Where Does Thanksgiving Dinner Come From?

Saturday November 25th 2006
Filed Under Maps 

Based on data from the 2002 Agricultural Census Data, this map was created by the Indiana University Libraries and shows the agricultural production of the foods that commonly make up the traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner.

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ArcGIS Explorer

Monday November 20th 2006
Filed Under ArcExplorer 

If you’re curious about the long awaited ESRI data viewer called ArcGIS Explorer you can visit’s ESRI’s showcase page on the product. The product has been considered by some as a competitor of Google’s Earth. You can download ESRI’s podcast on ArcGIS Explorer here and decide for yourself.

Google Celebrates Geography Awareness Week with New Innovations for Google Earth

Monday November 13th 2006
Filed Under GIS News, Google Earth 

Google celebrated Geography Awareness week on November 13th by releasing the ability to tap into historical maps through Featured Content for Google Earth that allows users to connect to David Rumsey’s huge collection of historical maps.

Wisconsin Historical Society Reference Maps

Tuesday November 07th 2006
Filed Under Map Collections 

Wisconsin is a state that certainly knows how to take care of its history, and the Wisconsin Historical Society has been doing an admirable job of presenting items from the Badger State’s history to the general public since 1846. Recently, they expanded their online efforts by creating a reference collection of thematic maps that offer spatial representations of different phenomena and occurrences throughout the state’s history. From the main page, visitors can explore the selections chronologically through such headings as ‘Early Native Peoples’, ‘Wisconsin in the Civil War Era’, and ‘The Progressive Era’. The maps have been culled from a variety of print publications and other sources, including the landmark multivolume work, ‘The History of Wisconsin’, which was published between 1973 and 1998. From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2006. http://scout.wisc.edu/

Planet Geospatial

Thursday November 02nd 2006
Filed Under GeoBlogs 

Planet Geospatial provides an aggregated view of many of the popular GIS related blogs. The site contains a running log of feeds from various GIS blogs which are listed on the right hand side of the page.

GIS Pilot

Wednesday November 01st 2006
Filed Under United States GIS and Data 

GIS Pilot is a site of GIS related links organized primarily by states for the United States. There are some limited link collections for the rest of the world. Updates to the site are listed below the link boxes.