Human Geography
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Events, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Political Geography, WebMapping
GIS Day in the News
Updated: Today is GIS Day and it is making headlines in major newspapers around the globe. While some mainstream media sources are celebrating GIS Day by name, others are participating […]
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Human Geography, Navigation, Physical Geography
Geocaching goes mainstream
In the world of advertising and marketing, it is fairly easy to guess that if something starts to show up on deal sites and clearance sections that it has either […]
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Environmental, Human Geography, WebMapping
Geospatial Analysis of “America’s Forgotten Nuclear Legacy”
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting in-depth report on Waste Lands: America’s Forgotten Nuclear Legacy and an interactive map of the status of cleanup by state. While they call […]
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general, Human Geography, Physical Geography, WebMapping
The Geography of Twitter
The Switch writer, Caitlin Dewey, reviewed a recent study on Twitter in her article on “Where do Twitter trends start? Try Cincinnati” for the Washington Post. It summarizes a study […]
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general, Human Geography, Political Geography
Meta-Data, Locality, and WV-Gate
This past week, Democrat Natalie Tennant announced her run for Senate and it was covered by the Washington Post, “Natalie Tennant Officially Launches Senate Campaign in West Virginia“. However, the […]
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Environmental, Human Geography, Remote Sensing, WebMapping
Cat Tracks
The BBC News Science & Environment section has an article on “The Secret Life of the cat: What do our feline companions get up to?” with an interactive map of […]
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Dance Your GIS
Frank very jokingly sent me an io9 article on Science’s 2013 “Dance Your Ph.D.” Contest in which Ph.D’s, past or present, can win $500 for conveying their Ph.D concept through […]
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Cool Stuff, Human Geography, Travel
Scaling Up for Tourism
It isn’t often in geography that you are able to get a 1:1 ratio on anything but a post this week by Luke Y. Thompson about the classic table top game […]
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Education, Events, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Social Networking
ESRI and National Day of Civic Hacking
I must issue a mea culpa because when I first looked at the sponsors and participants in the National Day of Civic Hacking June 1 – 2, 2013 I saw no […]
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Human Geography, Physical Geography, WebMapping
GIS and Oklahoma Disaster
Many geospatial professionals, such as those on the GIS Stack Exchange, have asked what they can do with geospatial technologies to help in the aftermath of the tornadoes in Oklahoma or for […]
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