Author: Frank

• January 19, 2006General

  Why you should clearly mark your geocache!

  This story on CNN demostrates why you need to clearly mark a geocache as such. From the article, “In June, a bomb squad in De Pere, Wisconsin, used a robot-mounted […]

• January 17, 2006General

  IP Address to Location

  The Link has been corrected now!  Sorry for any confusion.  While there are a few tools out there to do this sort of thing, I thought this one was a […]

• January 10, 2006General

  Do Geographers Need More Sleep?

  Here’s an interesting article about the effects of sleep deprivation. The interesting note is that sleep deprivation appears to most aversely affect spatial learning and spatial tasks! So if you’re […]

• December 29, 2005General

  Sometimes you just gotta get out and drive it…

  Here’s an interesting article in Wired about keeping all of these online GIS databases fresh. As they point out, sometimes you just have to send someone out to drive the […]

• December 20, 2005GIS_Software, Groups, Remote Sensing

  States wary of Google’s Bird’s Eye View

  Although this has been blogged in one form or the other several times over the last few months, I think it’s an increasingly pressing issue. States are having real problems […]

• December 2, 2005Cartography

  Mapping the London Underground based on time, not distance

  A student in the UK has mapped the London Tube system using time as his base of measure, not distance. While his approach isn’t exactly novel, it is interesting, especially […]

• December 2, 2005General

  TrafficView Project

  The University of Maryland has an interesting concept for traffic monitoring and mapping – peer-to-peer traffic monitoring! The idea is that cars will be equpied with devices which can communicate […]

• November 18, 2005WebMapping

  Sony’s DRM Damage Mapped

  Sony stepped into all sorts of trouble with thier copy protection scheme on CDs. Although they claim the damage is minimal, the folks over at Doxpara Research claim otherwise. Since […]

• November 7, 2005General

  Goin’ Mobile!

  Google local is going mobile! You can now download google maps to your cellphone, if you’ve got the right service. And phone. And location. And are willing to shell the […]

• October 21, 2005General

  A different kind of “map”

  While not really spatial, I thought Music Plasma was an interesing application for graphically showing relationships for data points. In this case, they’re pulling data from Amazon’s databases to show […]