I’ve been playing around with a new distribution of Linux called Ubuntu Studio. It’s a pretty cool OS distribution because it includes lots of applications for video, audio, and graphics editing. In the midst of playing around with it, I thought, “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if they included some of the open source geography/GIS [...]
I ran across this site today via Digg – Find your local Recycling station! I checked our area and the data is rather mediocre at best. It has the commercial sites but none of the county wide sites that are maintained. Barb works with our county recycling authority, so I’ve had a pretty good chance [...]
More fun from our friends over at Strange Maps. As the post says, Tolkien didn’t create Middle Earth from thin air, it’s based upon real geography. In this case, as sort of stylized version of Europe. Then you put in on the map, it sorta makes sense I guess. Although I would have thought he [...]
I am desperately trying to get through all the email that has piled up while we were on the road, and I had to do a quick post about this site that our reader Elaine alerted me to. It’s called Local Harvest, and has a nice Google Maps mashup feature that lets you see where [...]
