Author: Frank

• October 23, 2006general, General

  Largest Image on the Web?

  This site has a nice photographic representation of The Parete Gaudenziana. So nice, to properly represent it, they decided to go with a 8.6 Gigapixel image! Of course, the Gigapixel […]

• October 16, 2006Cartography, General, general

  Springfield Map

  Have you ever sat watching “The Simpsons” and think, “Hey, I wonder how far Homer has to travel to get to the power plant? Or Moe’s even?” Well now you […]

• October 10, 2006general, WebMapping

  Map of the Key 2006 US Political Races

  MSNBC has a pretty nice google map of the key political races of 2006 for the US. If you want to learn where the really contentious House, Senate, and Gubernatorial […]

• October 8, 2006general, WebMapping

  50 States in 50 Days

  No, it isn’t the title of a country tune, it’s the challenge of two guys in Albany New York. They’re fixin’ (to continue the country tune theme) to hitch hike […]

• October 5, 2006general, Human Geography

  300,000,000 Served

  An interesting milestone is about to happen in the US. Somewhere on or about October 17th, the US population will have surpased 300,000,000 people. The US is the third most […]

• October 4, 2006Cartography, general, Human Geography

  5,000 Years of Rule in the Middle East

  With the Iraq war very current for the US, especially in the media, it sometimes helps to take a bit of an historical view of the region. Simply put, the […]

• September 27, 2006general, WebMapping

  NYC Subway By Smell

  The sense with the greatest memory is said to be your sense of smell. A mere whiff of something can take you back decades. Unfortunately, there haven’t been too many […]

• September 25, 2006general, Human Geography

  What was Churchill’s Phone Number Again?

  I don’t know, but now I can find out. The UK is continuing their trend of putting old stuff up online by placing 100 years of telephone books online. The […]

• September 22, 2006general, WebMapping

  Way Cool Web Mapping Application

  The National Geographic has their new Map Machine web mapping service up and online. Since it’s put together by ESRI, it’s a safe bet they used some combination of ArcIMS […]

• September 21, 2006general, Physical Geography

  $3billion For Global Warming

  Sir Richard Branson has promised all profits from his travel companies to combat global warming. The anouncement was made at former President Clinton’s Global Initiative. The money is supposed to […]