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• September 14, 2005WebMapping

  WildFinder – Mapping wildlife

  WildFinder is the World Wildlife Fund’s web map-driven, searchable database on wildlife species worldwide, which was developed by ESRI and the private firm BlueRaster. Check it out at http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildfinder/ Via […]

• September 14, 2005WebMapping

  Google Earth threatens democracy?

  The Register has an interesting article showing images garnered from Google Earth. I think the title is a tad sensationalist, but the article is interesting. Google Earth threatens democracy

• September 14, 2005General

  Google launches blog search beta

  This is a standard text search as opposed to some of the others that search based on tags. A with any attempt to search blog entries, it is quit overwhelming. […]

• September 14, 2005Education, General, Physical Geography

  BBC NEWS | Award for tsunami warning pupil

  Missed this one over the weekend. A harrowing tale of a girl and her knowledge of physical geography. I will put money that she becomes an english major after all […]

• September 13, 2005Navigation

  Is there a list to get on to play with the cool new stuff?

  This GPS unit looks fun. A combination of GPS, MP3 player, with PDA functions tossed in. Though the price tag might be a little high. Garmin’s nüvi, $970 hand-held multi-function […]

• September 13, 2005Cartography, General, Remote Sensing

  Geograph British Isles – photograph every grid square!

  Here is a cool UK website that details a project that “aims to collect a geographically representative photograph for every square kilometre of the British Isles” They bill it as […]

• September 13, 2005General, Remote Sensing

  BBC NEWS | Hubble reveals new map of Pluto

  Extraterrestrial mapping efforts continue 🙂 The future of Hubble may seem similar to that of Landsat 7, but it is still getting the job done. Archives are nice too… BBC […]

• September 12, 2005WebMapping

  See your contacts in Google Earth

  This is a plug-in for several PIMs that allow you to view the location of a contact within Google Earth. Download Squad Via Download Squad

• September 12, 2005GIS_Software

  GeoTorrent file-sharing

  I saw a press release on GeoTorrent on the Geoplace website and checked out the GeoTorrent.org site. It is based on bitTorrent technology. They seem to have mostly satellite mosaics […]

• September 11, 2005General

  Skype-in, skip the email and leave us a voice mail

  We have set up a Skype voice mailbox just as we said we would…5 weeks ago. So, for those of you on Skype, send your comments and questions to my […]