Fellowships & Prizes Application Research (SC): Finding Organizations & Sites (Watson)

Maps & Street View

Maps are a great way to explore a place from a distance. You're likely familiar with Google Maps and Street View.

Particularly outside the US, consider using additional mapping services:

• Open Street Map (to find types of places, try Overpass Turbo)
• Street view services include Bing Maps (global), KartaView (Indonesia), Baidu Maps (China), and Yandex Maps (Russia and eastern Europe). 
• To find more, see street view services by country (Wikipedia).

Tailor your Google search to the country

• Change your location in Google to prioritize results for that country
• If needed, check your search settings
   
• Another option, no need to change your settings:
  • Find the top-level domain for your country (ex: for the UK, it's .co.uk)
  • Add site: to your Google search, followed immediately by the top-level domain
    • Example:  independent bookstores london site:.co.uk
    • Example:  driving germany site:.de

Different search engines, different results

• Search engine market worldwide (Statista)
• Alternative search engines to consider:

  • SearXNG

  • Marginalia 

  • DuckDuckGo

  • Ecosia

Not sure which organizations work on the projects you're interested in?  Want to see which organizations are active in a particular country?  Use these directories to find out.