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Simple Google Maps | drupal.org
gis  drupal  module 
february 2012 by epersonae
Salish Sea Map
beautiful. (might be useful for a potential D&D project, too.)
local  pretty  gis  eco  gaming 
january 2012 by epersonae
Replogle Globes - How Old is Your Globe? History, Geography and International Politics
I love old maps, and this is awesome. How to tell the age of your globe (or map, presumably) by the country names. (I want to make a list of the asterisk'd countries, which have gone thru multiple name changes.)
gis  history 
september 2011 by epersonae
NavDroyd - Android Market
uses OpenStreetMap maps with downloadable maps.
android  gis 
august 2011 by epersonae
Hexographer
create (semi-)random game maps.
gaming  gis 
april 2011 by epersonae
Birdseye View of San Gabriel, California – 1893
Oh, wow, this one has the Mt Lowe Railway! (I've been hiking in some of the ruins of that.) I see the city where I was born on the legend, but can't find it on the actual map.
gis  history  californication 
april 2011 by epersonae
Birdseye view of Olympia, Washington – 1879
this blog is awesome!
gis  infographic  local  olympia  history 
april 2011 by epersonae
Map of How Manhattan’s Grid Grew - Interactive Map - NYTimes.com
LOVE this sort of thing. Maps + history = awesome. Really want to see for Olympia.
history  gis  infographic 
march 2011 by epersonae
National Broadband Map
gis  wifi  misctech  urbanstudies  webdev 
february 2011 by epersonae
Introducing Carto: A CSS-like Map Styling Language | Development Seed
beautiful.
gis  drupal  css 
february 2011 by epersonae
Colorbrewer: Color Advice for Maps
helps pick shades for maps (and presumably other visualizations) that are generally safe for color-blind users. (And look pretty nice in general!)
accessibility  gis  webdev 
february 2011 by epersonae
UEP232/ENV193 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Urban and Environmental Analysis, Fall 2007 - Tufts OpenCourseWare
gis  academia 
january 2011 by epersonae
MIT OpenCourseWare | Urban Studies and Planning | 11.520 A Workshop on Geographic Information Systems, Fall 2005 | Home
gis  academia 
january 2011 by epersonae
how to include ability to get directions in gmap, map | drupal.org
comment number 18 has a rough option, which I used inside of a theme. works well enough.
google  drupal  modules  gis 
december 2010 by epersonae
Mapping America
2010 census data!
gis  ena  local  politics  society 
december 2010 by epersonae
map011_l.JPG (689×788)
a "sample" map? (from C by email.)
gis  history  gaming 
october 2010 by epersonae
Google LatLong: Finding Places on the Web: Rich Snippets for Local Search
just got this working! cool!
gis  google  drupal  html5  webdev 
september 2010 by epersonae
Hexographer Hex Map Software: Home
free java app.
gaming  gis 
september 2010 by epersonae
Build a GMap macro | Vince Smith
google  gis  drupal  modules 
july 2010 by epersonae
The Agnostic Cartographer - John Gravois
"How Google’s open-ended maps are embroiling the company in some of the world’s touchiest geopolitical disputes."
google  politics  gis 
july 2010 by epersonae
The Golden Hour Calculator / Sunrise and Sunset information for photographers
well, if we get sun again...
photography  reference  gis 
may 2010 by epersonae
Google hiring 300 workers to pinpoint bugs in Google Maps
neat! (in Kirkland)
local  gis  google  misctech 
may 2010 by epersonae
Welcome to the Quantum GIS Project
"QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)."
gis 
may 2010 by epersonae
GeoDa Center & Affiliated Software | GeoDa Center
"software programs developed by the GeoDa Center and affiliates (R-Geo)" ASU, more academically oriented
gis  academia 
may 2010 by epersonae
GeoCommons
gis 
may 2010 by epersonae
indiemapper - Free yourself from GIS
takes both shapefiles and KML.
gis 
may 2010 by epersonae
About MapBox
"MapBox is a suite of open source tools that help you create beautiful custom maps in Amazon's cloud." looks like it's used by the Managing News (drupal distro)
gis  drupal 
may 2010 by epersonae
Why I Can’t Get As Excited About Geolocation as Scoble | Michelle's Blog
"I’ve had some not so pleasant experiences with someone who felt compelled to tell me that I couldn’t block him from certain circles of my life" (she doesn't talk about gender explicitly, but that's a big part of it IMO.)
society  blogosphere  gis  mobileweb  gender 
march 2010 by epersonae
United States of Food
lots of graphics!
politics  food  society  gis 
march 2010 by epersonae
Rethinking Open Data - O'Reilly Radar
interesting comments.
