It’s all well and good you can rattle off that most of the worlds population is in Southeast Asia. However, conceptualizing that is sometimes really challenging. It’s almost too abstract. That’s why this graphic is so amazing – more than half the world’s population lives inside this ‘circle’. That’s AMAZING! That tiny little circle encompasses
First Weather Satellite Image of Earth, April 1 1960
This is the first weather satellite image of earth was taken slightly over 53 years ago on April 1, 1960. It was taken by the TIROS-1 satellite and it’s the first television image of earth from space. Look how far we’ve come. Via io9 Image courtesy of Rick Kohrs, SSEC via CIMSS Satellite Blog.
Map of NCAA Affiliation
In honor of March Madness, Gizmodo has a series of NCAA college basketball affiliation as measured by Facebook likes. So if you’re into college basketball and into maps, you’ll really dig that link (note I fit only one of these criteria, and I kinda dig’em). Note on the bottom for Sue…. most people hate Duke
New Hampshire to Consider Aerial Photography Ban
New Hampshire has a new bill circulating through its legislature that would ban aerial photography by anyone who isn’t the government. They’ve apparently amended the ban in committee that changes some of the major concerns, but a lot still remain. The original bill include kite cams or any other form of aerial photography collection, but
Space between my ears: You Have To Be Flexible
For the last few years, I’ve been doing all my interactive mapping development using ESRI’s Flex API. If you know me really well, you’d realize that’s a pretty big deal. No, wait, that’s the mother of all big deals. Now I should give a little background – no less than five years ago, I once
John Snow Meme
I humbly submit to the geography faithful these two memes I just created EDITED: One of our readers, Catholicgauze as he likes to be called, has crafted this in response. Bravo! Let’s keep the ball rolling everyone!
The Geography of Abortion Access in the US
Obviously abortion is a hot button topic in the United States. It has become even more so with the recent passing of the 40th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that largely made it legal in the US. I won’t touch the political bent to this with a 10′ scale bar, but I
Moon’s Gravity Mapped To The Micron
Gizmodo has a really cool article about NASA’s attempts to map the moon’s odd gravity down to the micron. Two orbiters around the moon are part of the GRAIL program have been tasked with measuring the moon’s micro gravity in an attempt to understand the moon’s interior structure. The two orbiters have been collecting data
Why Red States Are Red And Blue States Are Blue
Has anyone else given this a lot of thought? Why does red = Republican and blue = Democrat in the US? Would it surprise you to find out that convention really didn’t fully catch on until as late as 2000? I can remember as a kid seeing a sea of blue on TV when Reagan
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