Tuesday, January 27, 2009

And so the semester begins


Advanced Digitcal Cartography, Aerial Photography, Meteorology and Climate - all interesting class this semester. Should be a good semester. So it begins.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Just for fun

I had the pleasure of talking to the good people at GeoEye on GIS DAY at mason, very cool people with very interesting plans, along with their brand new GeoEye-1 Earth Imaging Satellite

although most people have seen this image already, here it is again:

http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/gallery/detail.aspx?iid=220&gid=1

Spring Semester

And so a new semester starts. Winter break is over, inauguration just passed, and many maps have already been made to reflect it.

here are some maps showing the inauguration.

A very cool one with lots of info:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/inauguration-map.htm

This is a blog but shows a good process of them making an inauguration map:
http://geopdf.blogspot.com/2009/01/inauguration-map.html

And of course, CNN always has good maps:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/map/