Author: Jeff
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Cartography, Cool Stuff, general
What people do with maps in the era of GPS and Web Maps
In the era of GPS and Web Mapping you might think that paper(physical, concrete things you hold in your hands) maps are on their way out. I don’t necessarily agree, […]
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Cool Stuff, general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial), WebMapping
Conserving the Night Sky
Is your portion of the night sky polluted by artificial light? Check out this really slick Google Map interface I found on the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) web site . […]
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Holiday Gift Idea for Your Favorite Cartographer – Typographic Topography
Axis Maps presents a series of maps where all of the features, be they roads, rivers, rails, etc… are converted to text. At a distance it appears to be a […]
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Data, ESRIUC, GIS_Software, Remote Sensing
ESRI UC 2011 – Jeff’s First Exposition Hall Tour
On Tuesday at the ESRI UC I spent the majority of my day wandering through the many tables and displays set up in the exposition hall. At first I […]
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Cool Stuff, Education, ESRIUC, Events, WebMapping
ESRI EDuc Plenary Session – ArcGIS Online Improvements
At the ESRI Education User Conference Plenary this morning a few things struck me as significant for GIS use in the classroom. Bern Szukalski reviewed some of the ArcGIS.com revisions […]
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Cartography, Cool Stuff, ESRIUC, Events
Must – Have – Coffee!
Where you live might decide where you get your AM cup of joe (unless you get your fix from a local favorite). Numbers Run has a neat series of maps […]
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AugmentedReality, Cartography, Cool Stuff, Education, general, Human Geography
Animated Maps on Memorial Day Weekend
On this memorial day weekend the History Channel is kicking off a week of Civil War themed shows. While watching I thought I’d see if there were any interesting maps […]
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Education, General, Human Geography
On The Line
I’ve been fortunate enough to look over the shoulders of a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The project […]
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Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium Releases 2006 National Land Cover Data
The USGS has released National Land Cover Data (NLCD) for 2006 marking a new 5 year interval of data release as opposed to the previous 10 year cycle. The data […]
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