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• October 23, 2006general, General

  Largest Image on the Web?

  This site has a nice photographic representation of The Parete Gaudenziana. So nice, to properly represent it, they decided to go with a 8.6 Gigapixel image! Of course, the Gigapixel […]

• October 23, 2006General, general

  We will rock you (planetary)

  There is an article in CNN today about Brian May from Queen. “He gave up his PHD studies in interplanetary dust to help form Queen but now, almost four decades […]

• October 19, 2006general, General

  Fun map things you find when meandering the web

  While doing research for something else I ran across some interesting sites that compare different countries. The first is Nationmaster which is “a massive central data source and a handy […]

• October 18, 2006general, General

  BBC NEWS | US shows signs of net addiction

  1 out of 8 folks in the US apparently shows signs of net addiction. Only 1 of 8…I don’t know at least 3 of those people. I guess I am […]

• October 17, 2006general, General

  Can you pass the third grade?

  This is an old but fun flash map of the United States that gives you a timed test to fill in the map. Its a little touchy how you drag […]

• October 17, 2006General, general

  BBC NEWS | The map gap

  I am not sure if this has made the rounds yet, but the BBC has an article that talks about…wait for it…PROJECTIONS. It starts off as human interest piece about […]

• October 16, 2006Cartography, general, General

  Springfield Map

  Have you ever sat watching “The Simpsons” and think, “Hey, I wonder how far Homer has to travel to get to the power plant? Or Moe’s even?” Well now you […]

• October 11, 2006general, General

  English Russia » Keyboard Monument

  Perhaps a Russian lawn decoration in the shape of a QWERTY keyboard will be the next ‘can you find it’ on Google Earth. I didn’t see a location for the […]

• October 8, 2006general, General

  Wild Wonderful West Virginia

  I was looking up information about state parks for wv and found that they are participating in geocaching. I am sure other state parks are doing this as well. What […]

• October 6, 2006general, General

  Google Earth T-Shirt

  I acquired a Google Earth T at the geoblogger meet-up at the ESRIUC. I wore said t-shirt today on a trip up to Pittsburgh (just to get out of Morgantown) […]