Author: Barb

• January 15, 2010general

  Geography of Religion

  I just came out of a very interesting dissertation defense on emergence and the geograpy of religion. One of the most interesting was the Glenmary Research Center data which is […]

• January 9, 2010general

  Vatican Microfilm Library

  It’s not THE VATICAN but ruminate on how much geospatial data must be stored in The Vatican Microfilm Library and Pius XII Library in St. Louis that house the largest […]

• December 30, 2009general

  Creating a Space Faring Civilization

  The Earth and Space Foundation has an awesome but low funded award program to “funds expeditions that either use Earth’s resources and environments to help us understand other worlds and […]

• December 28, 2009general

  Climate Change and the World Wide Web

  TreeHugger posted about the 300 Years of global climate change on one map. The best quote is “”In late 2009 the UK Government launched an Open Data initiative, headed by […]

• December 21, 2009general

  Geography Tropes

  TV Tropes is a great wiki that catalogs all the tropes inherent in media, literature, and games. They have several geovisual subjects including television geography such as “Julie Delpy and […]

• December 17, 2009Education, Human Geography

  Does GIS Make Kids Gullible?

  I just read a weird article about “Some Ways to Make Children Think Santa Exists” that includes children follow Santa’s journey on Norad all the way up to a voice […]

• December 15, 2009Cartography, Education, Physical Geography

  British Geological Survey Maps

  The British Geological Survey, the world’s oldest national geological survey, is offering GEOSCIENCE, a free service for sharing geospatial information including maps, 3D maps, and photographs. The GEOSCENIC is really […]

• December 12, 2009general

  My Head is a Map and other things

  If you’re looking for map related gifts this year, one of the most extensive I’ve found is rare maps. You can search for maps by state or type. They even […]

• December 6, 2009general

  Well That Was Quick: MIT wins DARPA Challenge

  According to CNN, MIT has won Darpa’s Balloon Challenge. Darpa released the coordinates yesterday. They were the first to locate 10 weather balloon locations in the U.S. by promising to […]

• December 6, 2009general, GeographyAwareness

  Geographic Wills

  According to the BBC, Eric Gordon Douglas from Edinburgh left nearly £11,000 for 20 towns around the world that share his surname. The Herald Scotland states that no one knows […]