the World Bank. Finally, visitors can also toggle the map&#8217;s &#8216;satellite&#8217; and &#8216;hybrid&#8217; views on and off as they see fit. Overall, this is a tremendous resource and one that will warrant several return visits.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><span>\u2014KMG, the scout report, 11\/16\/07<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Upon entering The World Bank&#8217;s homepage, even the most experienced researcher can feel a bit intimidated. The site contains thousands of documents, and even though they offer a nice search engine, it can be difficult at times to get to specific items quickly. Recently, the World bank teamed up with Google maps to create a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/2007\/11\/16\/the-world-bank-mapped-macromedia-flash-player-required\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The World Bank, Mapped (Macromedia Flash Player)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}