Author: Sue

October 25, 2006general, WebMapping

Wired News on Web 2.0, mashups, and revitalizing democracy

Over at Wired News, Jennifer Granick has a nice article on how Web 2.0 apps, including mashups and online mapping, can help us get back to the essence of democratic […]
October 24, 2006general, LBS

UK town tests Augmented Reality system for local planning

The town of Burnley Wood in the UK has become a test bed for a new system that will help local residents visualize how proposed development will change what their […]
October 20, 2006general, LBS, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

National Geographic’s Digital Places Special News Series

If you haven’t read them already, you should definitely check out the articles in National Geographic’s Digital Places Special News Series. They cover topics relating to Second Life, to mobile […]
October 17, 2006Cartography, Education, general

Zoom Into Maps- nice Library of Congress educational site

Zoom Into Maps is a nice educational tool for an introduction to historic maps and the Library of Congress’ digital map collections. There are digital images of maps on various […]
October 16, 2006general, space (not spatial)

Amazing panorama images of Saturn and its rings from Cassini spacecraft

Yeah, these are some of the coolest space images I’ve ever seen! The panoramic view of Saturn and its rings was created by combining a total of 165 images taken […]
October 16, 2006Cartography, general

Digital copies of US federal land patents and survey plats

Back at the end of August, the US Bureau of Land Management’s General Land Office website made some of its survey plat collection available online as searchable images that can […]
October 15, 2006Cartography, general

US Population Statistics – Interactive Map

MSNBC has an interactive map with some stats on US population, including information about individual state population figures, population change, and population density. Along the bottom of the map window, […]
October 12, 2006general, WebMapping

NYC Mayor’s Film Office – Mapping

The New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting is celebrating it 40th anniversary with a Yahoo! Maps mashup of locations in NYC that have been used in […]
October 11, 2006general, LBS

SLAM – Microsoft’s foray into mobile social networking

Microsoft has a new prototype mobile application called Slam (Social, Location, Annotation, Mobile) that lets users send messages and photos back and forth to members of a group, or “slam” […]
October 5, 2006general, WebMapping

Gothamist Maps – a little too real

Gothamist Labs has a GoogleMaps mashup of near real-time incident data from NewYork City called Gothamist Maps, using emergency call data. I spent a few minute just looking the calls […]