“Expectation” by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada
Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada is responsible for some of the biggest (and best) art in the world. So big, in fact, that it requires satellites to view. Google Earth Blog put together a KMZ file with some of the Rodriguez-Gerada’s most renowned works.
I thought I was crazy about maps. That is, until I heard this guy’s story. Artist Jerry Gretzinger spent 30 years creating a map of a fictional world, where growth, decay and destructive “voids” are decided by a god-like deck of playing cards. Let the video on Maps Mania explain.
Vox published a compilation 27 hilariously bad maps that explain nothing, including a world map detailing super bowl wins by country (all USA), and a map of the world showing just two nations: Russia and not-Russia.
Think you know a thing or two about maps? If you don’t know the words graticule, cartouche, gores, then HERE blog has twelve mapping words to make you sound like you know what you’re talking about.
If you use Facebook messenger on your phone (remember we were forced into doing it), you are also allowing access to your location data. Geoawsomeness has revealed how this data can be used to see your friend’s location without their knowing using this Harry Potter-inspired chrome extension, Marauder’s Map. Creepiness has never been so magic.
With so much going on in the tech world, it’s easy to lose sight of the changes emerging in our own industry. Coming from a more economical perspective, Datanami has identified five ways in which big data will affect the geospatial industry.
Recent satellite analysis by NASA concluded that the remaining Larsen B ice-shelf will disintegrate by the end of the decade. The ESRI blog has the images and videos for you to remember this 3,250 km², 12,000-year-old giant by.
We are also killing the Colorado, and you can view the destruction with this beautiful strip map by Propublica that lets you scroll down the river one giant industrial project at a time (shared by Maps Mania).
