Northwest Passage
European Space Agency Envisat mosaic image of summer sea ice in the Arctic. I’m in Ottawa and Washington this month doing interviews for a preliminary project with Phil Steinberg (Florida State...
View ArticleManhattan’s Urban Fabric
Barcelona-based artist Liz Kueneke: Given the great number of inhabitants, all with their own perceptions and uses, there is literally an infinite amount of different meanings and interpretations of a...
View ArticleWhat should we do with GIS?
How could one avoid being just a technical end-user and late-adopter of Geographical Information Systems – that’s geodata or spatial data in other lingo : Does anyone have truly theoretical and...
View ArticleRethinking Topology and Topography
Hidden Landscapes by Chris Thompson Geographical Methodology as Spatialization and Topology (Part of “Theorizing Place: Interdisciplinary Trajectories” A Panel Discussion at the Canadian Association...
View ArticleGeo-Mashups: Mapping US Statistics
Datamasher maps US state-level statistics from the US census and other sources. An example is their map of fast-food restaurants versus obesity rates (above). Sometimes these are revealing,...
View ArticleContagious Economics
Thanks to Strange Maps, which includes a lucid discussion and comments on how Economic Crisis re-spatializes Europe… Iberia becomes the Hellenic Penninsula
View ArticleTime-Space of the Twitterverse
iA have created a visualization of the 140 most followed ‘twitter-ers’ (size of dot=followers) and their influence (algorithmic? size of grey bubble=impact) by social spheres (in pie-slices around the...
View ArticleMapping Flickr photos and Twitter tweets
Eric Fischer- Twitter and Flickr World Map - CC Cultural Product Copyright 2011 Eric Fischer of Oakland California has produced a stunning set of maps of flickr photos and Twitter tweets from...
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