Date archive for September, 2007
September 29, 2007GPS 1 – Cabbies 0GPSThe battle by New York taxi cab drivers to prevent the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) from requiring them to install GPS technology in their cars was dealt a blow yesterday when U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman refused to issue an injunction to block the rule from going into effect. The taxi cab drivers, ... read more September 28, 2007Autodesk to release open source geography toolSoftwareAutodesk recently announced that it will release an open source tool to convert GIS data from one coordinate system to another. In the press release, Frank Warmerdam, president of Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is quoted as saying, “The latest planned contribution supports the projections and transformations necessary to support over 3,000 coordinate systems worldwide ... read more New Euro coin leaves Turkey off the mapGeographyThe design of the new two Euro coin has caused a stir after Turkey is markedly absent from the map while parts of Belarus and Russia are included. Charges of politics have arisen as an argument for why Turkey was not included despite the intentions of the European Commission to portray a larger map on the ... read more September 25, 2007Earth as Art now available as a Google GadgetGeographyBeautiful images of the earth are now available as a Google Gadget from the USGS that you can add to your iGoogle page. Gadgets are mini-applicationst that can be added to your iGoogle homepage or to your own web site. Use the <– and –> arrows to scroll through the gallery and download full-resolution, full-color ... read more Calling all U.S. and Canadian MapmakersCartographyThe Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) has announced their 35th Annual Map Design Competition. Maps created during the calendar year 2007 by professionals and college-level students from the United States and Canada are eligible for submission. The deadline for submitting your map is January 15, 2008. Entries will be judged on “color, overall design and impression, ... read more ESRI Tools for the 2010 CensusSoftwareESRI has released Census Tools for ArcGIS to help local governments with their GIS related preparation for the 2010 census. The extension was specifically designed to help users work with spatial data from the U.S. Census Bureau as part of the the Local Update of Addresses (LUCA) and Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS) programs. read more...September 24, 2007Graduation Rates MapGeographyThe Editorial Projects in Education (EPE) Research Center recently announced a new mapping web site showing high school graduation rates across the United States by state and by district. Along with panning and zooming, graduation statistics can also be searched for by place or by school district. When you zoom in, place holders for each school district can ... read more BASINS 4.0Free GIS, SoftwareBASINS 4.0 is an environmental modeling interface built upon the open source GIS MapWindow. The system contains tools to download data from the internet and can perform basic GIS functions to prepare inputs for modeling pollutant loading in streams. There is also a Windows-based Climate Assessment Tool, for assessing potential impacts of changing climate on ... read more Rote Geography Mastered at 23 Months OldGeographyFor a little balance after all the incoherent lack of geography education explanations and exposure to people who don’t know if the world is flat, I present to you “Lily: The World Map Master Baby Genius”. I think the little dance she does on the bed helps her geography acumen. Lily was profiled on KSL ... read more September 23, 2007Visualizing EconomicsGeographyDescribed on her personal web site as an Interaction Designer, Catherine Mulbrandon has a very interesting site called “Visualizing Economics“. As the name suggests, Visualizing Economics is a blog that focuses on taking data from government web sites and displaying them in a way that can be easily understood. Most of the data is visualized ... read more |
