Spatial Sustain inform us of a great project that the BBC has put together that is using web-maps to place world events into a locale, relatable context. For instance, the map shown here allows users to place the extent of the Pakistani floods over your postcode. Well worth a visit. For instance, I didn’t realise that the moon was about as big as Australia.
With the population of Earth now at around 7 billion, the All Points Blog have posted a collection of maps that explore what life is like on a world with a population of 7 billion people.
Mining IQ have posted an interesting Q&A with Christopher Pedler, GIS Officer at Goldfields St Ives in Kambalda WA about his experiences of working as a GIS specialist as well as his experiences more generally of working in the mining industry in Australia.
As if we didn’t need any more proof that mapping and location-based services are hot business in the smart-phone focussed world, the world’s most valuable company, Apple, recently acquired it’s second 3D mapping company.
The Council on Foreign Relations has created a map highlighting the number of outbreaks of easily preventable diseases such as measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, and rubella. Please, immunise your children.
You can also see a collection of maps that show the extent of the flooding in Bangkok.
To put the extent of the flooding in perspective, this DEM shows that there isn’t a lot of Bangkok above 2m ASL.
To put the extent of the flooding in perspective, this DEM shows that there isn’t a lot of Bangkok above 2m ASL.
Vector1 Magazine poses the question “What Do You Think GIS In The Cloud Will Be Like?” and gives their take on the future.
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