politics  local  gis  misctech  urbanstudies  webdev 
february 2010 by epersonae
electoral college reform
this one is a bit different (State of Olympia FTW!)
gis  politics 
january 2010 by epersonae
Thought experiment - James Fallows
"a division of the country into 50 state units with more-or-less equal population and preserving existing boundaries where possible" the map on this page is not the same as the one he links to.
gis  politics 
january 2010 by epersonae
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | 19th Century Maps by Children
"In the 18th and 19th centuries, children were taught geography by making their own maps, usually copies of maps available to them in books and atlases at their schools or homes." fascinating. cool drawings!
history  gis  arts  academia 
january 2010 by epersonae
South Sound Tour of Lights - Google Maps
Luke one-ups the Olympian by putting their list of light displays into an actual map. (I'm boggled that his house isn't on it, frankly.)
gis  google  local  holiday  news  ena  olympia 
december 2009 by epersonae
unemployment rates by county (animation)
truly brutal to watch.
gis  politics  finance 
november 2009 by epersonae
OpenGeoData » The Cake Test
"A set of geodata, or a map, is libre only if somebody can give you a cake with that map on top, as a present."
gis  opensource 
november 2009 by epersonae
How to Make a US County Thematic Map Using Free Tools | FlowingData
svg + python!
gis 
november 2009 by epersonae
Google Maps Navigation….not huge…yet
"until they work with local agencies to enable real-time routing based on construction closures frustration will still abound" from WADOT employee. damn good point!
gis  google  local 
october 2009 by epersonae
About P[articipatory ]GIS
fairly impenetrable language, but an interesting idea.
gis  politics 
october 2009 by epersonae
EveryBlock source code released / The EveryBlock Blog
oooh, I was waiting for this! would love to play around with this for oly.
local  olympia  gis  opensource  journalism 
july 2009 by epersonae
Open info window from link on another page? | drupal.org
another issue item. looking a little gobledegook to me.
drupal  google  gis 
april 2009 by epersonae
Display a block with text-links to nodes on the map. | drupal.org
issue posted in the gmap module. ::crickets::
drupal  google  gis 
april 2009 by epersonae
Google Maps API Tutorial
clickable sidebar. I have this working well on the current site, having trouble figuring out how to do it with drupal
drupal  google  reference  gis 
april 2009 by epersonae
NRDC: Clean Energy and Conservation
"to find the best sites for new clean energy projects and transmission lines, so that America can harness renewable power while doing the least damage to the Western environment. [...] Working with Google Earth, NRDC has developed this interactive resource" a Google Earth layer indicating sensitive areas in the west.
google  eco  gis 
april 2009 by epersonae
Washington Military Department Emergency Management Division - Disaster Preparedness - Map Your Neighborhood - Why Map Your Neighborhood?
as mentioned at last night's ENA meeting?
ena  olympia  local  gis 
february 2009 by epersonae
Dynamic Maps of Bank Card and Mortgage Delinquencies in the United States
from the New York fed. datalicious.
finance  gis 
october 2008 by epersonae
The United States of Mind - WSJ.com
"Based on more than 600,000 questionnaires and published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, the study maps regional clusters of personality traits, then overlays state-by-state data on crime, health and economic development in search of correlations." fun with maps & personality testing! (I like the term "stress belt". May I also suggest "lonely corner" for the Pac NW?)
society  psychology  gis  weird 
october 2008 by epersonae
Tracking your Cat with GPS
I TOTALLY want to do this with our little gang.
cats  gis  weird 
october 2008 by epersonae
Drupal 5 Custom GMap Node | Alan Palazzolo
this is about exactly what I want, and what I can't seem to do with "Gmaps View" in Views.
drupal  google  gis 
october 2008 by epersonae
Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Ubiquity
omg the craziness. browsers are doing such interesting things these days!
browsers  gis  weird  blogosphere 
september 2008 by epersonae
Wanderlust: GOOD traces the most famous trips in history
trips both actual and literary. I just love map stuff.
gis  history  writing 
august 2008 by epersonae
Cool Tool: Free topo maps
had not ever heard of the Teslin paper before. potentially VERY useful!
google  gis  travel 
august 2008 by epersonae
Capitol Campus: Olympia, 1872-2012
cool! old photos, plus Google Earth overlay screenshots. (Also, people have been getting pissy about views around here since at least the 1920s.)
history  gis  local  olympia  photography 
july 2008 by epersonae
Census Atlas of the United States
mappy goodness. (C worked on the 2000 census doing "non-response follow-up" -- crazy stuff.)
gis  society  reference 
july 2008 by epersonae
The EveryBlock FAQ
"In June 2009, when our grant period is over, we’ll be releasing our site’s source code free to the public, under an open-source license. More on this in a subsequent FAQ answer." hmmmm.
