PUBLIC MARKS with tag geo

A massive sinkhole near Daisetta, Texas is seen Wednesday afternoon, May 7, 2008. A zigzagging hole believed to be as long as two football fields and up to 100 feet deep continued to widen late Wednesday, threatening to gobble up nearby tanks and other oilfield equipment.

The Livedoor Blog Map finds geographical expressions from blog articles and add their latitude and longitude information to the articles. Accordingly, positions mentioned in blogs can be displayed in the "Livedoor" map, even though blog writers do not provide such information by themselves.

computer software and documentation for creating density-equalizing maps or "cartograms" using the technique described in the recent paper Diffusion-based method for producing density equalizing maps,

One place I see the desire to separate the two webs is in geolocation. Location is often billed as the next killer-app of the mobile world, and people generally assume that it is a feature that will be bound to mobile devices.

Several years ago, when Nokia bought GPS navigation company Gate5, most people were confused. When they announced Nokia Maps, it was slightly more obvious, but I think they’ve only shown off the tip of the iceberg for the Nokia Geo-Location services. Here’s why: 1. Nokia said last year that GPS would soon be a standard feature on their handsets. Today at the Mobile World Congress, they announced 4 handsets, of all range, and they all had GPS, as well as photo geotagging built-in.

Illuminating and fascinating reading on Google’s naming policy for disputed places. Commendable that their decision making process, and the process for devising that process, have been so transparently communicated.

This page collects online resources that provide geographical information, in the widest sense. So information on postal codes or the locations of IP addresses is also included.

geographical sources for many purposes.

Amateur geographers are assigning coordinates to everything they can get their hands on—and many things they can’t. “Locative artists” are attaching virtual installations to specific locales, generating imaginary landscapes brought vividly to life in William Gibson’s latest novel, Spook Country. Indeed, proponents of “augmented reality” suggest that soon our current reality will be one of many “layers” of information available to us as we stroll down the street.

The Geotag Icon is intended as a web "standard" icon for identifying geotagged content to humans.

Fire Eagle GeoJSON is fixed. Shapely is great for doing things with your data.

The World Time Engine is a service for home users and business professionals to search and compare local world times for any country, city, town, village, zip code, point of interest or geographic coordinates on earth.

Find resources to web sites about Python scripting to use in ArcGIS as well as ArcView 3.x software. Learn how to use Python to expand your geographic information system.

geohash.org offers short URLs which encode a latitude/longitude pair, so that referencing them in emails, forums, and websites is more convenient.

Yes, we created our own maps for EveryBlock. We did this because it gave us more choices and greater flexibility than we would have had if we had made yet another Google Maps mashup.

But sometimes I am fascinated at simply using geographic data for design purposes

Software on the phone sent periodic and anonymous signals about ground speed based on GPS sensor data.

[murmur] is a documentary oral history project that records stories and memories told about specific geographic locations. We collect and make accessible people's personal histories and anecdotes about the places in their neighborhoods that are important to them.

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