Author: Jeff

• December 19, 2011Cartography, Cool Stuff, general

  What people do with maps in the era of GPS and Web Maps

  In the era of GPS and Web Mapping you might think that paper(physical, concrete things you hold in your hands) maps are on their way out. I don’t necessarily agree, […]

• December 12, 2011Cool Stuff, general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial), WebMapping

  Conserving the Night Sky

  Is your portion of the night sky polluted by artificial light?  Check out this really slick Google Map interface I found on the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) web site . […]

• December 8, 2011Cartography, general

  Holiday Gift Idea for Your Favorite Cartographer – Typographic Topography

  Axis Maps presents a series of maps where all of the features, be they roads, rivers, rails, etc… are converted to text. At a distance it appears to be a […]

• July 12, 2011Data, ESRIUC, GIS_Software, Remote Sensing

  ESRI UC 2011 – Jeff’s First Exposition Hall Tour

  On Tuesday at the ESRI UC I spent the majority of my day wandering through the many tables and displays set up in the exposition hall.   At first I […]

• July 9, 2011Cool Stuff, Education, ESRIUC, Events, WebMapping

  ESRI EDuc Plenary Session – ArcGIS Online Improvements

  At the ESRI Education User Conference Plenary this morning a few things struck me as significant for GIS use in the classroom.  Bern Szukalski reviewed some of the ArcGIS.com revisions […]

• June 24, 2011Cartography, Cool Stuff, ESRIUC, Events

  Must – Have – Coffee!

  Where you live might decide where you get your AM cup of joe (unless you get your fix from a local favorite).  Numbers Run has a neat series of maps […]

• May 29, 2011AugmentedReality, Cartography, Cool Stuff, Education, general, Human Geography

  Animated Maps on Memorial Day Weekend

  On this memorial day weekend the History Channel is kicking off a week of Civil War themed shows.  While watching I thought I’d see if there were any interesting maps […]

• April 27, 2011Education, General, Human Geography

  On The Line

  I’ve been fortunate enough to look over the shoulders of  a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education.  The project […]

• February 17, 2011Data

  Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium Releases 2006 National Land Cover Data

  The USGS has released National Land Cover Data (NLCD) for 2006 marking a new 5 year interval of data release as opposed to the previous 10 year cycle.  The data […]