WebMapping

May 3, 2008general, Software, WebMapping

IBM’s Many Eyes collaborative visualization tools

IBM has a cool project now in beta called Many Eyes, which was developed by their Collaborative User Experience‘s Visual Communication Lab. Many Eyes is a set of visualization tools […]
April 30, 2008general, LBS, WebMapping

BrightKite – social location web app

I have started taking a tour of some of the location based social apps that are out there since I haven’t had time to write code myself. The first one […]
April 21, 2008general, WebMapping

Google Geo Developer series on YouTube

The folks over at the Official Google Maps API Blog have provided links to the YouTube versions of each of the seven the Google Geo Developer series. If you are […]
April 17, 2008general, Human Geography, WebMapping

WikiCrimes, Brazil’s police alternative

Just coming off a session where we were talking about how user generated content can offer great advantages to local communities it was interesting to read this article which talks […]
April 17, 2008general, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Physical Geography, WebMapping

What Are You Doing for EarthDay? Google Wants to Know!

Google has put up an interactive Google Map where you can share Earth events and ideas with people around the world. It’s a fairly basic site, but there are some […]
April 15, 2008general, Human Geography, Remote Sensing, WebMapping

A Remote Tribe Goes High Tech With Google

The Surui people, who have been so remote in the Brazilian forests that they were only ‘discovered’ in 1969, have turned to the high tech tools of Google Earth to […]
April 5, 2008General, general, Human Geography, WebMapping

Nonprime Mortgage Maps

As geographers, I know everyone out there is thinking, “I get the the home buying industry in the US is imploding like a black hole, but I still am having […]
March 6, 2008general, WebMapping

The Atlas of Early Printing

I am feverishly working to get my dissertation proposal finished, and while reading Hamlet on the Holodeck (a great book, by the way), I jumped online to look a couple […]
March 4, 2008general, WebMapping

Simply brilliant

Ever wondered what would happen if Google Streetview was taken to the next level. But what is it? Is it Immersive Technologies…or ‘the Google.’ Fingers crossed for a sequel. Cheers […]
February 27, 2008general, GIS_Software, Physical Geography, WebMapping

US Atlas of Renewable Resources

While looking for some sample GIS data for a demo, I ran into the US Atlas of Renewable Resources, a project of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The atlas (which […]