Author: Frank
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Cartography, general, Human Geography
Maps of the Religions of the US
Here’s an interesting site that shows the US broken down by religion. Unfortunately, the maps are all stand alone GIF files, one for each denomination. It would be interesting to […]
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A More Accessible Online Map
A List Apart has an interesting article on how to use CSS to make online maps more accessible to visually impaired people. What I find most interesting is that A […]
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Comparing the mapping services
The folks over at TechCrunch have put together a pretty good comparison of the various mapping services out there today. It’s a pretty quick rundown, but I think the chart […]
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general, General, Human Geography, Physical Geography
California Car Culture Could Heighten Earthquake Woes
Sorry for the excessive alliteration there, but it sums up this article quite nicely, I think. It appears that the infrastructure that surrounds car ownership does more than generate excessive […]
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Maxim Magazine Tries to Advertise on Google Earth
Warning: Image slightly risque! Maxim Magazine has created a 75-by-110-foot billboard to celebrate its 100th issue. It features a cover image of Eva Longoria rather scantily dressed. What is interesting […]
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General, general, Human Geography
Gospel of Judas Found
This is rather off the beat and path from our normal news, but I thought it was interesting given the National Geographic Society’s involvement. Apparently a National Geographic Society expedition […]
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An Imaginary City in Detail
This is kind of off the beat from normal geography stuff, but this guy in France who is 28 and is autistic has created a detailed city named Urville from […]
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Near Real Time Tracking of the Stars
No, not the celestial type… movie stars! You can track movie stars in near real-time via a Google Map. While on the surface this might appear to be a normal […]
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General, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial), WebMapping
Google Mars!
Way cool for space nuts out there like me…. Google Mars! It’s just like Google Local, except with data from Mars. There’s a nice elevation dataset and some interesting visible […]
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Geographic Names Data for Countries Around the World
Geographic names databases are pretty important for search spatial data textually. Normally geographic names are published on a country by country basis. Cartography is reporting about this new service Geonames.org […]
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