Archive for November 15th, 2005





GAW Day 2: Human Geography

Nov 15th, 2005 | By Sue

Although definitions vary, most agree that human geography focuses on the interactions between humans and their environment, and the spatial relationships that define and are defined by those interactions. Human geography has many sub-disciplines, from cultural geography to urban geography to historical geography and many others (Wikipedia lists 18 fields of Human Geography, and that’s [...]



Geocaching podcasts

Nov 15th, 2005 | By Jesse

Geocaching is, of course, the activity where you go out and find caches based on a lat/long and a few hints (apparently there are now audio hint caches, as well). With such a large hobbie there has to be a podcast to join it, here are the ones that I have found:
PodCacher
GeoRadio
CacheCast
I haven’t listened [...]



programmableweb

Nov 15th, 2005 | By Sue

programmableweb is a pretty good website all about Web 2.0 and mashups, which of course are a big part of the success of the web mapping phenomenon of Google Maps, Virtual Earth and Yahoo Maps. The associated blog has a lot of good information, so I will be checking that out. There are also other [...]



Geography Awareness Week at the National Air and Space Museum

Nov 15th, 2005 | By Sue

If you’re going to be in the Washington, DC area this week, the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian is celebrating Geography Awareness Week with a number of activities. Check out their website for details.