Author: Sue
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What has MapQuest Been Up To?
Although MapQuest has been largely left out of a lot of the discussion on the recent explosion of web mapping, they are still out there and are retaining a significant […]
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Christmas Shopping with Google Maps and Froogle
Google just unveiled its latest online mapping tool. If you use Froogle’s search to find products, the results will be displayed on a Google Map. I tried it out for […]
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NASA’s World Wind now has Moon images
A nice article at NYTimes.com (free registration required) highlights NASA’s World Wind viewer and the ten-terabyte satellite imagery archive that is available and now includes imagery of the lunar surface […]
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NASA’s ISS EarthKAM program
I just read an article about a teacher in Maine who has had her students participating in projects based on NASA’s ISS EarthKam project. EartKAM is Earth Knowledge Acquired by […]
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Events, General, GeographyAwareness
GAW Day 5: Applied Geography
During our posts this week, we have talked about some of the main branches of geography, including physical and human geography, and the closely related discipline of cartography. For our […]
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“The Codification of Humanity” – from the Trends blog
I was catching up on some of the entries from the Trends blog and I found an entry about a video by Chris Oakley called The Catalogue. Just as Jesse’s […]
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Cartography and GIS – from GeoWorld October 2005
Head over to Geoplace.com for a nice article from GeoWorld on the relationship between GIS and Cartography by Tony Daniels and Kapil Chhabra, which fits nicely with Jesse’s post below. […]
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Internet domain addressing control to stay with ICANN for now
An agreement was reached last night, ahead of the UN World Summit on the Information Society, to keep the Internet domain addressing control under ICANN, which is under the nominal […]
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Education, Events, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography
GAW Day 2: Human Geography
Although definitions vary, most agree that human geography focuses on the interactions between humans and their environment, and the spatial relationships that define and are defined by those interactions. Human […]
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programmableweb
programmableweb is a pretty good website all about Web 2.0 and mashups, which of course are a big part of the success of the web mapping phenomenon of Google Maps, […]
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