Author: Frank
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The United Shapes
From the most excellent as always XKCD… and you can even get this one as a poster! Click the image to make it larger so you can see the detail.
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General, Human Geography, Travel
NPR Laments the Death of Paper Road Maps
Paper road maps are becoming obsolete, claims a NPR report. Well, not completely obsolete, but less and less used by daily drivers as GPS and SatNav have taken over. A […]
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Cool Stuff, General, WebMapping
Lego, Australia, and Build with Chrome
There’s a good 124 (ish) reasons I love this site – Building with Chrome and Lego. The most important are because it’s Lego and a Map. The basic premise is […]
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The Most Popular Street Names in the US
Cars and geography go hand in hand if you ask me. After all, transportation is one of our fundamental layers in GIS, right? So Jalopnik’s post detailing the most popular […]
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We Scooped Stephen Colbert!
Ok, so not by a lot..but it is interesting that Stephen Colbert covered the sea level rise issue we brought up in the latest podcast. Obviously Colbert took a much […]
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Education, Environmental, GeographyAwareness, Physical Geography
Climate Models Ignored by Media
Ars Technica is reporting an interesting article for science, I think. Researchers at George Mason University have looked at climate reporting in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The […]
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Son Finds Long Lost Family Via Google Earth
As GIS people, we know we do awesome stuff everyday. However, this may ratchet up the awesome to 11… or maybe 12. A Indian man who had been adopted by […]
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World Bank Joins Open Data Movement
The World Bank has announced it will be joining the open data movement as of July 1st. All of its research and associated data will be found on a portal […]
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March the Warmest Month on Record, Seen Visually
March was a crazy warm month. How crazy? Over 15,000 temperature records were broken in the US over the month. Check out the video to see where they happened. If […]
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