Author: Frank
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Japan Gets Nationwide Earthquake Detector
This spring, Japan will launch the first nation wide earthquake detector in the world. The system basically senses pre-major quake waves and gives a warning the big one is coming. […]
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Now For Something Completely Different….
Ok, so this really doesn’t have anything to do with geography or GIS or anything even remotely important… but it cracks me up every time I look at it. It’s […]
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A Modern Day Ruins
Here’s an intersting photo series about an abandoned town in Russia. The pictures are pretty interesting, especially when you consider this place was probably occupied less than 20 years ago. […]
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Google Maps vs. Yahoo Maps
Continuing some of the ideas from our podcast (and Farallon’s as well, apparently), this site features an interesting side by side comparison of Yahoo Maps and Google Maps. When I […]
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general, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping
Google Earth Now For Booking Flights
British Airways is now using Google Earth to help book flights. It’s a pretty simple concept – you use Google Earth to zoom to where you want to go and […]
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Gadgets, general, Navigation, Remote Sensing
What cures traffic jams? Supply and demand!
At least that’s what researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are claiming. Their idea is to use some combination of GPS or RFID to track then cars enter […]
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Is that my house??
Ever been playing around on Flickr and wonder where that picture was taken? Well now you can find out. Flickr has added the ability to geotag your photos with the […]
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Geography Teacher Suspended for Showing World Flags
A seventh grade geography teacher in Jefferson county Colorado was suspended for refusing to remove flags of nations from his classroom. Apparently Colorado has a state law the forbids displaying […]
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A Little Closure….
A couple of three weeks back I blogged a story (and we had it in the podcast) about the orginal Apollo Moon landing video being lost. Apparently it wasn’t just […]
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Back to the Future!
Yeah, it’s 80’s movie reference day around here (at least for me). Some scientists down under have decided to see if they can figure out what global warming is really […]
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