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Tina Cary has put together a comprehensive resource page pointing to online resources and her compiled Twitter resources for professional development in the geospatial technology field. Find information and twitter streams for geospatial publications...
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This link is a decade old, but still fun. The Antique Roadshow’s website has a section titled ‘Tips of the Trade‘ where different appraisers give tips that help them in deciding appropriate values. One of the tips is Searching out maps...
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This mesmerizing rotating sphere displays news items originating from cities around the world. The blocks extruding from the globe provide several points of information. The height and width of the block is determined by the population density of each...
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ESRI announced the publication of a another book in its cartographic classic series. The Look of Maps: An Examination of Cartographic Design is by Arthur H. Robinson and was originally published in 1952. According to the press release, the book was based...
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One thing I can say about owning your own business is you get tied up in a lot of different things. Some fun and some not so fun. This was something fun.
I found myself the first full week in June at a Clean Water Kids Camp. How did I get involved -I...
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Recently we featured the Grassroots Mapping project, a community participatory mapping initiative from the MIT Media Lab, on the podcast, and now the Grassroots team has headed down to Louisiana to try to utilize their balloon-based camera system to acquire...
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A while back I talked about Coyotes here in the blog (Acme GIS). I’ve been helping and continue to help one of the professors down at Berry College (Dr. Chris Mowry) with his Coyote research. I consider myself more of a hammer in the research –...
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Guest Post: Opening of British Library Magnificent Maps exhibition A Special Guest Post by Steve Chilton Manager of e-Learning Academic Development at Middlesex University & Chair of the Society... Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps...
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The winners of the Bizarre Map Challenge have been announced. First place went to Christopher Brown of the University of Alabama whose map showing a section of the Mississippi River and the Bayou Lafourche of French colonial longlots in coastal Louisiana...
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In a new announcement in the field of nanotechnology, IBM announced that they had created the world’s smallest 3D map, declaring that the map “of the earth so small that 1,000 of them could fit on one grain of salt“. The scientists accomplished...
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The Beauty of Maps - BBC Series "Seeing The Art In Cartography" An amazing array of interesting cartographic maps spanning centuries of maps that changed the perception of the world we see... Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps...
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For all you students out there whose maps are greeted with a “That’s bizarre…”, I’ve got the perfect map challenge for you! Our reader Keith M. sent us a heads up about the Bizarre Map Challenge, a map design competition...
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We’ve taken on board a lot of feedback and made lots of fixes and updates to Mapzen which we think will make a significant difference to your editing experience. They’re aimed at helping you map more by providing even greater flexibility within Mapzen...
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There’s been a lot of work going on behind the scenes to make Mapzen, CloudMade’s family of easy to use OpenStreetMap editing tools, even easier, even more useful and even more fun to use. So what’s new?
Mapzen POI Collector 1.1 –...
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Roger Bacon, the Franciscan monk in the 13th century, wrote, “there is no doubt that corporeal roads signify spiritual roads.” Cartographers believed this as well: early maps reveal visual histories, littered with legends, lore and drawings of monsters...