local  gis  ena  olympia  checkback 
june 2008 by epersonae
Northwest Hiking Guide | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA
how clever. might be useful for some little outings this spring/summer.
local  exercise  to-do  gis  google 
april 2008 by epersonae
America's Most Sinful Cities - Forbes.com
Seattle ranks high in avarice, envy, and lust. (Avarice & envy seem like flip sides of the same issue.)
seattle  society  weird  gis 
april 2008 by epersonae
Mailbox Map - A google mashup to locate blue USPS mailboxes, Post Offices and UPS Stores
why yes, I have procrastinated on my taxes. why do you ask? ;)
google  reference  gis  local 
april 2008 by epersonae
A List Apart: Articles: Take Control of Your Maps
If I can figure it out, this solves my GMaps https problem at work! Yay!
gis  google  to-read 
april 2008 by epersonae
The Other 95 Artesian Wells in Downtown Olympia | OlyBlog
a particularly nice bit of photojournalism for OlyBlog. it would be way cool to have these spots (from all 3 surveys!) on an online map.
local  olympia  eco  photography  history  gis 
april 2008 by epersonae
A fantastic pair of maps, courtesy of Strange Maps: -... (kottke.org)
(with 2 bonus maps!) moonwalks transposed onto sports fields.
space  science  gis  weird 
march 2008 by epersonae
wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle
"It’s a simple site that does just one thing: show you a list of the five Wikipedia pages that are geographically closest to your current location." whoa.
gis  google  mda  weird  webdev 
march 2008 by epersonae
ongoing · Tolkien at Bedtime
links to ginormous vector map. download later.
writing  gaming  gis  checkback 
march 2008 by epersonae
Mashups: Show GCal Events on Google Maps
might do that for the ENA site?
google  gis  to-do  ena 
february 2008 by epersonae
Dynamic Time-Travel Maps From MySociety and Stamen
housing in that area must be horrifically expensive. I tried to use my current public transit travel time (40 minutes) and the current value of my house (wild-ass-guess/currency conversion 70K pounds) -- it's not physically possible. had to go to 90 mins
gis  urbanstudies  webdev 
january 2008 by epersonae
Zillow Releases Neighborhood Boundaries
crazy!
gis  ena 
january 2008 by epersonae
Official Google Maps API Blog: ExtInfoWindow 1.0: Ajax powered, CSS customization
"an "extended" info window that allows much more customization than the standard info window" -- that could be useful.
google  gis 
december 2007 by epersonae
Christopher West's Cartographical World
pretty maps
gaming  gis 
november 2007 by epersonae
Photos taken in Olympia on Flickr!
Ooooh, potential hours of fun. Right now, the main pic on the page is the spooky mirrored state HR building downtown. I don't know how many times I've checked my hair, etc. in that window.
photography  gis  local  olympia 
november 2007 by epersonae
Google Code FAQ - Using PHP/MySQL with Google Maps
this, too. or at least I could improve what I've already got.
gis  google  php 
november 2007 by epersonae
Google Maps PHP Class: Phoogle Maps
there's a chance this could be useful.
php  gis  google 
november 2007 by epersonae
Hexes for mapping
email that guy & ask for "eps"
gaming  gis 
november 2007 by epersonae
Number Of Inhabitants Per Medical Doctor
re: sub-saharan africa -- imagine if the whole city of Olympia had 1 or 2 doctors. the whole city.
gis  health  society 
november 2007 by epersonae
ZIPskinny - Get the Skinny on that ZIP (demographics by ZIP Code)
census data. fascinating, but a little hard to read, and an outline of the Zip code area would be helpful.
gis  local  ena  urbanstudies 
october 2007 by epersonae
411: Microsoft Offers "Live Search 411," Mobile Updates
will have to give this a try.
mda  gis 
october 2007 by epersonae
Get Lat Lon - find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map
Neat! My wish list: an address entry box, which I don't know if that's any good outside the US, but sure would make it faster to use. (Oh, hey, he just changed the starting point from UK to North America & Europe all at once.)
google  gis  reference 
october 2007 by epersonae
Google Maps, HTML version
no kidding. hm.
gis  google  accessibility 
october 2007 by epersonae
radicalcartography
trippy stuff. the map of the US is well worth a look.
gis  reference 
october 2007 by epersonae
API Feature Requests - Google Maps API | Google Groups
people really are begging for this.
creditunion  google  gis  security 
october 2007 by epersonae
https (SSL) access to Google Maps script - Google Maps API | Google Groups
hell and/or damn. this is so very frustrating. (branch maps.)
google  gis  creditunion  security 
october 2007 by epersonae
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