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

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

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

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Our GB Countries Of The World – International Travellers Knowledge Atlas builds on the general edition through the addition of a collection of links to knowledge resources specifically produced by the UK Government for the benefit of UK nationals travelling abroad…

United Kingdom (GB) International Travellers Knowledge Resource Link Collection – This includes all UK Embassies, Consulates, High Commissions (commonwealth countries) & Government Houses (UK overseas territories), as well as Official Foreign Travel Advice and Living In A Foreign Country Guides.

These are in addition to the link collections that are the basis for the general edition of this atlas….

International Travellers Knowledge Resource Link General Collection – This includes the country’s page(s) for it’s Wikipedia Portal, and sub-categories & main articles on Culture, Foreign Relations (including a list of all foreign diplomatic missions) & Transport, Wikivoyage crowd-sourced Travel Guide, and the World Meteoroloigcal Organisation World Weather Information Service.

Together with the selected general & geographic knowledge resources embedded within / attached to the country seed branches themselves – and those for the UN defined Macro Geographical (Continental) Regions And Sub-Regions that form the ‘bigger picture’ visual framework within which they sit – this map is the ideal starting point for ‘thumb & brain friendly’ desktop (or even ‘in the field’) research for all United Kingdom nationals interested in travelling to specific countries of the world, be it for business or pleasure.

MindManager Users – 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…

  • 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’ 😉
  • Tag 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 regions / countries to form the territories).

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. ….

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.

Price: £999.99

May also be available as part of one or more product bundles

We take full advantage of MindManager’s many unique ‘information cartography’ features when creating our unique maps so we can pack in 1000’s of ‘bits’ of knowledge into a single, visually structured, intuitive to navigate document that can be easily shared. Here are the main features of this Base Countries of the World Knowledge Atlas Map…

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Big Map With 100's Of Branches & Links And Capacity For Plenty More

MindManager maps can have 1000’s of branches without affecting the map ‘performance’ when viewed, either in MindManager software, or in a browser (the exported HTML version). Thus mapping 249 official countries of the world distributed across 7 Macro-Geographic regions, 2 intermediate- & 22 sub-regions is ‘a skoosh‘ (as we say in Scotland ;-), with plenty of spare capacity for users to add their own content.

The biggest knowledge map we have created so far has 20,000+ branches – enough for us to knowledge map the solar system [INSERT LINK] – so we can be fairly confident that we can map all the ‘things’ in a knowledge space before we start!

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Grid Style Layout Enables 'Thumb Friendly' Browsing & Ease Of Use

The main map branches are physically arranged in an ‘organisation map & vertical tree’ (‘Org-Tre’) layout to form a familiar calendar ‘grid’ of months and days. This…

  • ‘packs as much in’ to a single screen view as possible.
  • minimises the amount of user scrolling to access the content as branches expand vertically down (rather than horizontally across as in a ‘traditional’ radial map layout).
  • makes for much more ‘thumb friendly browsing’, especially on small screens.

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In terms of logical layout, by default the 1st column in our Countries of the World atlas maps is for ‘the Americas’, working across the standard world map from left to right, east to west, but MindManager users are free to re-arrange and ‘mix and match’ content from other maps to build their own atlas as required.

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Embedded & Attached Elements Provide Additional Contextual Knowledge

Knowledge elements embedded within, or attached to, seed branches provide another ‘channel’ of knowlegde that adds context to the more detailed knowledge contained in the multiple official / definitive / ‘plain old useful’ public domain resources linked to in the seed branch. Elements like…

  • unique icons & images
  • spreadsheet tables
  • charts
  • single data fields
  • index marker tags

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When ‘core’ knowledge from those resources is incorporated into branches using these elements it reduces the need to consult them in the first place. Also some of the elements can be used to ‘conditionally format’ the map eg. colouring the branches based on a particular data value. For example encoding the nature of a country’s borders with their neighbouring counties and the sea, by changing the shape of thier seed branch…

CIRCLE = all coastal borders (ie. ‘island(s)’)

 HEXAGON = all land borders (ie. ‘land-locked’)

 ROUNDED RECTANGLE = mixed coastal & Land borders

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Visually Rich 'Knowledge Seed' Branch For Every Macro-Geographic Region, Intermediate & Sub-Region

As well as defining the physical and logical layout of the map, the first 2 / 3 levels of branches are also ‘knowledge seed points’ for each  UN defined Macro Geographical (Continental) Regions, Intermediary Regions & Sub-Regions. They are visually rich, with a unique, embedded bespoke location map image & textual description, as well as  embedded geo-statistical data showing the geographic area and population etc.

The attached elements of internal navigation links to all the days of the month sub-branches, external links to public domain resources about the generic and specific month and happenings thereon, and index marker tags that enable dynamic ‘temporal filtering’ of the map contents (and any other map they are incorporated in), further add to the branch’s ‘knowledge richness’.

