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May 10, 2012 Spatial UnmappedCartography, DataGeographic maps aren’t the only means by which to communicate spatial information. These alternatives to communicating geographic information revise space so that a singular focal point emerges, unfettered by the standard depiction of spatial entities. The Quasi-Map Styles I like to refer to as quasi-maps are data visualizations that evoke geographic patterns but don’t adhere ... read more April 27, 2012Geography of Billionaires: Total Counts of the World’s Billionaires by Country for Residency and Citizenship, and by CityDataListed below are the tables covering the statistics used in the Geography of Billionaires: Mapping Nationalities and Residency. All data has been tabulated from Forbes’ The World’s Billionaires List, March 2012. Visualization of this data can viewed on the page containing interactive maps of billionaires created using Google Fusion Tables showing aggregate data of billionaire residency by country, ... read more April 12, 2012 Mapping Emancipation Events during the Civil WarData, MapsUniversity of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, with Azavea, a geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company, has launched “Visualizing Emancipation,” the first interactive map showing the end of American slavery during the U.S. Civil War. The application displays more than 3,000 geographically tagged emancipation events, such as reports of African Americans helping the Union, fugitive slave notices, ... read more  Titanic MappingDataApril 15th marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean. Esri has created a map story that looks at the geography, class, and fate of the passengers on the ship. The online mapping application geocoded the hometowns of all passengers (Titanic’s crew was not included) and identifies them by ... read more  Envisat Satellite MalfunctioningData, GIS NewsEnvisat, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) earth observation satellite, has stopped functioning properly. Communication with the satellite was lost on April 8th when data was unable to be retrieved as it passed over the ground control station in Kiruna, Sweden. Efforts by members of the ESA mission control team have not been successful in reestablishing ... read more March 22, 2012 Mapping Access to Safe WaterData, MapsWorld Water Day is held on March 22 each year as a way to bring global attention to the world’s freshwater resources. Started by the United Nations, the theme for this year’s World Water Day is Water and Food Security. Access to clean water is not just necessary for hydration, but is needed to produce ... read more March 19, 2012 1940 U.S. Census Records Release Date NearsDataThe detailed records from the 1940 U.S. Census are set to be released on April 2, 2012 at 9am Eastern Time. In additon to the standard questions of name, age, gender, and race, education, and place of birth, the 1940 U.S. Census also asked more detailed questions: The instructions ask the enumerator to enter a circled ... read more March 14, 2012 OpenStreetMap’s GrowthDataBeyoNav, which analyzes the growth of OpenStreetMap data (OSM), has released new metrics looking at the growth of street data within the crowdsourced GIS data gathering project. OpenStreetMap data was analyzed using BEYONAV’s proprietary BeyoViewer software package. Looking at the entire planet OSM dataset, BeyoNav found that there was a growth of 75% in 2011, and over ... read more January 28, 2012 Analysis Finds Three Times More Farmers’ Markets in Areas with the Lowest Obesity RatesData, MapsAn independent analysis conducted by mapping analytics firm PetersonGIS shows that locations with the highest obesity rates contain the fewest farmers’ markets. To produce the analysis, March 2011 data from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on market locations throughout the United States were mapped and correlated with county-aggregated obesity statistics* from the Center for Disease ... read more January 25, 2012 New Plant Hardiness Zone MapData, MapsThe U.S. Department of Agriculture has released a new Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM). The map is the first updated in over twenty years and incorporates greater accuracy and detail since the last map from 1990. The new map was developed by the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Oregon State University’s (OSU) PRISM Climate Group and is available ... read more |
