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• January 6, 2014General, WebMapping

  Why OpenStreet Map Matters

  I really liked this essay by Serge Wroclawski on why OpenStreet Map matters, which I found through the Gizmodo reprint. To be honest it doesn’t exactly say anything ground breaking […]

• June 4, 2013AVSRT, Feature, General

  A Very Spatial Road Trip: Across the US – Pre-planning

  Howdy everyone!  We’re beginning the hard planning push for A Very Spatial Road Trip: Across the US!  Barb and I are excited to take our road trip across the US […]

• March 19, 2013General, Human Geography

  Map of NCAA Affiliation

  In honor of March Madness, Gizmodo has a series of NCAA college basketball affiliation as measured by Facebook likes. So if you’re into college basketball and into maps, you’ll really […]

• January 29, 2013General

  John Snow Meme

  I humbly submit to the geography faithful these two memes I just created EDITED: One of our readers, Catholicgauze as he likes to be called, has crafted this in response. […]

• December 14, 2012General, space (not spatial)

  Moon’s Gravity Mapped To The Micron

  Gizmodo has a really cool article about NASA’s attempts to map the moon’s odd gravity down to the micron. Two orbiters around the moon are part of the GRAIL program […]

• November 6, 2012General, Political Geography

  Why Red States Are Red And Blue States Are Blue

  Has anyone else given this a lot of thought? Why does red = Republican and blue = Democrat in the US? Would it surprise you to find out that convention […]

• November 5, 2012General, Physical Geography

  Sandy Explained

  NASA has given a great explanation of how and why Sandy behaved the way it did. Score several for remote sensing, climate science, and meteorology! Via Gizmodo

• November 1, 2012General, Human Geography, WebMapping

  Google Adds Amber Alerts to Maps and Search Results

  Google has started adding Amber Alerts to its map and search results. They’re doing this through a partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Basically, they’re combining […]

• October 22, 2012General, Human Geography, Physical Geography, Political Geography

  Scientists Convicted of Manslaughter for Failing To Predict Earthquake

  We’ve been following this news item for some time, and I have to say I, for one, never dreamed these scientists would be convicted. An Italian judge has decided six […]

• October 9, 2012General, WebMapping

  Clever Google Maps Manipulations by Christoph Niemann

  Anyone who spends more than an hour around me knows I like clever word manipulations. Yep, I find them punny. Christoph Niemann has just taken this to a whole new […]