The U.S. Economic Development Administration and Harvard Business School have launched the U.S. Cluster Mapping and Registry project. The press release announced that the site is intended to “strengthen U.S. competitiveness by understanding the economic performance of clusters and regions across the United States.” Clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected industries and supportive organizations […]
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Maps and Cartography
Thanskgiving and Christmas Travel According to Foursquare
Foursquare has released a map showing travel via plane, train, and automobile covering the heavy travel season between October and December of 2010. Airplane travel crisscrosses the entire country with a blur of lines most densely concentrated around major cities. Travel by train seems to be concentrated mostly in a […]
Maps and Cartography
Fusing Fine Art with Cartography
David McCarter is a Geography Graduate student at California State University, Northridge, where he is specializing in Cartography and GIS. Ever since he can remember, he has had a strong interest in both art and maps. When it came time for college, he almost opted to be an art student […]
Maps and Cartography
A Stream is a Brook is a Rio
Streams go by a multitude of names in the United States and Derek Watkins has a map to illustrate that. Watkins pulled the listing of stream names from the National Hydrography Dataset and mapped out the entire contiguous United States based on the local terminology used. The actual waterways using the names […]
Spatial Analysis
2010 Mean Center of Population for the United States
The U.S. Census Bureau has announced the mean center of the United States based on the 2010 Census. The official population center as of April 1, 2010 is a location near the town of Plato in Missouri. The Census Bureau defines the mean center of population as “the place where […]