Category: geography
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Discovery Education and Google Earth
Thanks to Miguel for alerting me to the “Google Earth to Get Discovery Video” article in yesterday’s Washington Post. (I am incidentally impressed that the news article already includes a cross-link to Miguel’s blog!) According to the article: Over the next few weeks, Google’s program [Google Earth] will begin including a globe icon, linking users…
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Skull Island Game
Find Skull Island is a flash-based, online game requiring the use of Google Earth along with the website. The idea is cool, and the price is right, but the primary purpose of the website (sponsored by Universal) is to get users to buy the “King Kong DVD” when it is released on April 10th. Still,…
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Tracking relatives via cell phone GPS
This evening I found an outstanding, short screencast (m4a podcast) from KoKae Screencasts about how GPS technologies have become wedded to geographic information system visualization tools like Google Earth. Yes, we’ll soon be able (if desired) to track the live location on the planet of our loved ones (or others) with periodic GPS location packets…
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Semapedia and GIS for the People
Have I mentioned lately how much I love web 2.0 tools and geography? I am playing with Google Earth today in preparation for tomorrow’s keynote in Fort Worth, and discovered Semapedia. According to the creators of Semapedia: Our goal is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the best information from the internet…
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PlaceOPedia
PlaceOPedia is a web 2.0 service connecting WikiPedia articles to geography. As a geographer myself, I am absolutely loving Google Earth and all the geographically-enabled web 2.0 services that are now available. I need to spend several hours playing with Google Earth like some of my friends did at FETC last week. I’ll be sharing…
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One Laptop per Child website
The MIT led One Laptop per Child initiative has launched a new website, http://laptop.org. The site includes a map showing countries where OLPC plans to pilot their project (green), countries that have expressed interest in the project at the ministry of education level or higher (orange), and those countries who are seeking governmental support (yellow):…
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ClustrMaps
It’s a small world after all. Every once in awhile a web 2.0 technology, website, or service makes me exclaim loudly and almost (or actually) fall out of my chair. ClustrMaps is the cause today. The map below shows the locations of over 200 different people who have visited my blog in the last 24…
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Flickr via Flash and Karakorams
FlAppr is a flash-based front-end, or interface, for Flickr that requires the latest version of Flash Player (8). Think of FlAppr as an even cooler way to explore Flickr images and connect with Flickr-posting photographers than the “regular” web browsing Flicker website method. I love the flag feature: Click on a nation’s flag in FlAppr…