Welcome to this week’s Best of Blogs!
GIS Lounge have a post outlining a project put together by National Geographic that hopes to uncover the lost tomb of Genghis Khan through crowd-sourcing. Basically, they want you to start searching the images for any features of interest. It’s a great example of the power of crowd-sourcing, and the way that science (in this case, archaeology) is tapping into the power of the hive.
There is a growing food crisis happening in America right now, due to its crumbling economy. While I note that there’s a certain irony in one of the world’s fattest countries running out of food, it’s real, and it’s happening. Spatial Sustain has a post talking about a map that shows the areas most hit, and talks about the data used in creating the map.
Vector One draws its readers’ attention to the recently lost Russian ‘Express-AM4’ satellite, and the possibility that it may smash into one of the many functioning satellites floating around our blue planet. If it does, who is liable?
News on the hurricanes that swept the East Coast of the US is rife, but O’reilly radar has an interesting post on how this hurricane is different from the rest, in that the internet now plays a bigger part in communication than ever before. The post outlines some of the really interesting web maps that tracked the hurricane, as well as some of the innovative ways that authorities distributed information, spatial or otherwise.
Got GeoInt has a great post all about the desire for flight that that has run trough human-kind since our first days on this earth. Follow the link for recaps of early efforts of flight, the skinny on whether Leonardo Da Vinci actually flew, all about the Wright brothers, the first satellite, and a memorable film clip.
Another post from Got GeoInt, this time drawing our attention to a recent study that found a link between conflict and climate cycles, bringing yet another topic to consider during the oncoming years while the planet heats up.
And, finally, for the aerial image aficionado, VerySpatial point us toward a recent Wired article that shows some amazing aerial/satellite imagery of the US’s national parks.
Until next week, my friends. Don't forget, if you see anything great, send it through to @SpatialSource or schester [at] intermedia dot com dot au
