I read a Momania article from last year called “Google mapping the ones you love” which explains how their family uses Google maps and other technology to help their “kids feel connected to their father when he travels for business”. So I went looking for other ways you can show someone they are very spatial
Jane Austen, Dickens, and Love
For Valentine’s Day, I went looking for maps of romantic novel worlds. I started by searching for Jane Austen and found this great interactive map of Dicken’s London. This Standfords site had a list of map references in literature. This led me to a really cool site for movie locations using google maps but still
Advanced Polar Ship
According to the BBC, “European ship designers are currently working on what is billed as the “most advanced polar research vessel in the world” appropriately called the Aurora Borealis. They will use an advanced GPS system but are undecided between the European Galileo system, the Russian Glosnass or American GPS system. Many people might not
US National Geospatial Advisory Committee Picked
The US Secretary of the Interior announced today he has named 28 people to serve on the National Geospatial Advisory Committee. This is a new committee for the Department of the Interior whose mandate is to serve in an advisory role on Federal geospatial programs. The Committee meets three to four times a year and
Library of Congress and Flickr team up to put photo collections online
The Library of Congress is going Web 2.0 by making some of its photo collections available online at Flickr. This is a really cool project that not only allows users to see these amazing photos, but the LOC is also hoping that the Flickr community can help them out by tagging, commenting, and even provide
Question – did neogeography equal Spatial Science
I am trying to tease out a memory and am looking for help. Does anyone know if there were any texts or articles from the ’60s or ’70s that used the term ‘neogeography’ to refer to Spatial Science? In archaeology, positivism was referred to commonly as New Archaeology and I know that the term New
An Ode to Santa’s Other Helpers…
Twas Christmas eve twilight, when all through the lab Not a creature was stirring, not even a tech; The maps and routes were all planned out with care, To help St. Nicholas get from here to there; The mapmakers were huddled all snug at their desks, While visions of flight plans danced in their heads;
Woot is the word
Back in 2005 Podcast hit the dictionaries, but two years later we are truly entering the digital age as Meriam-Webster will be adding the word W00T (I prefer the double zero instead of the o’s). The word is defined as: w00t (interjection) expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at
G-I-Yes
Our good buddy Rick Lawson over at ESRI sent us all a lovely little YouTube video/song – G-I-Yes. The folks down in Austin put this together for GIS Day it it is darn amusing. At our day job, we’ve had a server going wonky for the last few weeks, so I found the middle part
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