One of our readers, Elaine, emailed us about a cool exhibition of photography by Abelardo Morell that she visited recently. Here is a link to examples of Morell’s work, including “Map with Water” Google Images also has digital images of a number of Morell’s photographs on a variety of subjects. They really are beautiful, so [...]
The following text was a recent post to the forums, but I thought it was a topic that was worth a few more eyes. I’m currently looking for GIS professionals for the Colorado chapter located in the denver metro area We need people to fill our board postions and sit on the GIS in the [...]
Those of you who have accounts on our forums probably received a notice of a private message on Thursday. Since the spam has spread beyond the forums themselves and since we haven’t had a lot of traffice since the first week, we are making them go away. We still think that forums are a great [...]
The National Geographic has their new Map Machine web mapping service up and online. Since it’s put together by ESRI, it’s a safe bet they used some combination of ArcIMS 9.2 and ArcServer 9.2. I think this map interface is one of the best I’ve ever seen for publicly digestible online maps. They’ve added all [...]
A little late for most of us to run out and celebrate, but today was Peace Day. Today was the first exam in my 250 person World Regions class, and I am sure that many of my students were not wishing me peace If you were involved in a Peace Day event, leave a comment [...]
Finally, a home decorating use for plotters. This cool tool, The Rasterbator lets you create huge rasterized images from any picture. They give some great examples including some great uses for maps. You can also look at Crafster, a craft related forum for other ways people have used giant rasters to decorate their homes.
Sir Richard Branson has promised all profits from his travel companies to combat global warming. The anouncement was made at former President Clinton’s Global Initiative. The money is supposed to be used to fund more efficent fuel technologies, which sorta makes sense for travel company profits. That’s a heck of an expensive gauntlet to throw [...]
You can now download Episode 61 in AAC format. There are chapters, images, and links. I think that enhanced podcasts are really going to be helpful when we get back into visually oriented materials. Click here to download the enhanced version
Breathing Earth is a website which displays near real-time data on birth and death rates around the world on a map interface that also shows carbon emission rates. Their data is taken from UN and World Factbook figures available through Wikipedia, although not necessarily the most recent (the carbon dioxide emission rates were from 2002, [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 61 September 17, 2006 Main Topic:Preparing for Geography Awareness Week events Click to directly download Episode 61 Click for the detailed shownotes
