Human Geography

September 3, 2006general, Human Geography

Mapping Globalization Project

Princeton University and the University of Washington have a joint project going called the Mapping Globalization Project, which uses maps, narratives, and other data to look at some of the […]
July 27, 2006general, GIS_Software, Human Geography

Humanities and Geography

The current issue of ArcNews has an article from AAG Executive Director, Doug Richardson, on an initiative to link Humanities and Geography. As you may have noted this is high […]
July 18, 2006general, Human Geography

How about a little music with your geography

National Geographic has launched National Geographic World Music, a new music store that lets users explore and purchase world music. The site includes content from the National Geographic Channel and […]
June 27, 2006general, Human Geography, VirtualEnvironments

Urban Planning – Sim City style

BBC News has a nice article about MetroQuest, a software application that uses a Sim City-like visual interface to allow users to model how urban planning decisions might affect the […]
June 24, 2006general, Human Geography, WebMapping

The Bio Mapping Project

The Bio Mapping project is an example of creative research that seeks to combine information gather about our bodies’ measurable responses to the world around us, and how those responses […]
June 22, 2006general, Human Geography

Geographer Ken Martis discusses the political geography of US elections

This morning, I saw an article at the Detroit Free Press website about one of our own faculty here at WVU and, of course I just had to post about […]
May 7, 2006Cartography, general, Human Geography

Mapping the World’s Languages

Dr. Steven Huffman has posted a series of maps of the world’s language families, based on Merritt Ruhlen’s “A Guide to the World’s Languages”, as a project using Global Mapping […]
May 5, 2006general, Human Geography, Physical Geography

Biodiesel Station in Ohio

Oberlin, Ohio to be exact. A little west of Cleveland. Full Circle Fuels is a quaint little station from the 1950’s that has converted itself into an alternative fuels spectacular. […]
May 1, 2006general, Human Geography, VirtualEnvironments

Preserving China’s past in digital form

3PointD linked to this article from CRIEnglish.com about several projects under way to digitially recreate a number of China’s endangered or destroyed cultural resources. Among the projects are stuctures at […]
April 28, 2006general, Human Geography

Follow the money!

This is a nice mashup for the politically minded out there. You input your zipcode and it spits back a map showing political contrabutions to either of the two major […]