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Saturday, 21 May 2011

Arctic Dreams, Part II

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As the Arctic comes under more scrutiny in the news , I'm reminded of my visit up there 25 years ago when we actually thought of global ...
Friday, 13 May 2011

More temporal web maps

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Here is last year's Fenlands mashup on 2nd gen. beta GisCloud.com (this data is also posted on the UK academic ShareGeo site and the d...
Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Critical mass, satellite imagery and GIS

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Satellite imagery has been around for almost as long as GIS, and the following may just make them so easy they finally gain momentum. The sa...
Monday, 4 April 2011

Who said history or surveying had to be boring?

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My friend Brent Jones' video is worth watching only for his tongue-in-cheek humour. I thought only Cambridge dons remembered that Newton...
Thursday, 31 March 2011

Another Take on Climate Change, Part IV

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[ Update: Part V , more on polar wanderings ] From guardian.co.uk today : Goce satellite maps the Earth's gravity in unprecedented pr...
Saturday, 26 March 2011

"... with a little help from my friends"

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On my 100th posting last week I found some interesting statistics. I use Google's Blogger for its sheer simplicity. And I just found out...
Saturday, 19 March 2011

Another Take on Climate Change, Part III

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[ Update : Part IV , more on mapping earth gravity ] The time-space map I looked for in Part II is on esri.com... among many others for ...
Monday, 14 March 2011

The stunning beauty of Maps, part III

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History and current events are a great opportunity for GIS as they allow to disseminate pertinent information fast to those who need it. The...
Friday, 11 March 2011

Another Take on Climate Change, Part II

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[ Update 2 :   thanks Greg Cocks for this  April 2019   update Update 1: Part III , more on plate boundary earthquakes] A year ago today...
Saturday, 5 March 2011

Google Fusion Tables for Current Affairs

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[ Update:  I noted on many of my  Google Fusion Table posts  that, while the data are still on Google Drive for you to view, GFT no longer o...