by Barbaree | Feb 22, 2011 | GIS Happenings, Our Blog
Chemical cartography is a fascinating new frontier in mapping. We ran across an interesting article on Discovery News and wanted to share it with all of our readers: Analysis by David Teeghman “Your city smells. Maybe good, maybe bad, but it definitely has a...
by Barbaree | Feb 18, 2011 | GIS Happenings, Our Blog
The current issue of Wired Magazine shared this fascinating map of the flow of organized crime around the globe. Click here for a closer look at the map and to read the accompanying article.
by Barbaree | Feb 16, 2011 | Conferences, Current Training, GIS Happenings, Our Blog, Past Training, Presentation & Conference Archives
Now in our 95th year, NCGE continues to both promote and celebrate geographic teaching and learning. Their activities include conducting and gathering research, producing journals and other geography publications, developing curricular resources at the K-12 and...
by Barbaree | Feb 14, 2011 | Free Resources, Our Blog
Happy Valentines Day! We wanted to share the website GEO-Greeting, which can send any message you choose written in buildings from satellite images. As you type the letters for your message in, the map will show you the global position of the buildings it is using to...
by Barbaree | Feb 9, 2011 | GIS Happenings, Our Blog
We recently ran across this fascinating study on how our eyes read maps on the blog for EYE Magazine. It compares regular octolinearity to new all-curves map models and how our eyes read and decipher information along the lines of a map. An all-curves map smoothes...