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• December 17, 2005GeographyAwareness

  Top Ten Videos of 2005 From National Geographic News

  Not all Geography related, but still some interesting video clips from 2005. Top Ten Videos of 2005 From National Geographic News

• December 16, 2005WebMapping

  Google and the establishment of GIS As Media

  For GeoWorld’s December 2005 issue, Matt Ball has written a short position article on the notion that the release of Google’s mapping-related applications in 2005, and their huge surge in […]

• December 16, 2005GeographyBlogs, GIS_Software

  ArcDeveloper.net

  There is a new kid(s) on the block! The ArcDeveloper Blog is up and running. They are still getting ramped up and giving the “hey how are ya’s” but the […]

• December 16, 2005General, GeographyBlogs

  Where It’s At Podcast 2 available

  I am not sure why I sat on this information for a few days without posting it, but Paul and Renee have released their second great podcast for the land […]

• December 15, 2005General, Remote Sensing

  The Gigapxl Project

  The Gigapxl Project is based on an amazing super-high resolution camera built by Graham Flint, which he has used to take amazing landscape pictures, including a panorama of Pittsburgh, which […]

• December 14, 2005Human Geography, Navigation, VirtualEnvironments

  Virtual Hiking and the C5 Landscape Initiative

  As many of you know, GIS analysis is based on the notion that alorithms within the computer can be used to analyze the digital representations of real-world physical features such […]

• December 14, 2005General

  Send us your “Best of 2005” pick

  Episode 23 will be a year end round up of 2005 and a pick into 2006. We would like to include your perspectives on any local or regional Geography or […]

• December 13, 2005Cartography

  ColorBrewer Intro – Selecting Good Color Schemes for Maps

  One of our listeners, Jody, emailed us a link to ColorBrewer, an online tool to help people select color schemes for maps. It uses a flash-based map to demonstrate how […]

• December 13, 2005Physical Geography

  BBC NEWS | Ancient clues to ocean currents

  BBC has an interesting article on the use of sedimentology to study ancient ocean currents by the Woods Hope Oceanographic Institute. It is amazing how many articles are coming out […]

• December 12, 2005Cartography

  World Population Cartogram

  A cartogram is a map that distorts geographic boundaries based on different values of a variable. So, if smaller areas have higher values, they will be deliberately distorted to look […]