mapping

Hack Your Town

September 7, 2011

“If guns are about power, then hacking is about secret knowledge, and knowledge is also power.” – Charlie Stross in The Fear Factory “Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.” – H. Jackson Brown Chicago Trib news app developer leaves Chicago and moves to small town of [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

The Morganza Spillway Is Now Open

May 14, 2011

Morganza Floodway Travel Times, a photo by Team New Orleans, US Army Corps of Engineers on Flickr. The Pointe Coupee Banner | Corps directed to open Morganza Spillway The Morganza Spillway has been opened to protect Baton Rouge and New Orleans from the Mississippi River potentially overflowing its carefully-carved banks in these cities. According to [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

Pakistan Flooding Imagery

August 19, 2010

Before and After images of Pakistan flooding (via NASA Earth Observatory and The Map Room) Please donate what you can. I prefer the World Food Programme because they do get the job done. Please please help. It’s to get a lot worse. Tweet

0 comments Read the full article →

Day 46 Links

June 4, 2010

The LMRP tophat is in place. Closing the vents in the cap is slow going with the formation of hydrates and high flow pressure out of the well. Indeed, we are still watching and discussing. The Oil Drum | Lessons Left Unlearnt From 2003 Gulf of Mexico Near-Spill: “Reading through some MMS reports, it seems [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

No, Not With The Google Maps!

May 28, 2010

Slashdot | High-Tech Burglars May Get Longer Sentences In Louisiana Burglars and terrorists should be careful not to use Google Maps if they plan on committing crimes in the state of Louisiana … a bill approved 89-0 by the Louisiana House will require that judges impose an additional minimum sentence of at least 10 years on [...]

3 comments Read the full article →

Southeastern Louisiana Is Officially Screwed

May 10, 2010

The containment dome failed, Top Kill is looking like a no-go, the flow by now is higher than 5000 barrels per day and Joe Lieberman says, “Accidents happen.” There’s a difference, senator, between Accidents Happen and The Accident Is Still Happening 21 Days After And Nothing Can Stop It. BP is now attempting a smaller Macondome, [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

How Big Was The Oil Spill As Of May 6th?

May 8, 2010

Paul Rademacher has created a Google Earth mashup in which you can overlay the extent of the Gulf of Mexico oil spread as of May 6th on any place on the globe. How big is the slick compared to where you live? Remember that the gusher will only keep widening in extent as long as [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

Buckle Up, Florida & East Coast

May 5, 2010

Here comes the Loop Current. Marion Laney, a realtor on Dauphin Island, has uploaded the following video from the Ocean Circulation Group at University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science. It uses drifters tracked by satellite to follow and forecast the movement of the Gulf Gusher (note that this is based on one model, like in [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

Wisconsin In The News

March 25, 2010

1. Finally, Wisconsin is recognized for something we’re really, really good at. Thanks to Nathan at Flowing Data for posting this FloatingSheep gem. Flowing Data | Where Bars Trump Grocery Stores: “Red dots represent locations where there are more bars than grocery stores, based on results from the Google Maps API. The Midwest takes their [...]

4 comments Read the full article →

A Response To “All These Earthquakes”

March 1, 2010

@geologynews wanted to know where he could find “a list of all earthquakes from 2010 (say, >M5.0+), not just from the past week or month.” At the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Earthquake Browser, of course! The following map shows all 3228 earthquakes between January 1st, 2010 and today. In two months, a tiny [...]

8 comments Read the full article →

← Previous Entries