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• April 10, 2006general, General, Human Geography, Physical Geography

  California Car Culture Could Heighten Earthquake Woes

  Sorry for the excessive alliteration there, but it sums up this article quite nicely, I think. It appears that the infrastructure that surrounds car ownership does more than generate excessive […]

• April 10, 2006general, General

  US Federal Government Geospatial Line of Business

  The US federal government’s GSA and OMB are seeking input from the geospatial industry to help them establish the Geospatial Line of Business across all government agencies. They are looking […]

• April 6, 2006general, General

  Maxim Magazine Tries to Advertise on Google Earth

  Warning: Image slightly risque! Maxim Magazine has created a 75-by-110-foot billboard to celebrate its 100th issue. It features a cover image of Eva Longoria rather scantily dressed. What is interesting […]

• April 6, 2006general, General, Human Geography

  Gospel of Judas Found

  This is rather off the beat and path from our normal news, but I thought it was interesting given the National Geographic Society’s involvement. Apparently a National Geographic Society expedition […]

• March 28, 2006general, General

  An Imaginary City in Detail

  This is kind of off the beat from normal geography stuff, but this guy in France who is 28 and is autistic has created a detailed city named Urville from […]

• March 25, 2006general, General, WebMapping

  Mapping the North American Internet backbone

  Ben Worthen, a writer for CIO.com and Bill Cheswick, a chief scientist at Lumeta, collaborated on this map(PDF), which shows who owns all of the routers that handle North American […]

• March 24, 2006general, General, Programming/Dev

  Windows Live Developer Center launches

  Microsoft has unveiled their Windows Live Developer Center, which offers APIs, resources and documentation for developers who want to write applications that connect to Microsoft services. Of course, Virtual Earth […]

• March 22, 2006general, General

  27 US Federal Agencies to add Geospatial Official

  Earlier this month, FederalNews Online reported that the US Office of Management and Budget is requiring 27 federal agencies to designate a senior official to oversee those agencies’ effort related […]

• March 16, 2006General

  Near Real Time Tracking of the Stars

  No, not the celestial type… movie stars! You can track movie stars in near real-time via a Google Map. While on the surface this might appear to be a normal […]

• March 13, 2006General, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial), WebMapping

  Google Mars!

  Way cool for space nuts out there like me…. Google Mars!  It’s just like Google Local, except with data from Mars.  There’s a nice elevation dataset and some interesting visible […]