Author: Barb

• October 8, 2009general, GeographyAwareness

  New Jersey is to Clerks as Idaho is to….

  I was looking up some old movies online and found tons of fun information on movies and their associated landmarks or states. Rotten Tomatoes has a fun “50 Movies for […]

• September 22, 2009general

  WWII Escape Maps, Monopoly, and Ebay

  ABC News has a revisited the story of escape maps and tools hidden inside Monopoly games during WWII. According to the article, “The British secret service conspired with the U.K. […]

• September 20, 2009general

  Halloween Mapping Action

  There are several sites on-line where people have set up controllable Halloween decorations for various causes. Alek’s Halloween site is a little crowded but that’s part of its charm. He’s […]

• September 16, 2009general

  A Spatial Public Art

  If you haven’t seen it already. Apartment Therapy has a post about a Dutch artist who has created real life “dead pixels” that show up on Google Earth. It is […]

• September 14, 2009general

  Candy O Vision

  Whenever Holloween starts to come around, I always think about geography and candy. The world in a candy bar map , such as the one from Indiana and Purdue, is […]

• September 11, 2009general

  The home of the tomorrow…. today.

  Whenever I see articles like the one about a smart IBM guy who uses Twitter to control his house functions, it makes me think of those old Tex Avery cartoons […]

• August 23, 2009general

  GIS in Disneyworld

  The Disney Universe is a pretty elaborate one and one of the ways they keep it running is GIS. Some of the current job openings include is a civil engineering […]

• August 22, 2009general

  Walking in Circles again

  An article in the U.K. Dailymail covers current research about why people walk in circles when they get lost. Although I am sure that it was written with tongue in […]

• August 7, 2009general

  Subway Maps: How Do I Love Thee?

  TreeHugger has linked to a slideshow of what they consider the world’s most interesting subway maps. It provides a good visual history of the development of the subway map and […]

• July 14, 2009general

  Social & Environmental Sustainability

  I just went to a great ESRI session on social & environmental sustainability where researchers in areas as diverse as homelessness and toxic waste, asked the age old question of […]