Author: Barb

• April 21, 2009general

  HUGE historical map collection

  Way back in 2005, Sue blogged about Dave Rumsey’s huge historical map collection . I just recently stumbled on his Google map that has started with about 120 maps from […]

• April 20, 2009general

  The Great (er) Wall of China

  According to a BBC report, geospatial technologies have helped determine that The Great Wall of China is A LOT longer than previously thought. They state that, “Archaeologists had lobbied for […]

• March 30, 2009general

  Are you following Frank Musik?

  A friend told me about this musician, Frankmusik, who has challenged himself to travel to his final gig using nothing but myspace and his cell phone. It is a pretty […]

• March 13, 2009general

  Village for Sale

  If ever there was a news story that is geography related this is it. A whole village in North Wessex Downs called Linkenholt is for sale for 22.5 million pounds […]

• March 10, 2009general

  Floating Cities

  According to CNN, floating cities are three years away. They quote a former Google engineer as stating, “Patri Friedman, a former Google engineer who now works for the Seasteading Institute, […]

• February 25, 2009general

  VisiWiki

  VisiWiki or the Visual Wiki is like visiting inside someone’s head. It almost provides a cognitive map of specific topics such as geography. I looked up Guns,Germs, and Steel and […]

• February 10, 2009general

  Puerto Rico is a magnet

  Based on the number of news stories about people intending to go to one place and ending up on a plane to Puerto Rico instead, you would think that Puerto […]

• January 29, 2009general

  Glogster

  If you haven’t seen Glogster, it’s worth checking out. It is an interactive on-line poster maker, sort of like scrapbooking or collage making on line. If you look under the […]

• January 24, 2009general

  Decorating with Globes

  Apartment Therapy has a short but sweet post on using globes for decorating in the home. Looking into globes and decorating further I found the George Glazer Gallery, sellers of […]

• December 13, 2008general, General

  NASA Life and Work on the Moon Contest

  So Nasa is having a Life and Work on the moon contest for highschool and college students to depict the future moon environment. I think that geospatial technologies won’t be […]