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| February 23, 2009June 29, 2008Google'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 Google ... 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 Google ... read more April 22, 2008Earth as ArtFun, Remote SensingHappy Earth Day! The USGS and NASA jointly maintain the “Earth as Art” website which brings to the public stunning images of the Earth taken by the Landsat-7 satellite and the Terra Satellite’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). The site was originally created in 2002 by the USGS National Center for EROS in ... read more April 21, 2008Twitter in 3DFunNow you can see all your Twitter messages mapped across a globe. TwittEarth is a Flash application that pinpoints Twitter messages as they pop up around the world. The globe spins in response to new geolocated Twitter messages every 10 seconds. Either login in to post your own messages or simply space ... read more April 7, 2008Walmart Expansion Across the U.S.FunStarting with the first location in Rogers, Arkansas in 1962, this video maps out the growth of Walmart across the United States. The video shows the progression of Walmart’s expansion that starts out slowly in the late 1960s and rapidly speeds up starting in the 1970s and 1980s. Today, Walmart has over 3,800 ... read more December 18, 2007July 2, 2007July 4th Fun FactsFunThe United States Census Bureau has published their annual list of interesting trivia concerning the Fourth of July. July 4th Fun Facts read more...June 14, 2007Editable Vector MapsFunDigital Vector Maps offers royalty-free, digital vector maps in PDF and Illustrator formats. Map styles include World Maps, Globe Maps, Country Maps and other maps. Related: Clip Art for GIS and Geography read more...What is the longest river in the world?FunThis standard geography textbook question was always answered “The Nile”. Now, research, in part done through remote sensing, may change that answer to “The Amazon.” What is the Longest River in the World? read more... |


