Last week was a bit of a roller coaster starting in Las Vegas for the American Association of Geographers annual meeting and ending at Gov20Camp in Washington DC. In many ways the 2009 AAG meeting was a coming out party for the GeoWeb. There was a critical mass of presentations – well [...]

Safety Seats are used throughout the country to help protect children from injury during an automobile wreck. Currently motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for children ages 14 and under. It is easy to see that a large emphasis needs to be made in order to help protect children when they [...]

A little while back Chad Skelton, a reporter at the Vancouver Sun, emailed us that he would like to use our maps for some of the news stories he was working on. We’d been working on creating an embeddable widget for our maps and thought this would be great chance to test [...]

While I hardly think that the immature and offensive behavior of the hate group that call themselves Westboro Baptist Church deserve public attention, the fact of the matter is that those who are targeted by them (grieving families for example) may have a hard time ignoring their harassment. That’s right, this group has managed [...]

Chalk one up in the irony column. We applied for an FGDC NSDI CAP grant and actually won. For those not familiar with the alphabet soup FGDC is the Federal Geographic Data Committee, NSDI is the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, and CAP is the Cooperative Agreement Program. While I’ve voiced my opinions on [...]