January 2004
- Eurasian SRTM Data
- SpaceDaily reports that NASA has released data covering Eurasia from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). [T]he new digital elevation data set showcases some of Earth’s most diverse, mysterious and extreme topography. Much of it previously had been very poorly…
- Logarithmic Maps of the Universe
- These logarithmic maps of the universe measure the distance from the Earth’s core to absolutely everything, from kilometres to megaparsecs, from the mantle to the microwave background of the universe (via Cartographie tribe)….
- Iowa Caucuses
- If you liked the California recall maps that did neat stuff with the county-by-county results (see previous entry), you’ll enjoy what those maps’ creator, Jonathan Corum, has done with the Iowa Caucuses: he’s devised a way to map Iowa that…
- Lunar Atlases
- Lunar Atlases brings together a couple of atlases of the moon and other lunar photography. The atlases are comprised of photographs taken by lunar orbiters rather than traditional atlas maps. The photos are sorted by feature and coordinates, though. Via…
- Beyond Red and Blue
- U.S. political discourse talks about “red” (Republican) and “blue” (Democrat) states. In “Beyond Red and Blue”, Robert David Sullivan rejects this model as reductionist, instead preferring to split the country into 10 non-contiguous, but politically distinct, regions. (I remember reading…
- Visited Countries, Land Geist
- Thomas sends a link to Visited Countries, which generates an on-the-fly GIF of a world map showing the countries you have visited. A little mucking about Douwe Osinga’s web site reveals a whole stack of similar web-based projects, including Land…
- Geist Mapper
- Owen sends along a link to this profile, in the Victoria Times-Colonist, of Melissa Edwards, the person behind Geist magazine’s quirky Caught Mapping feature. See previous entries: Caught Mapping, Caught Mapping Archives….
- GPS Replies
- I did get a couple of replies during the downtime to my post asking for suggestions about the best GPS receiver for my needs. Eric Arnold, who works at the University of Tennessee Map Library in Knoxville, mentioned the Garmin…
- Bam After the Earthquake
- This is a little dated now for breaking news; I was saving it during the downtime. But still relevant: one-metre-resolution satellite images of Bam, Iran, after the earthquake. Via Here Be Dragons….
- Lewis and Clark Exhibition
- “Lewis & Clark: The Maps of Exploration, 1507-1814 examines the planning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the cartographic tradition that made the expedition possible.” An exhibition at the University of Virginia Library. Via The Cartoonist. See previous entries:…
