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Cartography, Data, Education, general, Human Geography, Pins on the map, Political Geography, Remote Sensing, Travel
Pins on the Map: George Washington Slept Here
As you shiver in the cold today during what The Weather Channel is predicting could be the coldest winter on record for decades in North America, reflect on the 1780 […]
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Cartography, Data, Education, general, Human Geography, WebMapping
The United States Railroad Administration
On December 26, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson nationalized the U.S railroads from 1917 – 1920 in response to the infrastructure demands of WWI. While it only lasted four years, the […]
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Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)
Geospatial Gif Party: Now with NASA LEGO
I like visiting the blog, i09: We come from THE FUTURE, for my daily dose of fun science and science fiction news. This headline, “Here’s the first look at Lego’s […]
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ESRIUC, GeographyBlogs, GIS_Software, Remote Sensing
3D printing and GIS
It is difficult to remember that last year the 3D printing industry hadn’t inundated the public consciousness because 3D printing and 3D visualizations were still an innovative, but not yet […]
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Events, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Political Geography, WebMapping
GIS Day in the News
Updated: Today is GIS Day and it is making headlines in major newspapers around the globe. While some mainstream media sources are celebrating GIS Day by name, others are participating […]
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Human Geography, Navigation, Physical Geography
Geocaching goes mainstream
In the world of advertising and marketing, it is fairly easy to guess that if something starts to show up on deal sites and clearance sections that it has either […]
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Environmental, Human Geography, WebMapping
Geospatial Analysis of “America’s Forgotten Nuclear Legacy”
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting in-depth report on Waste Lands: America’s Forgotten Nuclear Legacy and an interactive map of the status of cleanup by state. While they call […]
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general, Human Geography, Physical Geography, WebMapping
The Geography of Twitter
The Switch writer, Caitlin Dewey, reviewed a recent study on Twitter in her article on “Where do Twitter trends start? Try Cincinnati” for the Washington Post. It summarizes a study […]
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Remote Sensing as Art
A few years ago, I ran across a fun website, called Be My Satellite, which promotes geoliteracy through collaborative satellite image-hacking. It is a type of large scale art installment […]
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VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping
San Fran Bay Bridge: The most spatial bridge in the world
According to NPR, when the newly completed San Francisco Bay Bridge reopened, “There was little fanfare, but the gleaming white and newly built $6.4-billion eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland […]
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