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What is GIS?

June 29, 2009

A presentation on GIS put together by Allan Laframboise for middle-schoolers. It is visually-pleasing, crisp and understandable, thus making it a must watch for all ages. Tweet

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Writing At VizWorld

June 6, 2009

As you all know, I love everything to do with the earth, from mantle rocks to surface maps, and computer visualization.  With its varied interests and equally disparate readership, VatulBlog doesn’t seem like the place to post about my scientific interests, especially if I want to generate consistent discussion.  So, when Randall Hand, senior editor [...]

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Where 2.0 Impressions

May 20, 2009

This week, I’m at the Where2.0 conference in San Jose, California. It’s all about making maps, now enabled by the web and mobile devices.  If you really want to know what’s going on, search #where20 in Twitter.  I’m surprised we’re not a trending topic given the internet-choking number of tweets coming out of here.  What [...]

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links for 2009-04-13

April 13, 2009

Edit: I’ve been researching GIS teaching materials, went Google-crazy and came across these resources.  Be warned that there may be more link-tastic posts like this one. GeoCommunity (tags: blog news geography community GIS information jobs mapping CAD maps geocoding) GPS Visualizer | Draw a map from a GPS data file This form will automatically draw [...]

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Wishlist Item #1: Globe4D

April 12, 2009

Globe4D from Leiden University in the Netherlands … an interactive, four-dimensional globe. It’s a projection of the Earth’s surface on a physical sphere. It shows the historical movement of the continents as its main feature, but it is also capable of displaying all kinds of other geographical data such as climate changes, plant growth, radiation, [...]

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Day 1284: Visualizing The Economy

March 3, 2009

FortiusOne drops the GeoCommons News Dashboard with an introductory visualization tool known as the ObamaMeter, which ”[keeps] tabs on the US economy, the global economy and the stimulus through [a] visual dashboard.”  Sean Gorman, founder and CEO of FortiusOne, writes on the company blog: One map or analysis did not get the job done. They needed a collection [...]

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Day 986: Cyclone Nargis Flood Maps

May 10, 2008

IFRC: Aid moving out but more needed [As of May 9th,] over 220,000 people have received some form of aid from government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), other organizations and the general public. Over 80,000 of them have been served by Myanmar Red Cross … “Food, hygiene kits, water purification tablets, mosquito nets, sanitary supplies and most [...]

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Day 942: And You Were Worried About Red Light Cameras

March 26, 2008

On first seeing it, I thought the map referred to the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans.  It turns out to be a possible drug deal going down in the Southside of Chicago as captured by the Google Maps “Street View” camera.  Silly me, New Orleans has no street views. I go back and forth between [...]

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Day 680: How Google Earth Really Works

July 10, 2007

Mapheads out there will be pleased to read Avi Bar-Zeev’s multi-part series on How Google Earth (Really) Works.  A graphics expert, Bar-Zeev is an original founder of Google Earth and created some of the rendering applications for Second Life and other VR simulators.  After the intro and legalese comes Part 1, The Result: Drawing a [...]

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Day 676: While On The Topic Of Sea Level Rise

July 6, 2007

This reminds me of the time a friend’s student wrote about “seal levels” and “seal level rise” in her homework and tests, and cracked us up. Oh, how we mocked, “Oh, wait until global temperatures rise and Sea World and circuses have a huge influx of seals!” Bad grad student humor, I know. Anyway, here [...]

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