Category Archive: GIS

Tap Tap Maps!

GIS peeps should keep tabs on this one:  Tap Tap Maps promises to make a smooth integration between ESRI online products and Apple and Android Apps.  Supposedly it will be a very easy transition from one medium to the other, sweet!

Time Laps of fly over Earth

Stunningly beautiful videography edited seamlessly as fly-overs taken from space.

XKCD: Map Projections

… and what they say about you.

Map of “Failed States”: EPI

EPI Study suggests that lack of access to birth control and education causes women to have more children, increasing the population and putting more strain on the resources of the a nation. From Wikipedia This text was written by the staff of the Earth Policy Institute: After a half-century of forming new states from former …

Continue reading »

Mapping Rain Forests in 3D

…a biological survey of a never-before-explored tract of remote and inaccessible cloud forest. They are doing so using an advanced system that enables them to map the three-dimensional physical structure of the forest as well as its chemical and optical properties…

Map Blankets: Cuddle with Space

What a neat idea!  As a map-maker and crafter I find this combines the whole of my existence… sort of.  From Haptic, I give you Soft Maps!

Older posts «