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August, 2012
Maps and Cartography
Time and GIS: Ways of Representing Time on a Map
Spatialtemporal visualization are ways to illustrate changes in an area over time on a map. The famous geographer Immanuel Kant maintained that geography was the study of knowledge in a location, while history was the study of knowledge in time. This article explores different cartographic methods of showing changes in time over space on a map.
Maps and Cartography
Hurricane Isaac Mapped
Projected to make landfall tonight at the southwest pass of the Mississippi River, a recently reclassified Hurricane Isaac has a lot of residents of the Gulf Coast. The hurricane is currently a category 1 with winds of 75 MPH. The hurricane is expected to make landfall later today. There are a […]
GIS Software
Excel Mapping with ArcGIS Online
Esri recently debuted the availability of Esri Maps for Office, a new component of its ArcGIS Online service that allows for the mapping of geographic data directly within Excel. Esri Maps for Office is part of Esri’s subscription based whole platform approach to mapping, meaning maps are available via the […]
GIS Data
Geography of Ancestry
What’s your geographic ancestral origin? A team of researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have created a method for more precisely pinpointing the geographic origin of a person’s ancestry by developing an understanding of the spatial diversity of genes. Single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, […]
GIS Software
Five Reasons to Start Using QGIS
For those of you still sitting on the fence about developing some hands on experience with the open source GIS platform QGIS, here are five very strong reasons to start this Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) now.
GIS Software
Making Maps With Excel
There is a huge amount of untapped geographic information stored within Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. With over one billion users of the popular spreadsheet software, that is a lot of data waiting to be mapped out. That said, the capability of mapping out that geographic data doesn’t necessarily need to be done through an external desktop GIS software application. There are a few solutions on the market that provide both free and cost-based mapping solutions that operate directly within Excel.
Spatial Analysis
Basic Uses of GIS
What are the basic uses of GIS? This article reviews some of the most common and basic users of GIS including mapping data, proximity analysis, buffers, cluster mapping, and querying a geographic area for features.
GIS Software
How To Import Data and Make Maps with Google Fusion Tables
This GIS tutorial by Naveen Sidda looks at Google Fusions Tables, how to import geographic data from a web page, and how to create map out geographic data within Google Maps.
GIS Data
Geography of the Olympic Rings
As the logo of the Olympics, the blue, yellow, black, green, and red rings against the white background were intended as a representation of the regions of the world with the colors pulled from the representing nations at the time.