Date archive for March, 2007
March 15, 2007OpenStreetMap: Grassroots MappingCommunity, Data, FeaturesOpenStreetMap was founded with the goal of creating and providing free geographic data to whoever wants it. With an army of 5,000 volunteers who hit the streets around the world with GPS units to capture street segments or who participate in applying attribute information to collected data, the project has growing geographic data in thirty-nine ... read more March 12, 2007GeodyWeb MappingGeody is a geographic search engine which allows the user to search for places around the world as well as on selected extraterrestrial locations such as the Moon, Mars, Mercury and Venus. You can take a tour of Geody to get acquainted with the search options. Searching is done either by entering a place name ... read more March 11, 2007OneGeology Project: Mapping the PlanetFeaturesA network of scientists is poised to start the ambitious project of mapping the geology of the entire planet. Called the “OneGeology Project“, the team is made up of a consortium of international bodies, organizations and surveys from around the globe. Participants come from around the world with sciences from representatives from more that 55 ... read more March 9, 2007NYC Subway Smell MapGeographyNew York City has been besieged off and on with mysterious smells that no one has yet been able to identify. This past January the City was assaulted with a gaslike odor. Back in October of 2005, Manhatten smelled like breakfast with another mysterious odor of maple syrup in the air. Gawker has capitalized on ... read more March 8, 2007SarkGeographyThe Los Angeles Times has an interesting story today about the tiny island of Sark which still operates under laws and customs from 442 years ago when Queen Elizabth I decreed the island a noble fiefdom. The island is 3 miles long and is home to about 600 inhabitants who are “tenants”. According to the article, Sark ... read more Resume in Google EarthGeographyI don’t know if this is the actual “first” resume to be done in Google Earth but the concept is interesting. Ozgur Alaz from Marketallica split his resume into different categories (personal, education, work experiences, trend reporting, awards and interests). He then assigned geographic markers to each entry to create a spatial interpretation of his ... read more March 4, 2007Name GamesGeographyHow well do your geography smarts hold up under the gun, especially when timed? Try these pages which test how well you can regurgitate names of countries. The first one, developed by UC Berkeley students, asks you to name the 53 African countries in under ten minutes: Name the 53 African Countries in 10 minutes The ... read more March 2, 2007The Beginner’s Guide to Nation-BuildingGeographyThis guidebook is a practical “how-to” manual on nation-building published by the RAND corporation. From the mongraph description page: It is organized around the constituent elements that make up any nation-building mission: military, police, rule of law, humanitarian relief, governance, economic stabilization, democratization, and development. The chapters describe how each of these components should be ... read more |
