Archive for August 10th, 2005





Bell Canada launches Seek & Find

Aug 10th, 2005 | By

If you thought your parents had uncanny ways of knowing what you were up to, check out how parents in Canada can now monitor their kids’ locations in near real-time on a map using Bell Canada’s Seek & Find which uses the embedded GPS capability of their cell phones and the Internet. http://www.lbszone.com/content/view/252/2/



World land use top environmental issue (Jul 21, 2005)

Aug 10th, 2005 | By

In the July issue of Science magazine, a group of leading scientists, including geographers, argue that global land use is now a top environmental issue. Here is the link to a summary of the article: http://www.news.wisc.edu/11357.html



Clouds on Google Maps

Aug 10th, 2005 | By

OK, it is late I probably shouldn’t blog just before sleep, but I figured I would forget this link in the morning. The Digg submission linked below is a person who found clouds on the aerial imagery when they were on Google Maps. They don’t say whether they think this is good or bad, but [...]