An article in Friday’s online edition of The Epoch Times reports that China will spend 200 million yuan (approximagely $25 million US) to survey the Great Wall using modern remote sensing, GPS, and GIS technology. China’s Information Center for Basic Geography will conduct the survey with the hope of determing the exact length and orientation [...]
Over at Geology.com, they’ve got a neat Google Maps mashup that shows the highest point in each of the 50 states. West Virginia’s is Spruce Knob – 4,863 feet. Alaska has the highest high point, Mount McKinley at 20,320 feet, while Florida has the lowest high point, Britton Hill at a mere 345 feet. Via [...]
For those of you familiar with the social bookmarking site Digg.com, search Digg for “geospatial” (or just click the link) and you will see that someone dugg Adena over at AllPointsBlog.com. I am definitely for this and think the community should try to see if we can get enough diggs to push this story to [...]
