Cartography

• November 19, 2014Cartography, 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 […]

• November 4, 2014Cartography, 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 […]

• September 6, 2014Cartography, 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 […]

• August 17, 2014Cartography, 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 […]

• July 19, 2014Cartography, 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 […]

• June 21, 2014Cartography, 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, […]

• May 11, 2014Cartography

  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 […]

• April 20, 2014Cartography, WebMapping

  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 […]

• February 6, 2014Cartography, 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 […]

• January 22, 2014Cartography, 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 […]