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| Monday Mar 27, 2006 | The MLA has created a nifty web app that
lets you view, by state, county or zip code,
what languages are spoken in the United States.
(Pathetically, you will be forced to use IE or Netscape.) to Cartography by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Oct 2, 2005 | Common Census is a novel attempt to show the relationships Americans share geoculturally, rather than geopolitically. While not the only visual aggregation out there, it may provide effective weaponry against the dark political art of gerrymandering. to Cartography by imploded |
| Friday Aug 26, 2005 | There is the familiar state by state map, used to divide Americans; the county by county map, preferred by republicans (every wonder why they are red?); the backwards map, where red and blue are inadvertently switched; the electoral vote map; a more accurate county map that uses purple to reflect percentages; cartograms of population, electoral votes, purple cartograms; even 3-dimensional voter maps. The only thing missing is representation of the 39% that didn't vote, who number more than those who voted for either Bush or Gore. to Cartography by nucleus |
| Thursday May 26, 2005 | Google Maps
allows you to tour the United States without ever going outside.
Along the way,
you might see some interesting or pretty things.
You might even
see some UFOs.
to Cartography by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Feb 16, 2005 | While Google Maps is clearly intended to expand revenue with paid placement, creative searches reveal surprisingly accurate results. Try searching for asshole, dickhead or institutionalized economic repression in Washinton D.C. This kind of accuracy is no joke.
to Cartography by nucleus |
| Tuesday May 18, 2004 | If you've gotta go (and you're near a computer), then
AddYourOwn restroom finder
is just what you need. to Cartography by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 19, 2004 | Melissa Edwards maps
Canada with
donuts,
meat,
and
menses. to Cartography by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jun 19, 2002 | Mr. Matthew McClintock graciously invites
you to take a visual tour of his home and all its contents. to Cartography by fatherdan |
| Monday Feb 25, 2002 | Old maps can be fascinating but, by their very nature as historical
artifacts, can also contain
feature
names that are offensive to our modern sensibilities.
A cursory
place name search
of modern USGS quads will unveil several
"Negro Lakes"and "Japanese Creeks"that didn't always have these (comparatively) pleasant names. Some offensive names have been overlooked altogether, and remain on current additions of USGS maps. See if you can spot the racist place names on some of the maps that were posted earlier.
to Cartography by cadastral |
| For people with an interest in historical maps or the northeastern United States, University of New Hampshire has a historical USGS map collection online.
You'll also want to learn about standard symbols used on old maps. to Cartography by shadow |
| Sunday Feb 10, 2002 | Looking for a GPS
tracking
application? Xastir may be just the thing, even if you don't have an
amateur radio license.
to Cartography by shadow |
| Monday Jan 21, 2002 | Standardization of map symbols is a necessary component to a well organized interior survey. Sometimes this can produce a big ugly mess, but it can produce beautiful maps in a variety of different cartographic idioms. to Cartography by cadastral |
| Sunday Dec 23, 2001 | Thanks to OrthoServer and MapServer, combined with free USGS data scattered about, you can build your own aerial photo browser with additional data layers from entirely open source parts and freely distributed data. to Cartography by shadow |
| Tuesday Jul 10, 2001 | Where kudzu grows. Higher ratios of homicides to suicides. States mentioned in country music lyrics. All of these are partial answers to The South: Where is it? What is it?, a landmark cultural geography essay by John Shelton Reed. Which raises a few issues: Where are people most likely to eat dirt (pica)? Where are Hooters restaurants? Where are NASCAR tracks? Why are so many Presidents from the south? to Cartography by keiths |
| Tuesday Jun 5, 2001 | Drop a nuke wherever you want. to Cartography by nucleus |
| Monday Mar 19, 2001 | Hamrick Software has a great program you can use to visualize the distribution of surnames in the United States. After trying your name, you can search for the names of your favorite celebrities. to Cartography by therubal |
| Thursday Sep 14, 2000 | Need a bird's eye view of Pac Bell Park or the Sydney Olympics? Even better -- find your own house at GlobeXplorer. to Cartography by dennis |
| Tuesday Jan 18, 2000 | Need to find the lat/long confluence nearest you? Try topozone, the mapblast for serious cartographers. While you're looking for that big intersection near you, try joining the degree confluence project an effort to photograph all of the "latitude and longitude integer degree intersections" in the world.
Oceans excluded of course. to Cartography by reid |
| Sunday Jan 2, 2000 | All sorts of neat stuff to be had at the
Remote Sensing
web site, including a large image manipulation tool
and a tool called geotrans for doing coordinate
translation between datums. Pick them up
here to Cartography by shadow |
| Friday Dec 31, 1999 | If you live in the U.S. or are just interested in
cartography and topography,
KDem may prove quite interesting. It displays 3 dimensional elevantion models,
essentially rendering terrain. The home page also has links to sources for data. to Cartography by shadow |
| Sunday Nov 28, 1999 | Maybe you don't like those
USGS
topographic maps.
Stop your whining! Make your own! You can use the
standard symbols, the
standard colors, and
standard naming!
So what are you waiting for? Go make some maps! to Cartography by shadow |
| Saturday Nov 27, 1999 | If you wondered why those
USGS
topographic maps you downloaded seem to be scanned
crooked,
here's why. Included is a detailed explanation of what
Universal Transverse Mercator is, and why its use means
you can create mosaics from some subsets of USGS
maps, but not others. to Cartography by shadow |
| Thursday Nov 18, 1999 | Tomorrow is Ohio GIS Day
but they still don't have their
USGS topographic maps online.
Furthermore,
OGRIP lies about maps not being online. They are.
to Cartography by shadow |
| Thursday Nov 11, 1999 | The US Geological Survey
has finally started
putting quadrangle maps online, though their collection is not even
close to complete yet.
If they don't have quadrangle maps for your area online yet,
the meta-index of maps
on the GPSy site may be able to help you.
to Cartography by shadow |
| Wednesday Nov 10, 1999 | Wondering what Larry Niven's Ringworld looks like? So was an enterprising computer graphics student, who rendered the thing. to Cartography by faisal |
| Tuesday Nov 9, 1999 | A repository of
science maps! That is, if
you aren't more interested in old maps and the
history of cartography. Mapping needs still unfulfilled? Check the WWWVL's guide to
online and commercial maps
and Oddens. to Cartography by arkuat |
| Wednesday Sep 22, 1999 | They're not exactly accurate enough to target
cruise missles with, but the
U.S. Gazetteer Place and Zipcode Files
may be a good starting point for any applications
that need to know where in the US certain zipcodes are.
to Cartography by sburke |
| Thursday Aug 12, 1999 | Way back in 1897, the 45th U.S. Congress and President Rutherford
Hayes established the United
States Geological Survey, principally to help the American
mineral industry. Over a century of diligence, however, has
yielded a mountain of data about the geological makeup of our
country, including mineral and water resources, arial
photography, and the most comprehensive set of Topo Maps of any
nation on the planet (searchable by
map,
name,
zip code,
or paw through the lists by state) at
four bucks a
pop.
to Cartography by goboro |
| Wednesday Aug 11, 1999 | The
Astronomical Society of the Pacific has standing
globes of
Earth's Oceans,
Venus,
Mars,
and the Moon,
for when more ordinary globes
simply won't do. to Cartography by goboro |
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