With the threat of Gustav increasing to a Category 4 hurricane we’ve been working on getting storm surge and wave height prediction data loaded into GeoCommons (many thanks to Raj for leading this up). According to CNN, FEMA’s models has predicted “4.5 million people will be in the storm’s path and [...]
Continue Reading →As Gustav increases in intensity traveling through the Gulf the threat of it hitting Louisiana and potentially New Orleans appears to be increasing. It also looks like Gustav could intersect with a variety of critical US energy infrastructure. We’ve been tracking both the storm and the potential impact on energy infrastructure and thought [...]
Continue Reading →Urban Mapping has created a multi layer paper map called Panamap. Powered by their “MapAction Technology,” users can view different layers of the map in different angles. The map provides three images that “are interlaced by alternating horizontal strips from each. The resulting compound image is calibrated to a specially designed polymer lens [...]
Continue Reading →When Laurie was working on her blog post covering the geopolitics of oil, she asked Raj and I to help out with creating some maps. She had some nice data showing the known oil and natural gas reserves around the globe. Specifically, she wanted some 3D maps to really show the relative amounts of oil [...]
Continue Reading →The Mexican National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) has very interesting data at the municipality level (of which there are nearly 2,000). Conteo de Población y Vivienda 2005 (or Count of the Population and Housing) provides data ranging from migration to indigenous languages to household details. Finder! has [...]
Continue Reading →Geopolitical tensions wreaked havoc on oil prices last week. While an unstable U.S. dollar can partly explain the recent volatility in the market, Russia’s invasion of Georgia and continued military presence in that region is clearly a factor. First, Russia sits on a lot of oil and natural gas. The maps below, which were generated [...]
Continue Reading →The Carbon Project announced the release of their Secure Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) 1.0 extension for ArcGIS 9.2 desktop this week. The SDI 1.0 is a selected suite of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards endorsed by government agencies to promote interoperability. The extension will be the world’s most powerful geospatial security [...]
Continue Reading →Decisions are made by those who show up. Since the State Department is responsible for promoting peace and stability in regions of vital interest, the Secretary of State has to show up in a region to promote diplomacy there. The travels of a Secretary of State thus reflects the foreign policy [...]
Continue Reading →There has been a fascinating thread going on over on James Fee’s site about a web mapping application built by Morris County, NJ to view their public geodata. James’ blog post and the comments to it all decry the lack of usability and shortcomings of the site, and how it is “par for the course” [...]
Continue Reading →The data team at Geocommons has been adding international demographics datasets to Finder! like crazy. We hope that you will find these data sets useful in putting together maps with your own data because, to be honest, slogging through census data is turning us into gnomes.
The Brazillian census is so impressive that it deserves [...]
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