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General, GeographyAwareness, Remote Sensing, WebMapping
Panoramic View of Angel Falls, Venezuela
We’ve featured AirPano before on the site, but a set they’ve put up just took my breath away. They have a wonderful 360 degree air panoramic of Angel Falls in Venezuela. You […]
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Foo Fighters Rock The Planet
Nice try Scorpions. Not good enough. The Foo Fighters ACTUALLY rocked us WITH earthquakes! Real, honest to goodness earthquakes! The band took the stage in New Zealand after Tenacious D […]
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Gall-Peters just doesn’t get any love
What Your Favorite Map Projection Says About You… don’t forget to read the info tag by hovering over the image! From the always hilarious xkcd.com
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How Long Is A Piece Of String?
It’s amazing what you can find if you slow down when you’re flipping through the channels. The other day I happened to stop at PBS and caught this wonderful documentary, […]
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And Another Great Tech Pioneer Leaves Us
The news around the Internet today is that Dennis Ritchie, inventor of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system, passed away over the weekend. I think it’s a […]
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A Story As A Map
I’m a pretty big fan boy of Wil Wheaton (although I still hate Wesley Crusher – SHUT UP Wesley!) I’ve never had a situation when the Venn diagram of my […]
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The Zombie Map of the World
In the spirit of putting up maps this week, The Guardian has an article about a fun Zombie Map of the World created by the Oxford University’s Internet Institute. Class3Outbreak […]
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Cool Stuff, General, Human Geography
Transportation… OF THE FUTURE!
If you’ve ever heard me chatting with Elvin of the ArcPad team, you’ll know that I can wax poetic about cars almost more easily than I can about GIS. I […]
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XKCD Gets It Right Again
AND makes me feel like a slacker… If the artist wasn’t so great at this comic, I’d say he should become a geographer 😉
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Kansas Flatter Than A Pancake
Don’t let anyone tell you that geographers aren’t cool! A group of three geographers from Texas State University and Arizona State University decided to test the old adage, “Kansas is […]
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