Cartography
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Cartography, Education, ESRIUC, general, GeographyAwareness, Navigation, Remote Sensing, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping
GIS DAY 15th Anniversary: Take the way back machine
Take the way back machine to the first GIS Day in Spring of 1999. ESRI ARC News Online announced GIS Day 1999 Slated for November! According to the press release, ESRI […]
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Cartography, Education, general, Human Geography, Political Geography, WebMapping
Maps and U.S. (Mid-Term) Elections
Each year the number of media sources using interactive election maps increases, from search engines like Bing Elections to newspapers of record like the New York Times Elections 2014, to public television […]
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Cartography, Environmental, Remote Sensing, Software
NASA, Big Data, and a Real World Jigsaw Puzzle
NASA has posted two news items that illustrate the large amounts of data that they are generating. NASA| The Data Downpour is a video describing how the GPM constellation turns […]
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Cartography, Education, Human Geography
Participate in a cartographic art project: Tweeting the NYCTA Graphics Standards
Massimo Vignelli continues to inspire cartographers, graphic designers, and artists with his New York City Transit Authority map standards. Artists, Niko Skourtis, Jesse Reed, and Hamish Smyth found a first […]
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Cartography, Education, Human Geography, Physical Geography
Nautical Miles: From Darwin to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The diaries from sea voyages are thrilling, especially those that study marine biology. From the first entry setting down the base coordinates to later entries listing nautical miles traveled. Although […]
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Cartography, Data, Human Geography, Political Geography, WebMapping
When to Use an Interactive Map
The Washington Post’s Wonkblog article, “10 Maps that show how much time Americans spend grooming, eating, thinking, and praying” presents some crisp maps using data from the United States Department of Labor, […]
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Calling all cartographers and map-lovers: A request for Massimo Vignelli
Massimo Vignelli, the Italian graphic designer who created the famous helvetica subway maps of New York City and Washington D.C, train stations in Italy, and other pared down cartographic designs, is gravely […]
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The Ordnance Survey and John Betjeman
The Guardian this week has a nostalgic reflection by Rachel Hewitt asking if this is “The end of the road for Ordnance Survey? Ordnance Survey paper maps are under threat from […]
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Cartography, Education, Human Geography
The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America
Maps and Music are both powerful and together they can convey very complex emotions in a short span of time. The U.S. Library of Congress spent more than two years […]
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Cartography, Data, GIS_Software, space (not spatial)
The Geospatial Community and Public Interest Declassification Board
The National Archives Blog, Transforming Classification: Blog of the Public Interest Declassification Board recently asked different listservs – “What records should the US Government prioritize for declassification?” They took suggestions […]
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