Human Geography

July 31, 2009general, Human Geography, Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing Used to Discover Ancient Roman Site

Really, what CAN’T geospatial do? Researchers out of University of Padua in Italy took aerial photos of an area just north of Venice and discovered what used to be Altinum, […]
June 25, 2009general, Human Geography, WebMapping

Google City Tours

Google labs has launched a neat new feature called City Tours. The idea is similar to other sites (like Microsoft’s BING!) in that you can enter in a destination and […]
June 19, 2009general, Human Geography, Political Geography, WebMapping

Broadband Penetration by Country

As many long-time listeners will know, I exceptionally intersted in broadband adoption world-wide. The US has long been behind the ball on broadband adoption and this latest report does nothing […]
April 23, 2009general, Hardware, Human Geography

Broadband Providers Teaming to Outlaw Community Broadband in NC

I should start by saying I’m not even going to pretend to not be biased on this issue. The community of Wilson, NC decided that they were tired of paying […]
April 8, 2009general, Human Geography

Livable Streets Initiative

Digg had an interesting link to a pretty cool visualization technique. I like the addition of actual people into the “livable” street, as well as the architectural improvements. I think […]
April 1, 2009general, Human Geography

The Miniature Earth

Something most people (especially in the US) don’t spend a lot of time thinking about is world demographics. I’m sure everyone has heard some variation of the “if there were […]
March 27, 2009general, Human Geography

The World’s Eyes Project

Gizmodo has a pretty cool post about MIT’s Word’s Eyes Project. The idea behind the project is to look at the world through the photos posted on Flickr. What they’re […]
March 19, 2009Environmental, general, Human Geography

Time for Nuclear Power… again?

Ars Technica has a nice discussion about nuclear power discussions that took place at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago. The short of it is […]
March 5, 2009general, Human Geography, WebMapping

Geography of a Recession

The New York Times has a nice interactive map (flash based) of unemployement rates by county. It shows that areas with housing booms, lots of manufacturing, and high existing unemployment […]
January 18, 2009general, Human Geography

US Foreclosure Heat Map

If you’ve been curious as to exactly how bad a problem this foreclosure business has become, perhaps this heat map might give you an idea of the severity and location. […]