Unless you have been living in a cave for the past couple months, you are well aware of the rising price of gas. The rising costs have affected many aspects of daily life for Americans from car buying to vacation plans. One area that has seen a big change is in the way Americans are [...]
Continue Reading →Jessica Wyland of Spatial Sustain and V1 Magazine discusses the role of GIS when measuring carbon footprints. Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) scientists are using GIS to measure ‘carbon-rich biomass in heavily wooded areas to indicate the effect that deforestation and land use have on rising carbon levels in our atmosphere.’ Through GIS, [...]
Continue Reading →With all of the havoc being wreaked by flooding in Iowa and across the Midwest we thought it would be useful to post up some of the data we’ve been collecting as the disaster unfolds. It is a small thing but hopefully helpful to folks in the community responding. My sister who lives in Iowa [...]
Continue Reading →Continuing with the cartography series we are going to cover the use of thematic mapping on the GeoWeb. There has been a pleasant up tick in thematic maps being used across the GeoWeb and more attention placed on the cartography of them. Real Estate sites have been using choropleth maps (usually labeled heat maps) for [...]
Continue Reading →The Department of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives recently came out with a report on firearms trace data from 2007. This report provides state level data on the origins of firearms recovered from crimes for each state. This has drawn much attention from local and state authorities, especially in cities [...]
Continue Reading →The recent strain on the economy in the United States can be felt throughout all facets of life for Americans. On June 3rd, chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke spoke about the economic outlook of the United States in his speech (via satellite) at the International Monetary Conference (Barcelona, Spain). [...]
Continue Reading →After a marathon of 50 plus primaries/caucuses while raising record sums of campaign money and more than a year and half of campaigning that had more twists and turns than a roller coaster, Obama clinched the nomination after crossing the threshold of requisite number of delegates on 3 Jun, 2008 and received the full [...]
Continue Reading →The first of our series on “Cartography and the GeoWeb” covers the cartography of GeoWeb base maps – one of the most obvious places cartography is applied on the GeoWeb. The tiles from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are nearly ubiquitous in map mashups. As each of the technology giants got into the mapping game, they [...]
Continue Reading →GIS Blog discusses the launch of the Acrobat 9 maps feature. The program receives support for the new PDF maps from ArcGIS 9.3. An additional benefit to the feature is that the free Adobe Reader also supports the mapping features, creating the possibility for quicker adoption than we’ve seen with GeoPDF.
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Continue Reading →While reading the newspaper last week I came across an article about the end of monarchy rule in Nepal. For 239 years the nation of Nepal had been under the rule of a monarch and as of last week the newly elected Constituent Assembly voted to change themselves to a secular republic in a vote [...]
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