Author: Barb

• December 19, 2010Data, Education, Environmental, Physical Geography

  National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  In 2008, Sue posted about the U.S. Department of Energy‘s National Renewable Energy Laboratory Atlas that was in development. I ran across the completed NREL FTP site with geospatial toolkits […]

• December 16, 2010general, VirtualWorlds

  Cheap Thrills and Virtual Reality

  By now, almost everyone has seen the cool You Tube video of the Japanese students fake skydiving using a projector and Google Earth. However, all the posts and comments focus […]

• December 9, 2010general

  New York Times: At this time and place

  The New-York Historical Society (N-YHS) is attempting to document Times Square at this moment and time and space by requesting photos from anyone in the public. According to the NY […]

• December 5, 2010Physical Geography, space (not spatial)

  Pluto, revisited

  The news that NASA discovered a new type of microorganism has overshadowed new findings on Pluto. The Christian Science Monitor presents both sides of the debate, “Should Pluto be Restored […]

• November 30, 2010general

  Day 2: Sneaky Geography Gifts

  There are some cool GEOGRAPHY gifts like map jigsaw puzzles, cool Harry Potter marauder map pillows, or antique maps and reproductions. Then there are some gifts that scream, YOU like […]

• November 26, 2010general

  Old Map Making Shortcuts Still Used Today

  Map making used to be an arduous, time-consuming, and often dangerous process. Although modern map-making is often still an arduous, time-consuming, and in some instances, dangerous process, new technologies are […]

• November 24, 2010General

  Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and GIS

  Fifty million people are expected to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade tomorrow. If you can’t be there in person, you can join the on-line Thanksgiving Day Parade community and […]

• November 18, 2010general

  Save a (Geography Related) Word

  The Oxford Dictionary is launching a campaign to save words that are being dropped from the English Language. According to their website, 90% of everything we write is communicated by […]

• November 15, 2010general

  The music of geography

  One of my favorite geography related songs is “Yakko’s World” from the Animaniacs Cartoon Series. When I went to find they lyrics recently, I was surprised to find that there […]

• November 11, 2010general

  Virtual Veteran’s Sites

  The Guardian UK interviews volunteers and family members who have used an digital library of war graves around the world in their article, “How to visit a virtual grave: A […]