Author: Barb

  • Earth from the Air

    If you haven’t seen them, the images from the exhibit ‘Earth from the Air’ are breathtaking. You can even send them as e-cards. “Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s mission was to create a […]

  • Inspector Gadget’s Umbrella

    There are so many possibilities for the Pileus umbrella which has wireless internet, GPS and a Google Earth digital compass. The main one being, when will it do everything Inspector […]

  • Sattellite Imagery vs. PDA Data

    An interesting BBC article on the the first international forum for indigenous peoples highlights the use of gis to preserve indigenous rainforest or pygmy communities. The DLH group which created […]

  • When science fiction comes true

    Michael Crichton wrote a book a called Prey about nanotechnology gone wrong – a swarm of nanobots that function as a hive and try to Borg the human race. Now […]

  • Tracking at work

    We usually think about tracking objects, more than we do about how they are actually tagged. This BBC picture documentary shows the process scientists went through to tag walruses for […]

  • Sat-Nav and School Trips

    This is a school trip no one is going to forget. Two bus loads of school kids ended up at an alleyway of the same name instead of a historic […]

  • Hanglide over Mars

    Although other sites have covered this story, I like the Daily Mail’s short take on it best. It is now possible to ‘hang-glide’ over Mars using 3D mapping software. The […]

  • Cool GIS related jobs

    MSN Lifestyle for Men has an interesting interview and picture of a “high tech rancher” who uses “A GPS unit feeds into Cox’s laptop, which uses GIS software to map […]

  • Gnooks and Maps

    More of a book mind map like you did in grade school, “Gnooks is a self-adapting community system based on the gnod engine. Discover new writers you will like, travel […]

  • Common Sense and Scavenger Hunts

    Some people don’t like scavenger hunts such as geocaching and the old fashioned clues and X marks the spot map because participants sometimes ignore common sense or courtesy. Some of […]

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