Author: Barb

• December 20, 2013Remote 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 […]

• December 17, 2013Education, Events, GeographyBlogs, Human Geography, Social Networking

  United Nation’s International Migrants Day and GIS

  December 18th is the United Nation’s International Migrants Day to recognize the efforts, contributions, and rights of migrants worldwide.  Migrant workers and migration has had a natural fit with geography […]

• December 2, 2013ESRIUC, 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 […]

• November 20, 2013Events, 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 […]

• November 1, 2013Human 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 […]

• October 30, 2013Environmental, 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 […]

• October 24, 2013general, 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 […]

• October 18, 2013Remote Sensing

  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 […]

• September 20, 2013general, Human Geography, Political Geography

  Meta-Data, Locality, and WV-Gate

  This past week, Democrat Natalie Tennant announced her run for Senate and it was covered by the Washington Post, “Natalie Tennant Officially Launches Senate Campaign in West Virginia“. However, the […]

• September 5, 2013VirtualEnvironments, 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 […]