Date archive for August, 2008
| August 30, 2008Yummy MappingMapsHere’s a fun mapping project from the Democracy Project hosted on the PBS site. The exercise combines a tasty treat with map reading skills. Online Mapping is Not the Death Knell for MapsCartography, FeaturesMary Spence, the President of the British Cartographic Society, recently sent the geoblog world atwitter with her pronouncement that Internet mapping is responsible for removing broad strokes of history and local geography through the practice of what she referred to as ‘corporate blankwash’: “Corporate cartographers are demolishing thousands of years of history – not to mention ... read more Ten Differences between the North and South PolesGeographyDo you know what the differences between the Antarctic and the Artic are? Which one has penguins and which one has polar bears? Do you know which one is colder? To learn these answers and more check out LiveScience site’s North vs. South Poles: 10 Wild Differences. read more...August 28, 2008TypeBrewer – Font Tool for CartographyCartographyTypeBrewer is a Flash application that “offers a quick and easy way to explore typographic alternatives and see the impact that various elements of type have on the overall look and feel of a map.“ The application allows your to play around with different fonts, sizes, label densities and font tracking to get a better ... read more August 27, 2008Geographic data for Africa LagsDataA lack of comprehensive geographic data is an obstacle for effective land management for many countries in Africa according to the latest Map Africa conference. Derek Clarke, the chief director of the surveying and mapping unit at South Africa’s ministry of land affairs, states that only 45 percent of the populated areas of Africa are ... read more Missisippi GIS ResourcesDataData Sets Free Geo-Data for Mississippi Suggest a resource: editor@gislounge.com read more...Europe GIS ResourcesDataGIS data and resources that cover Europe. Find downloadable data, organizations and other geosptial resources. Data About Europe Maps and geographical information from the Geography Site at About. Baltic Sea Cadastral, demographic and environmental data for the Baltic Sea Region. Available from the UNEP in ArcInfo, ArcView, Idrisi and MapInfo formats. Organizations EUROGI European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information (EUROGI) is an ... read more August 26, 2008 Cow MagnetismGeographyGoogle Earth has a new function: determining the preferred orientation of cows. Sabine Begall and Hynek Burda of the University of Duisburg-Essen looked at over 8,500 cattle from around the world using imagery from Google Earth and discovered that cattle grazing or resting tend to orient their bodies north-south. The exact benefit for cattle isn’t ... read more August 25, 2008Welcome to the Age of Intelligent MapsCartography, FeaturesThe Adobe Think Tank has an interesting article by Karzys Varnelis and Leah Meisterlin entitled “The invisible city: Design in the age of intelligent maps”. Citing the rise of GPS, online mapping and other digital formats for cartography, Varnelis and Meisterlin discuss the implications on design as they herald, ” Welcome to the age of ... read more August 23, 2008Mexicans Using GPS Microchipping to Combat KidnappingGPSWith a 40% rise in kidnapping over the past few years, Mexico has the unenviable status as ranking with wartorn countries such as Columbia and Iraq as a high risk place for abductions. One way that affluent and even middle class Mexicans are combatting the problem is by embedding GPS microchips into themselves in order ... read more |
