Date archive for August, 2007
| August 26, 2007The Role of Colors on MapsCartographyMatt from the About Geography has a brief write-up on the role of color in map making with a subsection on the use of color on choropleth maps. read more...Children’s Geography Books ReviewedGeographyElizabeth Ward from the Washington Post has a review of some emerging books on geography for children. From Jinny Johnson’s interactive Maps and Mapping to Peter Malone’s The Man Who Made Time Travel, find some interesting titles for your children to read and learn. read more...Oddens’ BookmarksGeographyStarted back in 1995 by Roelof Oddens, the curator of the map Library of the Faculty of GeoSciences at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands), Oddens’ Bookmarks is a phenomenal collection of links to maps and mapping on the Internet. Now with over 220,000 links, visitors to this site can search by keyword, country and ... read more August 24, 2007Overview of MapQuestGeographyMatt over at the About Geography site has written up a history of MapQuest. Started back in 1967 as the Cartographic Services division of R.R. Donnelley & Sons in Chicago, MapQuest humble beginnings originated from creating road maps for gas stations to hand out. Found out more about MapQuests evolution into an online ... read more August 23, 2007Flash EarthInternet MappingFlash Earth is an experimental application that loads in various imagery from some of the major online mapping applications. Created by Paul Neave, Flash Earth (as the name suggests) is a Flash-based viewing application for exploring the different satellite imagery available from Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Yahoo! Maps, Ask.com, Open Layers and NASA Terra. While ... read more Last of the WildData, MapsA joint project with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University looked globally at the influence of humans on the planet and found that: Analysis of the human footprint map indicates that 83% of the land’s surface is influenced by one or more of the following factors: human ... read more  The Mannahatta ProjectGeographyThe Wildlife Conservation Project is sponsoring an interesting study to recreate the ecology of Manhattan from 1609 when Henry Hudson first sailed into the area and then compare it to the current ecology. The Mannahatta Project will help us to understand, down to the level of one city block, where in Manhattan streams once flowed or ... read more August 22, 2007Armchair Storm TrackingInternet MappingThanks to a roundup over on the Google Earth Blog, you can now track upcoming storms on Google Earth. Right now the collection includes: two global hurricane tracking tools, global cloud maps, current global lightning strikes animation (from GuiWeather.com, severe weather warning data and radar data from NOAA for the US, TopicWatch by Paul Seabury, a ... read more Oakland CrimespottingIndustry and Subjects in GISOakland Crimespotting is a dazzling interactive mapping application built on Microsoft’s Virtual Earth. Crime incidents for the City of Oakland in California can be viewed over a time period or by type. Clicking on a particular crime location brings up a maptip with more detailed information on the crime. What pushes this application over the edge ... read more ArcGIS Server Templates for State and Local GovernmentSoftwareESRI has announced that templates created by winners of the ESRI and Stratus Technologies ArcGIS Server Demonstration Project Grant Program are now posted online and are available for downloading. read more... |
