Archive for October 10th, 2005




Mapping Storm Surge from Katrina

Oct 10th, 2005 | By Sue

An effort is underway to map flood levels from Katrina from Florida to Louisiana to generate an atlas of the storm surge.
Check out the article at Wired.com

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ScienCentral: Earthquake Forecasts

Oct 10th, 2005 | By Jesse

An article over at ScienCentral discusses the use of simulations to determine the probability of earthquakes along the California coast. More of a Geology topic, but interesting non-the-less.
ScienCentral: Earthquake Forecasts
Via Digg

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GIS Long Tail

Oct 10th, 2005 | By Jesse

James over at Spatially Adjusted comments on an article by Dave Bouwman that discusses the differences in the user bases between the traditional GIS software and the new web map interfaces. Summary…ESRI and other GIS software has a given user base that will never be satisfied with the minimalist capabilities that Virtual Earth or [...]

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Yahoo! Podcasts

Oct 10th, 2005 | By Jesse

Yahoo! has joined the podcast search community with there new Yahoo! Podcasts Beta. This works fairly well and looks like it is trying to be the Technorati for podcasts.
Yahoo! Podcasts

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