A loss to the Community… regrets to share that Dr. Tomlinson has passed away…this comes via the CAG Academic discussion list Tomlinson is generally recognized as the “father of GIS.” He is the visionary geographer who conceived and developed the first GIS for use by the Canada Land Inventory in the early 1960s. This and […]
OpenStreetMap Edits – 20 million and counting!
Some of the latest stats from the OSM gang reveal 20 million edits to the popular OSM basemap and counting…
BullyVention maps Bullying in America
How do you increase awareness about the important topic of Bullying… you create a heat map naturally! Indeed, that’s exactly what one savvy youngster from Virgina has been doing via a project know ass BullyVention. About the effort… Viraj Puri, a 13 year old student from Fairfax County, Virginia, wants to create the only known […]
Denver Broncos Super Bowl Sunday 14ers Google Map
Some Google maps fun on the heels of the announcement by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper that the Colorado Rockies mountains known as the 14ers (think elevation above 14,000 ft) have been temporarily, officially renamed to honor the super Bowl bound Denver Broncos. From the official announcement… Gov. John Hickenlooper today announced a proclamation that temporarily […]
The Denver Broncos Colorado 14ers Google Map Honors Super Bowl Bound Broncos
Some Google maps fun on the heels of the announcement by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper that the Colorado Rockies mountains known as the 14ers (think elevation above 14,000 ft) have been temporarily, officially renamed to honor the super Bowl bound Denver Broncos. From the official announcement… Gov. John Hickenlooper today announced a proclamation that temporarily […]
MyWaytogo Trip Planning Tool from DRCOG for Denver, Colorado Commuters
A clever new trip planning tool is available to commuters in the Denver, Colorado area from DRCOG – enter Mywaytogo. The one-stop shop that allows commuters to easily and comprehensively compare their trip options and make informed choices. Users can simply enter their trip information to quickly see their commute options and compare travel time, […]
Scanner Wars – When Hardware Designs go offshore and return back to kill your business!
An interesting and rather sad story from a small business. A small startup in N. Colorado has a piece of hardware (patented design and TM name) for scanning know as the Flip-Pal (http://flip-pal.com/introducing-flip-pal/). Coincidentally a newer company has emerged and seem to be selling a product to the identical market… the product is coincidentally, similarly […]
Super Bowl Transit Perks! Brand New NYC Subway Maps For The Super Bowl
There’s no doubt that New York and New Jersey will be seeing some awesome economic benefits and perks as a result of hosting the 2014 Super Bowl. One added perk of being the host area is maps, in particular, sweet, new Transit maps! This from the Business Insider who’ve reported on the MTA rolling out […]
10 Considerations For Planning Your Next Hackathon
Hackathons… all the cool kids are doing them! Yes indeed, with the plethora of opendata being made available to the masses there’s no better way to get started than to hack. You know, a group of geeks gets together over pizza, beer and redbull, downloads a ton of data, cracks open their favorite SDKs, APIs […]
2014 Southern Resident Killer Whale Satellite Tagging
22 January – As of the morning of the previous map (16 January) the whales were off Port Angeles. They continued east into Puget Sound, circumnavigating Vashon Island on Saturday, and then made an excursion up into Saratoga Passage on the east side of Whidbey Island. They headed back south and exited Puget Sound on […]