A few weeks ago, Bucknell hosted Kansas State University geographer/cartographer Margaret Pearce for a presentation on map visualization and cartographic design. Dr. Pearce is a geographer who works on cartographic representation of cultural and historical geographies, especially Indigenous geographies. Much of her presentation focused on communication between the … [Read more...]
PhillyHistory + augmented reality as a smartphone app
This is the first in a series of posts about several exciting new projects that my old friends and Philly GIS happy hour buddies are up to at Azavea. The first is funded by an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant that was awarded to the Philadelphia Department of Records to create a smartphone app that will enable users to view historic photos from PhillyHistory.org draped … [Read more...]
Reminder: Margaret Pearce cartography presentation tomorrow, Tues. 3/1
Margaret Pearce, University of Kansas Dept. of Geography, will present a lecture, "Rethink the Reader: Toward Cartographic Design to Engage, Inspire, and Empower" tomorrow (Tues. 3/1) at 4:30 in 221 Coleman Hall. Dr. Pearce works on cartographic representation of cultural and historical geographies, especially indigenous geographies. Her work stems from, as she describes it, … [Read more...]
How big is it really?
Back in December I posted about an NPR story about map scale. I got so excited about the baseball on the moon map that I neglected to point out the other really interesting link from the story - to the BBC Dimensions website. Dimensions (or, 'howbigisitreally') has a tool that lets you plug in any zip code or location and then choose from a list of events, places or things … [Read more...]
Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty
There are a million reasons I can think of for wanting to be in Santa Barbara, CA this week but one of them is that I'd love to attend UC Santa Barbara's 'Think Spatial' forum. This week's presentation features Ruth Mostern from UC Merced discussing her use of Google Earth for teaching undergraduate history courses. In Mostern's upper division history course about the Silk … [Read more...]