In previous posts, I've mentioned some of the cool projects that Azavea (a GIS consulting firm in Philly) is involved in. Things like... creating a mobile GIS app for cell phone users to find and map the locations of heart defibrillators across Philadelphia... launching a web map application for students, researchers and concerned citizens to map their watershed and … [Read more...]
Nate Silver maps college football geography
In a recent post on the New York Times' Quad blog, Nate Silver tackles the geography of college football allegiances. Silver - a noted statistician, blogger and election forecaster who is also credited with developing Major League Baseball's sabermetric system for predicting player performance - used data from Google web searches and the CommonCensus Sports Map project to map … [Read more...]
Google MapMaker released in U.S.
Earlier this week, Google released Google MapMaker in the U.S. The tool, which enables users to add their own point, line and polygon features to the Google basemap (e.g. coffee shops, short-cuts across campus, soccer fields) has been available internationally since 2008 as a means for generating detailed local datasets for under-mapped areas. The tools in the Google … [Read more...]
Sad maps at University of Florida
A few weeks ago I posted about Cambridge University PhD student Alex Davies' project on mapping happiness. Over at worthlessgators.com University of Florida student(?) ''Sad Hector' is doing the exact opposite - mapping sadness on University of Florida's Gainesville campus. Prompted to 'tell us where you've cried,' visitors to the site can fill out a short form (below) with … [Read more...]
Japanese earthquake – disaster/response maps
Here are some links to maps and map apps related to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. I'll add more as they are released. From Google - Japan Crisis Response Map and Japan Crisis Response Info Page ESRI Japan Incident map - click here to read a story from Voice of America about crisis mapping that describes how info gets fed into ESRI's Japan Incident map. ESRI … [Read more...]