Date archive for September, 2009
September 22, 2009Monopoly Used to Conceal Escape MapsMapsDuring World War II, Monopoly had a greater role than just enjoyment. The popular board game was used by the British Secret Service to hide escape maps. The maps were printed on silk which had the double advantage of being both durable under environmental stress and whisper quiet. The escape maps were hidden inside boxes ... read more September 21, 2009GIS Market to Grow by 50% Over the Next Five YearsIssues in GISA market study by the ARC Advisory Group predicts that the geospatial industry will grow by 50% over the next five years: The worldwide market for Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) is forecast to grow 50% over the next five years, representing a compound annual growth rate of 9.3%, according to a new ARC Advisory Group ... read more The Revenge of Google MapsGPS, Web MappingDave of Sheepfilms has made a whimsical short video about the “dangers” of using Google Maps and GPS. (Via The Map Room and Gadfly) read more...Lunar GISWeb MappingGo beyond the earth and find applications of mapping and GIS technology for the moon. Find data, online mapping and spatial data relating to the moon. read more...September 17, 2009 Earth viewed from booksDataOver on the Inside Google Books blog, Mathew Grey, a software engineer at Google, has created a time series of maps of the earth based on the number of times a location was mentioned in books from Google Books Search. Grey expanded on a project, originally created by David Petrou that extracted locations mentioned in ... read more September 16, 2009 Book: The New Age of AdventureGeographyPublished by National Geographic Adventure, this anthology features adventurous tales written by such famous writers as Sebastian Junger, Peter Matthiessen, and Philip Caputo. The book features fascinating stories about elephants in India (“Stomping Grounds”) and riding along with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (The Whale Warriors”) among many others. The New Age of Adventure: Ten ... read more September 14, 2009Shapefile Viewer for Data.govDataESRI has a viewer that makes viewing shapefiles available from the Data.gov data warehouse a breeze. Click on the Data.gov tab to browse through a list of available shapefiles. Viewing the dataset is as simple as dragging the orange SHP icon to the Zip URL file text box and clicking on the “Display Shapefile” button. ... read more September 13, 2009Tracking TrashGeographyDo you know where your trash ends up? MIT researchers are seeking to answer this question by attaching tiny tracking devices to 3,000 pieces of trash in Seattle. The tracking devices are the size of a matchbook and each volunteer household will attach them to 10-15 pieces of trash. The trash is disposed of normally. ... read more Dictionaries and GlossariesLearning GIS, Link LibraryNew to GIS or confused about all that terminology? Browse through these links to find answers to your frequently asked questions about this field. read more...Dead Sea DyingGeographyHuman use of the Jordan and Yarmouk rivers for irrigation combined with the use of Dead Sea water for the potash industry is leading to an alarming drop in water levels of the Dead Sea. The study was led by Shahrazad Abu Ghazleh of University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany. The researchers used GPS to ... read more |
