Caitlin Dempsey
Sometimes Sunrise Doesn’t Exist: Controversial Decisions to Remove Towns from Maps
For about a month, the Florida city of Sunrise was mysteriously missing from Google Maps.
The World in 2050
Dr. Laurence Smith, a professor with the Department of Geography at UCLA, has a new book out called "The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future."
Astronomy – GIS For Other Planets
Not just for landlubbers, the use of GIS technology has applications in astronomy. Browse this list for GIS and mapping ...
Global Forest Heights
Where are the tallest forests in the world? NASA has an article on the first global map of the world's forest heights. The map was created with data collected by NASA's ICESat, Terra, and Aqua satellites.
Geostatistics Resources
Geostatistics is a brand of statistics that deals specifically with spatial relationships. Find information about this branch of mathematics, software ...
Free Map Servers
Want to launch maps over the internet but can’t afford commercial software? Check here for links to free map servers.
Mapping Out Geotagged Photos
These cartographers have mapped out geotagged photos to show areas where the most pictures by tourists have been taken.
Your Brain on Maps
What do some recent studies that look at the brain and navigation suggest? Read on to find out.
Free Spreadsheet Geocoding
If 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.
Matt Artz | Profiles from the Geospatial Community
Matt Artz is the editor of GIS and Science, a blog focused on "the use of GIS technology by the scientific community and for scientific applications".
Glenn Letham | Profiles from the Geospatial Community
Glenn Letham is a geospatial reporter, having first founded the Spatial News site before creating GISUser, a geospatial industry news site.
James Fee | Profiles from the Geospatial Community
James Fee is well known for his popular GIS blog that has an active participation by the geospatial community.
National Geography Standards
A set of eighteen learning standards has been created for the science of geography which are called the National Geography Standards.
Adena Schutzberg | Profiles from the Geospatial Community
Adena Schutzberg, the Executive Editor of Directions Magazine, shares insights on the geospatial industry.
C and C++ Programming
Guide to resources to learning C and C++ with an emphasis on spatial information. Find applications based on C and ...
Zoomable Paper Map
Called map2, the uniqueness about this map of London is the patented folding technique that allows the viewer to either view a large scale map or to fold out sections to see the zoomed in area.
Deadly Cold Across Europe and Russia
This image shows the impact of the cold snap on land surface temperatures across the region from December 11 to 18, 2009, compared to the 2000-2008 average.
Line in the Sand – How the Same Species Differ Across Borders
A study from the University of Haifa looked at differences between rodent, reptile, and ant lion species in Jordan and Israel.
Ordnance Survey Data to be Made Freely Available
The UK's Ordnance Survey will "will open up its data relating to electoral and local authority boundaries, postcode areas and mid scale mapping information."
First Thematic Maps
Zachary Forest Johnson provides an overview on Indiemaps.com on the first published instances of each of the six most commonly ...
Mapping via Cell Phone in Brazil
A Brazilian non-profit by the name of Rede Jovem (meaning roughly “Youth Net”) is helping to map the slums or ...
First American Spatial Solutions and Parcels
FASS has promoted their ParcelPoint® GIS database and associated technologies, featuring a nationwide parcel database with over 120 million parcels, now approaching 122 million, as highlighted by their vice president and general manager, Scott Little.
To What End, GIS?
Don Meltz blogs his thoughts on the myth of the GIS professional in his post, “GIS is Dead – Long ...
Walk Score To Go Open Source
Walk Score is preparing to go open source which they announced on their blog and in a press release.. At ...
Digitizing Using ArcGIS
This tutorial reviews basic digitizing using the editor toolbar in ArcGIS desktop.
NASA Drone Mapping Earthquake Faults
Wired has a pictorial on the latest effort by NASA to map California’s earthquake faults: In hopes of understanding California’s ...