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I’ve set up feeds on Twitter for posts to APB (http://twitter.com/directionsapb) and new articles on Directions Magazine (http://twitter.com/directionsmag). We offer this as yet another way to keep up with our content. RSS feeds and newsletters will continue to be available for those who like those distribution mechanisms. At this time I have no plans to create a Twitter feed for press releases, but let me know if you think that’d be valuable.

Off the Beaten Path Geo Conference Speaker Recommendation

I don’t know Robert Gaskell but from what I read, he’d make a great keynote speaker at one of our conferences! He maps bodies in solar system to 40 centimeters (yes, higher res than our commercial satellites!) using tereo-photo-clinometry techniques which use light from various directions to develop 3D terrain models. From what I read there’s a bit of Photosynth-y stuff going on, too: “Gaskell has created sophisticated software that combines hundreds of spacecraft images of varying resolution to produce the maps.” I for one want to learn more about that!

- Astrobio.net

Eureka! No More Mylar Maps

Headline: Small rural county comes to rescue of small rural city.

Eureka Springs Arkansas looks like they won’t have to use mylar maps anymore. Carroll County in which Eureka Springs is located is willing to help replace some out-dated maps. According to the Lovely County Citizen (yes, that’s the name of the newspaper), the county has a contract with a Little Rock firm to fly and map the region and is willing to offer digital data to the city. With the commentary we received on our blog post on Cass County Indiana, it’s nice to hear of a situation in which sharing and support can work the other way too.

Podcast: The Democratic Convention’s Texting Map

It’s not news that the Obama campaign has been a great user of technology up to this point. Last week, at the Democratic National Convention, the campaign used live maps to engage, enable and incite its supporters. We look at what was so special about this use of maps, why it worked and how the basic idea might be used elsewhere.

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Stormpulse Tracks Gustav

In following the news coverage of Hurricane Gustav this morning, I found that Stormpulse has an exceptional mashup to do "live" tracking of the storm. Stormpulse’s interact maps will also show the viewer other active storms such as those currently in the Atlantic Ocean that are either tropical storms or named hurricanes. What I find unique about Stormpulse is the ability to turn on/off the predictive models for the possible storm tracks. Use the radio buttons in the upper right corner of the mashup to view them.