Another great group of Threadless designs
Mar 19th, 2012 | By JesseThreadless generally has a great bunch of art to wear and here are a few of the recent geo options.
Cool Stuff
Affordable Virtual Reality?
Mar 13th, 2012 | By SueA big part of my research for about a decade now has been exploring the development of immersive virtual landscapes, and how evolving technologies continue to make impressive strides toward creating compelling and believable virtual worlds. One of the issues that has always been at the forefront is the cost of virtual reality hardware, whether [...]
A map nod to Dr Seuss
Mar 2nd, 2012 | By JesseIn observation of Dr Seuss’s birthday, here is a fun reading of Tish Rabe’s Cat in a Hat story “There’s a Map on My Lap!: All About Maps (Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library)” which I clearly need to add to my shelf (and as a standard reading for my intro classes).
Engaging Cities raffle can get you into the Where Conference
Feb 22nd, 2012 | By JesseThe folks over at Engaging Cities are offering up a free registration to this year’s Where Conference. The catch? They want to hear how you have used GIS or LBS to engage citizens. From their post: Have you been involved with a project that utilized GIS or location-based services to engage citizens? We want to [...]
Video games continue to build on spatial data
Feb 2nd, 2012 | By JesseAs I have said before, fan of geo and fan of games, so when they come together it is better than the sum of the parts. The (long awaited) next installment in the SSX series will bring together one of my favorite franchises with real world elevation models. This preview video released by the creators [...]
Vexillology…I think I just learned something
Jan 27th, 2012 | By JesseYet ANOTHER reason why I love The Big Bang Theory. “I’m surrendering…to fun.” The sad part is that they probably won’t make the 52 promised episodes.
What people do with maps in the era of GPS and Web Maps
Dec 19th, 2011 | By JeffIn 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, paper maps are very useful when you’re away from our friend electricity and are certainly handy in emergencies. Beyond that I’ve started to notice, perhaps [...]
PhD Comics “More’s Law”
Dec 15th, 2011 | By JesseJorge Cham has shared many tech (and academic) truths with us over the years, but this one speaks as much about our connected/cloud future as it does our past.
Conserving the Night Sky
Dec 12th, 2011 | By JeffIs 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 . For over 22 years, the IDA has been advocating to keep our night sky clean of light pollution. Their reasons go beyond astronomy purposes and [...]
