Author: Frank

• February 22, 2006Cartography, General, WebMapping

  Geographic Center of Google Maps is….

  …Kristine Crispel’s horse farm outside Coffeyville, Kansas! Ok, it’s a fluff piece, but it’s a cute fluff piece. Via Wired.

• February 21, 2006General, Navigation

  GPS and Driving Doesn’t Mix

  From Engadget. Apparently if you’re in your car and you’re interested in safety, ’tis better to go old school paper maps than these newfangled GPS units! What happens when we […]

• February 16, 2006General, VirtualEnvironments

  Google Earth Changing the Way Scientists Collaborate

  A pretty interesting article in Nature.com talks about how free tools like Google Earth are changing the way scientists collaborate on projects. The best quote comes from Michael Goodchild when […]

• February 16, 2006General, WebMapping

  Real Time Mapping with Google maps

  This is one of the cooler uses of Google Maps. The DARTmaps Project shows the real time movement of trains on train tracks in Dublin. While you can watch the […]

• February 5, 2006General

  Spidy Tracer for real

  Anyone who has followed Spiderman knows about the Spidy Tracer – a device that Spiderman can throw at his enemies which allows him to trace bad guys wherever they go. […]

• February 2, 2006General

  New Location Based Services in Japan

  A company called Mapion has launched a new service that lets phone users point at a building, click, and find out what’s in that building.  If your phone is GPS […]

• January 31, 2006General

  World Of Warcraft Google Map

  I’ve mentioned on the podcast my interest in virtual worlds and gaming worlds in particular.  Here’s a google map that details the World of Warcraft atlas.  They’ve actually attributed the […]

• January 25, 2006space (not spatial)

  Most Earth-like Planet Detected

  Continuing last week’s podcast “space theme”, CNN has this story about astronomers using new techniques to discover the most Earth-like planet found yet. From the story, “an international team has […]

• January 25, 2006Cartography, Human Geography

  Maps for illegal immigration

  A Mexican government funded commission is moving to distribute 70,000 maps to aid people trying to cross into the US. They will feature water cache locations, show transportation routes, and […]

• January 20, 2006General

  Mapping Video Games

  I personally find virtual worlds mapping an interesting niche in the mapping world.  Most world builders have no real training in any sort of geographic principles, so I find it […]