From the monthly archives: February 2008

Bumping up Against the Limits of Google MyMaps

On February 26, 2008 By Sean Gorman

Yesterday we posted a blog about the international fiber cuts a few weeks ago. While I am interested in the geography of fiber and failures in general, we thought it would be a good opportunity to put Google MyMaps through its paces for creating a substantive data driven map. After 25 or so hours of [...]

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Mapping International Fiber Cuts – Conspiracy Theory or Statistical Outlier

On February 25, 2008 By Sean Gorman

Ok – we are bit late to the game but digging up good data was a bit harder than we thought. There has been a lot of blog and media buzz over the last two weeks regarding a spate of submarine telecommunication cable failures. Various reports have counted as many as nine failures, [...]

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Is the GeoWeb being Ostracized?

On February 15, 2008 By Sean Gorman

I read a while back that the Department of the Interior and the Federal Geographic Data Committee where putting together a federal advisory committee on all things geospatial. When I read this I thought it was quite encouraging given the rapid change of geospatial technologies and the huge number of new users appearing through [...]

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Poll: What was your Favorite Bud Light Super Bowl XLII Commercial?

On February 4, 2008 By admin

Super Bowl XLII not only gave us a great championship game but a great set of entertaining commercials. Bud Light lead all the advertising groups by having six brand new commercials during the Super Bowl broadcast. Below are the six commercials. View them and vote for your favorite one. The results will be displayed on [...]

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NFL Player Hometowns: Offense Positions Versus Defensive Linemen

On February 3, 2008 By admin

In a previous blog, “Fantasy Football Fun: A Look at the Offense Side”, Matia posted an intriguing comment: “It would be interesting to see if certain states are more likely to produce offense positions or defensive linemen — you could control for state population and see if California and Florida really can stand up next [...]

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