Yesterday much of the D.C. area was watching a stand-off between James J. Lee and police at Discovery Channel’s Headquarters just outside of Washington D.C. I found out about the incident as I get most of my news, through Twitter. I was interested in seeing if people were actually tweeting about the incident from [...]
Continue Reading →I have found the recent story about the “Barefoot Bandit” to be quite fascinating. It is incredible how someone could elude authorities for so long in this day and age.
I came across an interesting graphic about the story created by Matthew Bambach of the Seattle Times. It is a map of [...]
Continue Reading →Have you ever traveled out of the state you live in and found yourself saying, “Wow, people in this state are terrible at driving.” Now you can see if your claim was appropriate after looking at the GMAC Insurance National Drivers Test.
GMAC Insurance has been conducting an annual survey where respondents take [...]
Continue Reading →Valentine’s day is this Saturday so I thought I’d made a few maps in honor of this lovers holiday. Since one thing lovers do is travel, I made a map of the 50 most romantic places in the world…at least according to Travel + Leisure in 2005. Each icon on the [...]
Continue Reading →Maps by Emily Sciarillo and William Benjamin
Last week President Obama presented the Congress and the American people with his examination of the state of the union after his first year in office. He outlined his achievements as well as some of his failures in the past year and presented his plans for the [...]
Continue Reading →I’m about to head home for Christmas and I’m flying out of DCA in Washington, DC. I love this airport because its close by and easy to get to by Metro. Since I am currently without a four-wheeled means of transport, the Metro is my friend, as is Reagan National Airport. I’m flying home to [...]
Continue Reading →This summer, the FIFA Soccer World Cup will take place for the first time in an African country, South Africa. The Final Draw, the decider of which teams will be grouped together took place on December 4th. For many, this highly anticipated event officially kicks off the World Cup season. I am [...]
Continue Reading →A few weeks ago I did a blog on the country’s foreclosure rates. For that blog I made maps that showed those rates at the state level based on our regularly updated datasets from RealtyTrac in Finder!. Recently, we have added a dataset from HUD that estimates foreclosure rates at the [...]
Continue Reading →Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks and for many it is also a time for giving. I thought I would show how GeoCommons can be used to promote giving back this holiday. One way many individuals and families give during Thanksgiving is by donating to or volunteering at a local food bank’s Thanksgiving [...]
Continue Reading →The big news this week was the republican victories in Tuesday’s general elections. Since I work in Arlington Virginia (although admittedly I am a Baltimore native and by no means familiar with local Virginian politics) I thought it would be appropriate to take a closer look at Virginia’s gubernatorial election in which Republican [...]
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New GeoCommons Maps- Mapping Democratic Participation: Money & Recalls geographer
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- Colorado snow totals Feb 3, 2012 kevingraves
- Colorado snow totals Feb 3, 2012 kevingraves
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- Snowfall reports for Denver's February snowstorm, Feb. 2-4, 2012
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- Merge of 'Large/Medium U.S. Military Bases, 2009' into 'MILITARY_INSTALLATIONS_RANGES_TRAINING_AREAS_PT'
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