Author: Sue

June 29, 2006Data, general, Physical Geography, WebMapping

MesoStor – Online GIS data delivery system for Central America

I was going through my Caribbean GIS listserv alerts, and I noticed one about MesoStor, a project to make GIS data about Mesoamerica available online. MesoStor is part of SERVIR, […]
June 28, 2006general, General

Texas Redistricting Decision – Legislators can redraw maps whenever they like

Well, the Supreme Court decision on the case of the Texas congressional re-districting map is in and, while there was a small victory for Democrats and minority voters, the real […]
June 28, 2006Events, general

50th Anniversary of the creation of the US Interstate Highway system

Tomorrow, June 29th, will be the 50th anniversary of the signing of the bill that created the US interstate highway system. An article at MSNBC today has a nice little […]
June 27, 2006general, Human Geography, VirtualEnvironments

Urban Planning – Sim City style

BBC News has a nice article about MetroQuest, a software application that uses a Sim City-like visual interface to allow users to model how urban planning decisions might affect the […]
June 24, 2006general, Human Geography, WebMapping

The Bio Mapping Project

The Bio Mapping project is an example of creative research that seeks to combine information gather about our bodies’ measurable responses to the world around us, and how those responses […]
June 23, 2006general, WebMapping

GeoPortail apparently a work in progress

I checked out the newly launched French GeoPortail, which made the news at CNN today, and was mentioned on OgleEarth and Anything Geospatial. It is at this point just a […]
June 23, 2006Data, Events, general

ArcPad and mobile handhelds for 2010 US Census field data collection

A press release today announced that ESRI’s ArcPad will be used as part of the Field Data Collection Automation (FDCA) project for the upcoming 2010 census, and Harris Corporation has […]
June 22, 2006general, Human Geography

Geographer Ken Martis discusses the political geography of US elections

This morning, I saw an article at the Detroit Free Press website about one of our own faculty here at WVU and, of course I just had to post about […]
June 21, 2006Events, general, space (not spatial)

Serenity Movie Charity Screenings

Ok, technically not geography, but it’s been awhile since we’ve blogged anything about Joss Whedon’s Firefly universe, so I am remedying that now. Serenity fans have set up a worldwide […]
June 17, 2006general, LBS, Navigation

Satellite Navigation for the visually impaired

ESA News has a really interesting article about a prototype satellite navigation system for the visually impaired that was successfully tested in Madrid, Spain. The system uses a mobile phone […]