Human Geography

• December 4, 2006general, Human Geography

  IP Addresses Per Capita

  The good folks over at Modern Life is Rubish have posted a fairly interesting map. They’ve figured out which countries have the most IP address per person and which have […]

• November 15, 2006general, Human Geography

  World Map of Happiness

  How happy is your country? To help answer that question, psychologist Adrian White of the University of Leicester has produced a map (link does not contain any maps) that ranks […]

• November 7, 2006general, Human Geography, WebMapping

  Near Realtime election mapping

  Just got an email from Michael of the Ottawa County, Michigan GIS office. He pointed out their online election mapping of results as they are submitted. There will be a […]

• November 1, 2006general, Human Geography

  New Historical Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections

  Hot off the press is the new Historical Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 1788-2004, by J. Clark Archer, Stephen J. Lavin, Kenneth C. Martis, and Fred M. Shelley. It is […]

• October 5, 2006general, Human Geography

  300,000,000 Served

  An interesting milestone is about to happen in the US. Somewhere on or about October 17th, the US population will have surpased 300,000,000 people. The US is the third most […]

• October 4, 2006Cartography, general, Human Geography

  5,000 Years of Rule in the Middle East

  With the Iraq war very current for the US, especially in the media, it sometimes helps to take a bit of an historical view of the region. Simply put, the […]

• September 26, 2006general, Human Geography, WebMapping

  SoundAboutPhilly – off-the-beaten-path podcast tours of Philadelphia

  SoundAboutPhilly is a project, funded in part by the Pew Charitable Trusts, to generate podcast tour guide for lesser known areas of Philadelphia, historical tours, and other special topics. According […]

• September 25, 2006general, Human Geography

  What was Churchill’s Phone Number Again?

  I don’t know, but now I can find out. The UK is continuing their trend of putting old stuff up online by placing 100 years of telephone books online. The […]

• September 7, 2006general, General, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography

  Australia on the Map audio series

  One of our listeners, Elaine, let us know about a radio series called Australia On The Map. The first program in this series, The Siren South, looks at early Dutch […]

• September 6, 2006general, Human Geography

  A Modern Day Ruins

  Here’s an intersting photo series about an abandoned town in Russia. The pictures are pretty interesting, especially when you consider this place was probably occupied less than 20 years ago. […]