A seventh grade geography teacher in Jefferson county Colorado was suspended for refusing to remove flags of nations from his classroom. Apparently Colorado has a state law the forbids displaying foreign flags unless they’re related to the curriculum at hand and temporary. Gee, when I was in school they wanted you to actually know the [...]
For those of you who make your living with GIS, URISA is conducting its 2006-2007 Salary Survey. The results are used by many organizations for budgetary planning and evaluation. The survey is only conducted every 3 years, so if you want to add yourself to the survey, head over to the URISA website. (The survey [...]
Pluto has been downgraded to a dwarf planet by The International Atronomical Union (IAU) comprised of 2,500 astronomers from 75 countries according to Planetary Society. You can see a map of it here at but it’s funny to watch the Colbert Report on Comedy Central This is probably the most people have talked about the [...]
Crop circles might be made by aliens (or creative people with long boards) but they are documented using GIS. Some crop circle sightings on the web include a firefox crop circle at Google Earth Blog. And at the crop circle connector site you can get all the news and field reports you need. They are [...]
We haven’t done a promo swap since the very beginning, but I want to do more. If you are one of the growing number of folks who are starting to podcast about geography, or if you have been doing it for a while now, send us a 30-60 second promo of your show in mp3 [...]
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I’ve been waiting awhile to check this out, but Microsoft Research has finally gotten their SensorMap project portal up and running as part of their larger SenseWeb project. Basically, SensorMap lets you bring in real-time data feeds, including video, and link them to the Windows Live Local map plaform. So far, they’ve got some traffic [...]
A couple of three weeks back I blogged a story (and we had it in the podcast) about the orginal Apollo Moon landing video being lost. Apparently it wasn’t just that landing, but all of them which were lost. Turn out, the Germans had it all along! Unforunately, it isn’t a complete set – they [...]
