Month: March 2010
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Cartography, Events, general, GeographyAwareness
Bizarre Map Challenge
For all you students out there whose maps are greeted with a “That’s bizarre…”, I’ve got the perfect map challenge for you! Our reader Keith M. sent us a heads […]
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general, Human Geography, WebMapping
Google adds Biking Directions
Apparently lots of people have been asking Google for biking directions and now they get their wish! The directions get added right along with the driving and walking directions we’ve […]
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Rock And Roll Metro Map
This is a pretty cool example of a map that shows aspatial information – the Rock and Roll Metro Map. It looks like a metro map, showing the connections between […]
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Gadgets, general, Physical Geography
Moved 10 Feet to the Left
Wired news is reporting that modern GPS sensors have be able to determine the Chilean city of Concepcion has been moved 10 feet to the west from the recent earthquake. Apparently this area […]
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I need an app for that
Today at lunch we were kicking around some ideas on connecting various content with other content or to a location in a user friendly way and I couldn’t get past […]
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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 242
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 242 March 7, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation with Peter Adams of ESRI Press Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC […]
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Live in a Movie Set
Oscar time is here and several news sources have stories about vacationing in your favorite movie setting. The Telegraph UK article “Oscars 2010: film location holidays” explores locations of this […]
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Education, general, GeographyAwareness
Popular Science Archive now online – and free!
Yes, that’s right, 137 years of awesome issues of Popular Science magazine are now available online by searching the archive at the PopSci website. If you’re a science or gadget […]
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Leica Zeno
There was a press release back in late February that I just came across from the folks at Leica Geosystems which caught my attention, partially due to the product, partially […]
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Transforming the Urban Landscape – Cheonggyecheon Stream Restoration
I’m always a fan of projects that transform decaying manmade structures and features into revitalized green spaces, and I saw this great example from Seoul, Korea. This project is even […]
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