New social media mapping sites are popping up all over the place these days - whether it's crisis-mapping sites like Sinsai.info or this new 'happiness' map from PhD student Alex Davies. Davies, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge's Computational and Biological Learning Lab, created a statistical model to analyze the sentiment (happy or sad) of Tweets from around … [Read more...]
Reading a map
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...]
Libyan Revolution – view the map
The NY Times has an interactive map graphic on the crisis in Libya. The series of maps traces the development of the rebellion and unrest from February 16th to present. The basemap data shown in the NYT interactive map graphic was provided by LeadDog Consulting. Given the unrest in Libya, LeadDog has been updating the street maps daily as they receive updated information. … [Read more...]
ChesapeakeView
Maurie Kelly and her team at PASDA (part of the Penn State Institute of Energy and the Environment) have just released ChesapeakeView, a website that provides free access to remotely sensed data about the Chesapeake Bay region. The website currently holds 263 datasets related to the Chesapeake Bay region - including remotely sensed data as well as habitat, land use, … [Read more...]
Libya crisis map
Click here to check out the new Libya Crisis Map. Courtesy of Adena Schutzberg over at AllPointsBlog: OCHA, UNOSAT and NetHope have been collaborating with the Volunteer Technical Community (VTC) specifically CrisisMappers, Crisis Commons, Open Street Map, and the Google Crisis Response Team over the past week. The CrisisMappers Standby Task Force has been undertaking a … [Read more...]