Posts from ‘October, 2007’

Have you ever done a Google search on the word GEO?
Here’s a list of what you get:

Geen Expression Omnibus (GEO)
GEO TV
The GEO Group Inc
.geo - Wikipedia entry
Global Environment Outlook (GEO)
Geocaching
W3C Semantic Web Interest Group: Basic Geo Vocabulary
The Guitar Effects Oriented Web Page
geo - Microformats
GeoPlugin - WordPress Plugin Repository
EO (magazine)
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
GEO Profiles Home
geo-* (Linux [...]

This is an email written by Poul-Henning Kamp back in Oct 1999 in response to a thread he started innocently enough. He works (had worked?) on the FreeBSD operating system and his initial thread was entitled “sleep(1) should do fractional seconds” Not a big deal you say??? Well, that’s the [...]

I took a look at James Fee’s blog this morning. This is probably one of the most tagged personal Geo blogs I’ve seen.
Anyways, James mentions a map that Disney has on their site showing the route for a 13K and 6.5K run at the MGM studios that was to take place on October 27. [...]

Just did a quick serach for cool Google Mashups and found some of these.
The site I picked out of the bunch was a concept that I found interesting when I was naming my son four years ago.
http://www.babynamemap.com/
Take a look to see just how spatial things like names can be!!!
Here are a few other cools mashups:

Google [...]

Sometimes Google Earth is the easiest choice for creating simple data features, especially when it comes to teaching a non-GIS user how to do so. Aside from the expectation that someone obtains, installs, and understands how to move around in ArcGIS, the readily available imagery in Google Earth just seems ample enough to create [...]

I was looking for a few Google Maps examples for a simple Google map with multiple location geocoding and information blocks that pop up with details on each location and a “directions” link. This is something fairly simple, but it’s always good to see how others are doing this.
As with most things, when you [...]

This will be a space where I’ll share some cool sites that I’ve happened upon. Maybe this will help me (and you) to come up with the next geospatial “whiz bang” solution!! Well, maybe it’ll just be fun!
OK. So - I’m a mother of two with a house that always seems [...]