I have here three examples of “green maps” that I found when I Googled the words. I tried to find maps that weren’t just map mashups made in Google Maps (which many of the green maps looked like), but were actual productions, digital or material by a group of people for a community. The first [...]
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Googling “Green Maps”
Posted in Class Exercises on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Twitter Earthquake Detector-GIS Application
Posted in Class Exercises on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The USGS is currently developing an earthquake “detector” of sorts with the help of Twitter. With Twitter being one of the fastest ways of communicating nowadays, the Twitter Earthquake Detector (TED) is rapidly becoming a significant asset for seismologists. The TED uses an applied program that recognizes keywords in tweets across the globe such as [...]
