The first new engineering building on the University of Tennessee campus in nearly 50 years — the $37.5 million Min H. Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science building — opens in January. A $12.5 million gift from Garmin co-founder and UT alum Min Kao made it possible.
- Knoxville News Sentinel
CampusTours Inc. today released a new Web site, http://www.CampusMaps.com, devoted to providing a comprehensive catalog of college and university campus maps. It links to many campus maps but the goal is to get you to use that company's services for your campus map/online tour.
- press release
I love it when my two favorite disciplines (chemistry and geography) come together.
The Chemistry Map of Scotland is an interactive online tool which allows pupils across the country to post accounts of the effect of chemistry in their local area. ...The map has been organised by the Scottish Local Sections of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) as part of the International Year of Chemistry in 2011.
The idea is for students to add data points in their local areas. Cool.
- Fife Today
Western Kentucky University Associate Professor of Geography Katie Algeo wrote "Historical GIS as a Platform for Public Memory at Mammoth Cave National Park" with graduate students Ann Epperson and Matthew Brunt. It was named 2011 Best Paper Award by the International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research.
Algeo, a cultural/historical geographer, has focused much of her research in recent years on the cultural geography of Mammoth Cave. The Mammoth Cave Historical Geographic Information Science project is dedicated to document and preserve the lives and memories of the area's pre-park residents.
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/11 at 03:00 AM |
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You can now "helicopter" in Google Maps to preview a route from the air.
To preview your own route, it is as simple as clicking on a button. Start by entering your starting point, destination, and mode of transport like any directions; in this case, driving directions from ‘Carmel CA to Big Sur CA.’ Then, just click on the “3D” play button. The map will switch to Earth view and automatically start flying you along your recommended route.
- Google Lat Long Blog
In Scotland a coastal town appears in a forest and second is mis-located on Google Maps. TomTom, which provides the data says Google is at fault. Google appologized for confusion and asked for input via the "Report a Problem" link.
- UK Daily Record
Google added a new feature called “My Location” to Maps. It uses the GeoLocation API (what I think most think of as the HTML5 geolocatoin API supported in many modern browsers) to find your approximate physical location if you let it as the starting point of a route.
- Google Lat Long Blog
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/06 at 03:00 AM |
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If you are in charge of mapping the Scottish National Park Loch Lomond, don't identify natural features with the names of park employees and don't use names that are considered offensive. The management got the message loud and clear after a new map was produced. Those who were dismayed noting not only that the names were essentially wrong and unused, but that they might also cause delay in case of an emergency in the park. A new map is in production.
- BBC
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/09 at 04:31 AM |
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