Author: Sue

• November 8, 2005Education

  GeographyZone

  Yesterday MSNBC.com featured a profile of GeographyZone, a website started by Roger Andreson that features puzzles, games and other educational resources to promote geography awareness. Although the site is not […]

• November 8, 2005WebMapping

  RISK for Google Maps

  That’s right, a Google Maps mash-up of that classic of strategy games, RISK. Check it out here Via Digg.com

• November 7, 2005WebMapping

  Online mapping from the data gatherers’ perspective

  I just finished an article on CNET.com by Elinor Mills that poses the all-important question – why are the route directions and locations often inaccurate. She posed this question to […]

• November 4, 2005General

  Online Book Initiatives

  As many of you probably already know, a number of projects have been underway to digitize books and make them available online. Google’s effort has probably generated the most recent […]

• November 4, 2005General

  MIT project maps wireless use on campus in real-time

  Researchers at MIT are utilizing the university’s newly upgraded wireless network to track wireless use on campus. They have developed electronic maps that track use across the campus, not only […]

• November 3, 2005WebMapping

  Yahoo Maps Beta

  As Jesse noted in a post yesterday, Yahoo has redesigned its online mapping interface and added functionality to try to compete with Google Maps. It is currently in beta, and […]

• November 3, 2005VirtualEnvironments

  NVIDIA Immersive Dome Experience

  Check out these pictures of NVIDIA’s Immersive Dome Experience at SIGGRAPH2005. Now that’s 3D visualization! Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne did some cool visualization experiments using FAA flight pattern data […]

• November 3, 2005Cartography

  CartoTalk

  After our podcast episode on cartography, John Krygier emailed us, and mentioned that CartoTalk might be a good resource for people interested in cartography and map design. It is a […]

• November 2, 2005GeographyBlogs, WebMapping

  Trends blog does a roundup of 3D

  I stumbled across the Trends blog (by R. Banks) while I doing some searches on 3D visualization, and found a nice roundup titled “3D. What is it Good for?”, which […]

• November 1, 2005GIS_Software

  Intergraph adding 3D visualization to GeoMedia

  Intergraph announced that they will be integrating Skyline Software System’s 3D visualization technology into their GeoMedia product line. It seems that Skyline’s visualization functionality will be embedded directly into the […]