By juhrovic on
5/21/2009 9:00 AM
Wired News-"San Franciscans may have noticed an odd, camera-laden car driving through city streets taking photos of everything, but this time, it wasn’t Google. The car belongs instead to earthmine, whose cameras capture more data than Google’s do, using a higher-resolution, stereo photography technique that assigns specific points in space to every captured surface."
Check out Wild Style City.
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By juhrovic on
5/21/2009 8:57 AM
"Welcome to GeoTube - a collection of Geography videos from YouTube & other online sites. Join GeoTube & you can add your own favo ...
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By juhrovic on
3/4/2009 11:50 AM
An interactive map from the new york times showing unemployment rate changes over the past year by county for the U.S. It's interactive in the sense that it allows you to zoom in and zoom out and allows you to filter by several categories. The related article is also interesting.
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By juhrovic on
2/25/2009 11:01 AM
Earth Pulse, from National Geographic, is a good visual for explaining some of the current issues and trends facing our world. In addition to maps and imagery, there is some basic descriptive text.
The three trends focues on
- The Human Condition-looking at population, quallity of life, human impact, and food and water
- Our Relationship to nature- looking at ecosystems and conservation, and energy and carbon.
- Our connected world trends- exploring tecnology, and globalization
It's not an interactive mapping tool (which would have been nice) but it does have some interesting maps and imagery and looks at a top ...
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By juhrovic on
2/23/2009 4:53 PM
I am pleased to announce that we have scheduled our annual GIS Day event for Friday March 6th. This is going to be a great event, though mmore intimate than in past years, still a wonderful learning and networking event. This year we have games and prizes, along with job recruiters and much more. For more details on this even visit
http://gislab.fiu.edu/gisday
I hope to see you all there!
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By juhrovic on
1/30/2009 1:16 PM
The Hand Drawn Map Association is looking for new submitted hand drawn maps to be included in their book being published by the Princeton Architectural Press. Submissions should be received by the end of April 2009.
If you don't already know, the maps that are part of the Hand Drawn Map Assocation collection are created by the people and range from maps they drew to show friends how to get somewhere or maps of imagenary lands. The collection is really neat and can be viewed online.
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By juhrovic on
1/26/2009 4:15 PM
The Libre Map Project is a great resource, particularly because of the availability of 1:24,000 topo sheets in digital format free for download! Additional data and documentation is also available. This is a new resource and I look forward to seeing what other good stuff they make available!
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By juhrovic on
1/8/2009 11:44 AM
USGS has made ALL LandSAT Imagery free to download as of january 12 from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer. It's easy to use and pulls up imagery quickly. let's see how quickly the downloads are!
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By juhrovic on
12/1/2008 9:53 AM
The Journal of Maps "is an open-access
electronic journal that aims to provide a forum for researchers to
publish maps and spatial diagrams. It provides a unique outlet for
graphical material that may otherwise be expensive or difficult to
publish in a conventional paper-based journal." Most maps accompanied with outstanding articles
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By juhrovic on
12/1/2008 9:51 AM
Map of the distribution of HIV Infection around the world. The Map is avialble for free download and is based on WHO statistics.
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