Category Archive: GIS

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 …

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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!

Google Maps Help Track Typhoid Fever Outbreak Source

“To capture the information, health workers would visit a patient’s home and use GPS to capture the exact location.”

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