We recently launched the conference website for the upcoming Bucknell-hosted conference GIS & Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum. Basic info is shown below, but please check out the conference website for details and updates as they become available. About the Conference: When: November 16-18, 2012 Where: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. … [Read more...]
Phone-call cartography
Here's a link to an interesting NYT story, "Phone-call cartography," on mapping connectedness via data points from mobile phone calls. The accompanying map was produced by M.I.T.'s SENSEable City Lab using the origin and end point locations for cellphone traffic within the U.S. in July of last year. Phone-call cartography … [Read more...]
From the wilderness downtown to a Grammy win
In honor of Arcade Fire's Grammy win last night for album of the year, here's a link to their video/interactive map app for song 'We Used to Wait' from The Suburbs. You'll have to download Google Chrome to experience "The Wilderness Downtown" but it's worth the couple of seconds it'll take to do it. As mashable.com put it, "it's basically one big ball of HTML5/Google … [Read more...]
Map Your Music Memories
The Grammys and Music Is Life, Life is Music have launched a new mobile app that allows you to tag locations on a map with a music marker - could be the club you're going to see a show at later this weekend, the place you heard a song for the first time, or any other music-related comment or memory. From the Grammys blog: "You can share your tag by posting to your … [Read more...]