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The Most Popular Cars in Each State
The cartography kinda sucks, but this map on Jalopnik.com is pretty cool. It details the most popular new cars by state. As you can see, most of the US is […]
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Airport GIS
This July it is likely that more of the passengers arriving at San Diego International Airport are asking themselves, “How geospatial is this airport?” than at any other time of year. […]
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general, Space between my ears
Space Between My Ears – The Geography of Cars
I love cars. I’m a proper gear head, or petrol head if you’re in the UK. Each and every year, I eagerly gobble up all the new cars news from […]
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Cartography, general, Political Geography, WebMapping
The Apostrophe’s Last Stand
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting, spatially relevant article on regulation and standardization of place names and the disappearing apostrophe in U.S. signage, “Theres a Question Mark Hanging Over […]
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The Best Geographic Visualization I’ve Seen In Ages
It’s all well and good you can rattle off that most of the worlds population is in Southeast Asia. However, conceptualizing that is sometimes really challenging. It’s almost too abstract. […]
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Cartography, general, Human Geography
U.S. Taxes and GIS
April 15, 2013 is Tax Day in the U.S. when state and federal taxes are due to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or state tax offices. By it’s very nature, […]
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Cartography, Education, general, Remote Sensing, Software
The ZSL London Zoo
The ZSL London Zoo‘s annual census of every zoo animal as part of their zoo license renewal is an example of how to turn a seemingly routine geospatial task into international […]
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general, Physical Geography, Political Geography
Free Geography Books
I recently got an Ipad Mini and started to look for free books to download from Kindle, Google, Project Gutenberg, and the many other free resources that are available online. Once […]
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Cartography, Education, general
Last year for the Hallmark Geography Teacher Barbie Ornament
I was told by my local Hallmark Store that this is the last year that Hallmark will be making the Barbie series of ornaments including the Geography Teacher Barbie Ornament. […]
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