Author: Frank
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Space between my ears: You Have To Be Flexible
For the last few years, I’ve been doing all my interactive mapping development using ESRI’s Flex API. If you know me really well, you’d realize that’s a pretty big deal. […]
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John Snow Meme
I humbly submit to the geography faithful these two memes I just created EDITED: One of our readers, Catholicgauze as he likes to be called, has crafted this in response. […]
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The Geography of Abortion Access in the US
Obviously abortion is a hot button topic in the United States. It has become even more so with the recent passing of the 40th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. […]
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Moon’s Gravity Mapped To The Micron
Gizmodo has a really cool article about NASA’s attempts to map the moon’s odd gravity down to the micron. Two orbiters around the moon are part of the GRAIL program […]
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Why Red States Are Red And Blue States Are Blue
Has anyone else given this a lot of thought? Why does red = Republican and blue = Democrat in the US? Would it surprise you to find out that convention […]
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Sandy Explained
NASA has given a great explanation of how and why Sandy behaved the way it did. Score several for remote sensing, climate science, and meteorology! Via Gizmodo
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General, Human Geography, WebMapping
Google Adds Amber Alerts to Maps and Search Results
Google has started adding Amber Alerts to its map and search results. They’re doing this through a partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Basically, they’re combining […]
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General, Human Geography, Physical Geography, Political Geography
Scientists Convicted of Manslaughter for Failing To Predict Earthquake
We’ve been following this news item for some time, and I have to say I, for one, never dreamed these scientists would be convicted. An Italian judge has decided six […]
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Clever Google Maps Manipulations by Christoph Niemann
Anyone who spends more than an hour around me knows I like clever word manipulations. Yep, I find them punny. Christoph Niemann has just taken this to a whole new […]
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