Earth Day Feature: Protecting Our Oceans, Part One
This Earth Day, we are shifting our attention to the oceans – the largest and most vital part of our Earth. Today and Monday we will share a two part series on our oceans: a TED talk from Sylvia Earle and our conversations with John Millar from Coast River...Apps We Love: Good Guide
We are switching up our blog schedule a bit so we can run a special two-part feature for Earth Day, which is this Sunday. So enjoy our “Apps We Love” a day early… In the spirit of Earth Day we are featuring another green app this month: Good Guide!...Mapping Social Landscapes
PGIS and PPGIS practitioners facilitate the identification of human/landscape relationships – both actual and perceptual. There is a subjective nature to maps and mapmaking. Consider recent efforts in mapmaking and the “truth” these maps...Dramatic Solar Flare Video
An incredibly stunning solar flare erupted from the sun’s surface, throwing charged particles and searing plasma millions of miles out into space on Apr. 16. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured data from the flare — a medium-sized M-class event — which was...Made Into A Map: Moustache Madness!
Usually we feature one project a month that shows something fun to make from a map. This month we wanted to share a silly map creation – a map built with moustaches! Facial hair connoisseurs will want to get a better grasp of the many countries and places that...Apps We Love: NASA Space Weather Viewer
The NASA Space Weather Media Viewer features near-real-time imagery from a wide variety of NASA missions, as well as video interviews with prominent scientists about the causes of space phenomena and NASA-created visualizations. The Space Weather Media Viewer was...March 2012 Hottest on Record
According to NOAA scientists at the National Climatic Data Center, record and near-record breaking temperatures dominated the eastern two-thirds of the nation and contributed to the warmest March on record for the contiguous United States, a record that dates back to...Interactive Online Historical Atlas
Visit this phenomenal interactive historic atlas that allows you to browse geographic borders through time with little tidbits sprinkled throughout like a panaramio. Each hot link shows you pieces from museums or gives you cool facts or trivia from the region.Rediscover African Geographies
From one of the earliest depictions of the continent to the colonial scramble for land, these maps reveal a great deal about the people who have lived there through the centuries. To try to shed new light on the African archives held by the Royal Geographical Society,...