
The All Points Blog has a post outlining some recent Health GIS news, the most interesting of which talks about the holiday destinations that will make you put on the most weight (spoiler: the US is no. 1).
It’s great to see a high profile publication feature GIS, and that’s what happened last week, when the NY Times featured a story on spatial humanities.
O’Reilly Radar has a post talking of his experiences travelling out to Mono Lake when his dependence on phone reception and digital information became painfully obvious. It echoes the oft-heard sentiment: are we relying too much on digital information?
Google Maps Mania show us a map of the tribal marae of Aotearoa New Zealand. A marae is a communal or sacred place, the centre of Maori identity and activity. Maori Maps is a nationwide map of Aotearoa marae, with photos of each marae, contact and background information, and photographs. Currently the map displays marae in the Tai Tokerau (Northland) and Tamaki (Auckland) regions. Eventually the map will show all of Aotearoa’s more than 800 ancestral marae.
At the risk of repeating myself, I can’t help but point you toward another Google Maps Mania post, containing three interesting maps; hand-drawn maps; videos from the 10.10.10 project; and a kaleidoscopic map creator.
Slashgeo has a worrying post talking about how Microsoft has (inadvertently?) exposed the location of millions of phones and PCs the world over.
Oh my. I’m so sorry. Here is another Google Maps Mania post, but I thought it was really, really interesting, so I just had to post it. It’s all about Geohashing. Geohashing is a ‘spontaneous adventure generator’ and creates a randomised set of nearby coordinates for you to visit and document. And I think that’s pretty cool.