Author: Frank
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Some Fries With That Latte….?
Here’s an interesting map put out by Princeton University. It shows the preliferation of Starbucks and of Micky D’s throught the world. The Starbucks section is particularly interesting as it […]
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Where do they get all those toys?
Ok, so this is probably pretty pedestrian for most real geospatial users out there. There’s a little write-up in Digital Trends about how mapping companies like Tele Atlas get their […]
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WikiMapia hits 1,000,000 places!
I blogged WikiMapia a couple of months ago. Since we’re celebrating our 1,000th post (I guess 1001 now :)), I thought I’d note that WikiMapia hit thier 1,000,000 place on […]
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Witness the Destruction
One of the greatest things about all this aerial/satellite photography we have around is the historical analysis possibilities. The New York Times has used aerial photography to document the destruction […]
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Hot town, Summer in the City
Looks like The Lovin’ Spoonful had it right. It’s dang hot out. How hot? This satellite imagery tells us! NASA’s Earth Observatory shows heat data from 2002 for New York […]
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1969 Moon Images Could Have Been Better
Wow, TV sucks. Apparently the live broadcast moon videos from the 1969 landing were actually much better than we’ve ever realized. The camera used to film the footage wasn’t capatible […]
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general, GeographyBlogs, Physical Geography
Air Pollution Monitoring Via….Pigeons
Who knew avians could be so high tech? A new study of real-time air pollution is being undertaken using, of all things, pigeons. Little monitors are strapped to the backs […]
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Real time traffic tracking
This isn’t your father’s real time traffic tracking. This is personal. Technology has been out for awhile now that can read a license plate in traffic from a distance. So […]
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Build a better NASA?
Seed magazine has an interesting editorial about building a better NASA. The crux of the article is that NASA has gotten off of its prime mission and needs to refocus […]
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Little less action, a little more conversation please
In his blog zen GIS Development, Dave Bouwman asks what I think is a pretty important question – why aren’t we all talking together about GIS? He notes that a […]
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