The CCsP conference September 12 and 13 in Den Haag included many fascinating presentations by climate experts from the Netherlands, other European countries, Brazil and the US. Many ongoing projects are looking at risks, costs, and even opportunities, focusing on two concurrent approaches: mitigation and adaptation. Dr. Jeroen Aerts from the Vrij Universeiteit discussed Climate adaptation: cross-sectoral approaches in relation to […]
A post today on the interesting Free Geography Tools blog provides a summary of some of the great digitized historical map collections. For example, the British Library has a large scanned maps collection, and an oddly anachronistic feature: London: A Life in Maps featuring red google pushpins identifying the point of focus of various antique maps and prints of London. Another […]
Cartography met pop culture a week ago when a candidate for Miss South Carolina answered a tough question about American school children’s geographic myopia. She was asked what the reason could be for the fact that 1/5th of Americans cannot locate the US on a world map. (That was the NOTfunny part of the story.) Her bizarre […]
Stumbled on this one today, which could be useful to friends and family, the NYC Transit Map. This unassuming programmer Greg Brail has a day job and doesn’t seem to want to be bought by Google or anyone else. The applet has been on the Internet since 1996. About 1000 people use this per day, but this […]
Discovered two resources which will help a lot: 1) Mapki – A wiki (knowledge base) on Google maps API, and 2) Google Maps Tutorial by Mike Williams. Gonna read that one cover-to-cover. Best I’ve seen so far.
Yesterday they launched “Sky in Google Earth“. (Why not Google Sky? Probably someone snapped up the domain name and wants to get rich. Or could it be a certain embarrassed restraint: ”We’ve claimed the Earth, but can we really claim the Sky?”) Its all over the blogs, and now all over the big news channels […]
Central African Republic in Google EarthWhile we are on earth, there are things we should not forget about. (Before we soar into space that is.) GEB (Google Earth Blog), pointed out this Central African Republic KMZ, created by Humanitarian and Development Partners in CAR. Dozens of layers provide information about this country, not far from […]
Storm Tracking Google Earth Blog has posted an amazing collection (a “network link”) of weather tools from a variety of sources. This is a wonderful assembly by various authors, including live weather images, and animated projections of hurricanes. GEB has organized them in a way which is very easy to use, and the layers only turn […]
The spring edition of “Healthy GIS“, ESRI’s newsletter for GIS users in healthcare fields, features a fascinating article about a young (18 years old) researcher who is investigating the causes of MS, using GIS software. Correlating data on the incidence of Multiple Sclerosis by US county with the incidence of Lyme disease, Megen Blewett, has […]
Link to the article: Technology Reveals New Worlds to Map A New York Times article by Barbara Whitaker today highlights the growth of private sector GIS (geographic information systems) jobs. “Many jobs are with the government, but technological advances have also helped drive private-sector jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists G.I.S.-related jobs as among […]