A full description of all the knowledge elements embedded within, and attached to, this seed branch is given in the ‘ Seed Branches’ tab.

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Visually Rich 'Knowledge Seed' Branch For Every Official Country of the World

Likewise the 3rd or 4th level branches are ‘knowledge seed points’ for each official Country of the World. They are similarly visually rich, with a unique, embedded location map & flag image & ‘rich’ (ie. variably formatted) name and official unique identifying codes. They are also shaped differently if they have all sea borders (ie. ‘islands), all land borders (ie. ‘land-locked’) or a mixture.

The attached elements of internal links to the ‘parent’ region branch, external links to public domain general & geographic knowledge resources about the country, and index marker tags that enable dynamic ‘geo-filtering’ of the map contents (and any other map they are incorporated in), further add to the branch’s ‘knowledge richness’.

A full description of all the knowledge elements embedded within, and attached to, this seed branch is given in the ‘ Seed Branches’ tab.

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Attached Multiple Hyperlinks To Public Domain Knowledge Resources

Multiple hyperlinks to definitive / official / ‘plain old useful’ knowledge resources available in the public domain about the subject attached to seed branches is another key feature of our knowledge maps. The ‘user definable link text’ (another unque MindManager feature) allows us to give clarity as to the resource being linked to (which can be very variable if left to the default text provided by the website).

As well as increasing the amount of knowledge that can be ‘squeezed’ into a map without increasing the ‘visual clutter’ of additional branches, it means these links can be retained if the seed branches are used in other maps, or this map is re-purposed. 

The full list of multiple knowledge resource hyperlinks attached to all the seed topics in this map is given in the ‘ Seed Branches’ tab.

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Attached Index Marker Tag Groups Enable 'Temporal Intelligent' & Other Map Filtering

Branches in the map may be tagged with one or more ‘index markers’ from one or more ‘marker groups’. These enable intelligent map filtering and quick navigation. The prefix to the tag group name indicates the subject nature of the tags. For example the ‘GEO’ tags, as used in this map, are all geographic in nature – such as different hierarchies of geographic areas and physical or human geographic attributes about them – which gives the map in-built ‘geographic intelligence’ and the ability to be ‘geo-filtered’. 

Note that MindManager software users can copy and paste any of the marker groups in this map to any other map, thereby adding ‘geo intelligence’ to them too, even if they are not focused on / structured by geographic areas.

The full list of index marker tags attached to all the seed topics in this map is given in the ‘ Seed Branches’ tab.

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Map Legend Branch Describes Each Topic 'Type' With Links To Further Information

Every map needs to have a legend that explains the cartographic structure, colours and symbology used, and our knowledge maps are no different. The ‘Map Legend’ branch describes each ‘type’ of map branch, and all the elements embedded within and attached to them, with links to further knowledge resources about the subject where necessary.

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'Contributing Online Knowledge-bases Branch' With Links To Further Information

We hunt down and assess many official / definitive / ‘at least practical & useful’ online knowledge resources in the process of creating our maps. The ‘Contributing Online Knowledge-bases’ branch has links to all the ones that are actually linked to in the main map content, as well as some others that aren’t (for whatever reason) but are nonetheless a good additional source of knowledge about the subject.

It is a frustrating fact of life that some online resources are organised better than others, and not all are ‘linkable to’ at the individual ‘building block’ level and so can’t be included in seed branches.

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User Definable Visual Formatting Using Built-in Topic Styles & Smart Rules

The visual formatting of all the map elements is controlled using a combination of Map Theme, Topic Styles and Smart Rules via our structured system of topic styles. The structured system makes for easier alteration ‘on the hoof’ and therefore quicker map building.

Note MindManager software users can change the appearance of the whole map with just a few clicks eg. to match their own ‘in-house’ style & branding.

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Spare

With 8,695 knowledge resource links over 2,509 branches, this map is a useful, contextual knowledge resource in it’s own right, as well as being a visually structured index of the best definitive / official / plain old useful knowledge resources available in the public domain about the political makeup of Scotland’s 1,227 Local Councillors, 354 Electoral Wards and 32 Local Councils. Thanks to MindManager’s unique capabilities it has plenty of spare capacity for further content to be added in the future.

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Spare

With 8,695 knowledge resource links over 2,509 branches, this map is a useful, contextual knowledge resource in it’s own right, as well as being a visually structured index of the best definitive / official / plain old useful knowledge resources available in the public domain about the political makeup of Scotland’s 1,227 Local Councillors, 354 Electoral Wards and 32 Local Councils. Thanks to MindManager’s unique capabilities it has plenty of spare capacity for further content to be added in the future.

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As well as the definitive list of 'building blocks' of our world, our knowledge maps are a visually structured portal to all the official / definitive / plain old useful knowledge resources to be found about them in the public domain. All in a single shareable HTML file, viewable by anybody on any device with a browser. Not bad, ken?
Angus McDonald
Scotland The Map Project Director and Knowledge Mappers Founder & CEO
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