Date archive for June, 2008
June 29, 2008 Geography GirlGeographyHere’s a flashback moment (at least for me) to grade school geography. Visit the image on Flickr, read the fun posts and help out Skye by adding a note on where you live. read more...Google’s Street View Car AdventuresFunApparently one of Google’s Street View car drivers decided that an up close and personal tour of Microsoft’s Campus was in order. According to Gizmodo (the site refers to it as the GooCar): The GooCar…wasn’t just covering regular roads, they were going in-between buildings and getting as many angles as they could of the campus….the ... read more June 27, 2008Ice-free North Pole?GeographyResearchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado are predicting that the North Pole may be briefly ice free this summer. Mark Serreze, a senior research scientist states, “It’s a 50-50 bet that the thin Arctic sea ice, which was frozen last autumn, will completely melt away at the geographic North Pole.“ ... read more MapTubeWeb MappingA new map sharing site was launched last month by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. As the introductory blog post states: Put simply it is a place to share, mix and mash maps with a nod towards professional map makers rather than the more widely seen ‘MyMaps’ type applications. What ... read more Map Makers of the WorldCartographyThe Maps of World site has a categorized listing of some of the most notable mapmakers in history and in contemporary times. From Anaximander who lived around 600 B.C. to Mike Reagon, a cartographer who has done work for National Geographic, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, the site has short biographies ... read more British CartographersCareer, CartographyThe Times has short profiles on two British cartographers. The first looks at Jon Ford, a cartographer with the British Geological Survey who splits his time between field surveying and developing 2D and 3D models of his fieldwork. The second profile is on Edward Mainwaring who works for the Ordnance Survey. Mainwaring became interested in ... read more June 25, 2008What Say You about GML?GIS NewsThe Open Geospatial Consortium wants to know what you have to say about GML: The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is inviting the public to offer change requests for consideration by the OGC Technical Committee on a revision of the OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard. GML defines a data encoding in XML for ... read more June 24, 2008Community Geography à la GoogleWeb MappingGoogle stepped into the community geography ring by announcing Google Map Maker, a new tool from Google that allows users to contribute and edit geographic data used by the popular Google Maps and Earth applications. This is a step beyond the My Maps tools (that allowed users to create and share geographic data) in that ... read more June 23, 2008Virtual Earth and Government AerialsGIS NewsInformation about Microsoft’s GoVE imagery acquisition program has been posted on Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog. The program is looking for governments to submit their aerial imagery to Microsoft for publication onto Virtual Earth. We’re just starting a new program called “GoVE” which enables municipalities, state and local governments, aerial photographers, carrier pigeons, whoever, to ... read more June 22, 2008Making SenseFeatures, Location Based ServicesThe NY Times (registration required) has a profile on Sense Networks, a company that mines millions of location data points using a tool called Macrosense. This tool mines data using complex statistical algorithms in order to predict human movement. The article quotes Tony Jebara, one of the co-founds of Sense who says: “We can predict ... read more |
