Subject: ‘mapping’
June 5, 2010 Your Brain on MapsGIS NewsAs part of a larger article on the real and hypothesized effects of relying on computerized navigation systems on the mind, Alex Hutchinson looked at research on spatial cognition. The ability to navigate successfully can be achieved by either of two different strategies in the brain which Hutchinson explains in Global Impositioning Systems: Iaria and McGill ... read more May 11, 2010 More New York Mapping GoodiesGIS NewsThe NY Times has an article and a series of photographs on the effort by New York City to collect LiDAR data. The data will be used, among other things, to create up-to-date maps of the areas most prone to flooding, the buildings best suited for the installation of solar power and the neighborhoods most in ... read more May 1, 2010 Free Spreadsheet GeocodingFree GISIf you have a spreadsheet such as a Microsoft Excel file containing address or x,y coordinates and you want to make a quick map, BatchGeo is a free and easy online application that will convert your location data and geocode it onto Google Maps. The steps are pretty simple. Since the application uses the first ... read more February 28, 2010 Guide to Nonprofit MappingCommunityMapTogether, which focuses on providing GIS support to community and nonprofit organizations, has released a booklet called the ”Illustrated Guide to Nonprofit GIS and Online Mapping.” The 45-page PDF file reviews basic GIS concepts, provides examples of nonprofit mapping, free data sources, and provides an overview of the more commonly available low-cost and free web mapping and ... read more January 13, 2010 Fortius One's Efforts to Map Haiti Post-EarthquakeDataThe Washington Business Journal has a piece on Fortius One’s efforts to map earthquake damage in Haiti. Arlington-based FortiusOne Inc., a data analysis and visual intelligence firm, is using its satellite imaging abilities to piece together an ever-evolving image of what Haiti and its capital city Port-au-Prince look like after being rocked by the magnitude 7.0 ... read more Fortius One’s Efforts to Map Haiti Post-EarthquakeDataThe Washington Business Journal has a piece on Fortius One’s efforts to map earthquake damage in Haiti. Arlington-based FortiusOne Inc., a data analysis and visual intelligence firm, is using its satellite imaging abilities to piece together an ever-evolving image of what Haiti and its capital city Port-au-Prince look like after being rocked by the magnitude 7.0 ... read more January 11, 2010 LeadDog and Home-based MappingCareerInc.com as part of their article on “How to Make a Million in Your Pajamas”, has a brief profile on LeadDog Consulting which was started as a home-based business by Jim Anderson of Anchorage, Alaska. In the cartography industry, there are only a handful of companies that are responsible for producing the majority of the ... read more January 8, 2010 A Year of MovementCartographyAndy Woodruff of the Cartogrammar blog spent 2009 tracking his movements. Woodruff mapped out his movements on a daily basis and categorized them by type of transport: foot, car, bike, train, and bus. The mapping was restricted to just the Cambridge, Massachusetts area so out-of-town trips are not recorded. Woodruff relied on memory and drafted ... read more December 1, 2009 USGS Celebrates 125 Years of Topographic MappingData, Features, GIS NewsDecember 3rd, 2009 marks the 125th anniversary of the national program for topographic mapping for the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The USGS was founded in 1879 by an act of Congress and tasked with the “classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain“. ... read more November 10, 2009First Thematic MapsCartographyZachary Forest Johnson provides an overview on Indiemaps.com on the first published instances of each of the six most commonly used thematic mapping techniques: choropleth, proportional symbol, dot density, flow, isarithmic, and cartogram. Each technique’s first mapping instance is described along with a scanned sample of the map. In conclusion, Johnson writes: Four of the ... read more |
