So it’s happening again! The entire country will spend another Sunday with friends and family watching the Super Bowl (or at least checking out the commercials) and drinking beer. In honor, I thought I should put a dataset on Finder! on beer consumption in the US by state. The map below [...]

Having spent a little time in California, it always surprised me to hear how just about everyone who has lived here for an extended time has experienced an earthquake at some point or another.  Considering that I grew up in South Florida earthquakes were never a direct concern, but now that I have spent a [...]

President Obama has made it clear that he intends to get right to work. One of the issues he will have to deal with in the next few weeks is the Israeli Palestinian conflict. After a “22-day offensive against Hamas militants”, a cease fire has held for the past few days and Israel has [...]

A proposal recently came online recommending that the new Obama administration should invest over a billion US dollars to build a “National GIS”. The proposal claims “This system can be built quickly, immediately creating high tech jobs, and will serve as a public resource for project planners to support transportation infrastructure, water resource [...]

With the 2009 Presidential Inauguration of President Elect, Barack Obama, approaching I thought it would be helpful to post a map that would show the locations of different bed and breakfasts and hotels located throughout Washington, D.C.  If you are planning on joining the expected 2 million people on the National Mall on January [...]