Author: Frank
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Cool Stuff, General, Human Geography
Transportation… OF THE FUTURE!
If you’ve ever heard me chatting with Elvin of the ArcPad team, you’ll know that I can wax poetic about cars almost more easily than I can about GIS. I […]
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Adjusting the Nut Holding the Wheel
I really like that quote. The good folks at the Center for Environmental Research Technology (CERT) at the University of California have been engaged in researching new fuel efficiency technology. […]
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Revival of Airship Travel?
I remember reading a science fiction book in the mid-80’s that featured airship transportation on away planets. I had done a report about the Hindenburg a few years before that […]
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Flickr and GeoFences
Flickr has added a pretty cool new feature to their API set – Geofences. The idea is based upon the increasing concern over privacy, particularly spatial privacy. In the past […]
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Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
The Birth and Death of Irene as Seen From Space
NOAA just released a fascinating video showing the birth and death of hurricane Irene as seen from space. The video was created from imagery captured by the GOES-13 weather satellite. […]
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National Parks From Space
Wired has a beautiful article highlighting the views of US National Parks as seen from space. The views are simply breathtaking. I think a lot of people in the US […]
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XKCD Gets It Right Again
AND makes me feel like a slacker… If the artist wasn’t so great at this comic, I’d say he should become a geographer 😉
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Kansas Flatter Than A Pancake
Don’t let anyone tell you that geographers aren’t cool! A group of three geographers from Texas State University and Arizona State University decided to test the old adage, “Kansas is […]
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Environmental, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
Storm Tracks Move Toward The Poles
Climate models have predicted this for years, but it’s never been observed… until now. Ars Technica discusses the issue in brief. For the non-physical geographers out there (of which I […]
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Happy Anniversary Apollo Program!
Today (July 20th) marks the 42nd anniversary of landing the first man on the moon. I think most people are fairly familiar with the amount of engineering work it took […]
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