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Recent Entries

• The Web Goes Local (July 3)
• New Digital Elevation Model Covers 99 Percent of the Earth (July 1)
• Derrick Story on Geotagging (June 29)
• Divine Sky: The Artistry of Astronomical Maps (June 29)
• Georeferenced Old Maps on the iPhone (June 28)
• Obama’s Map (June 28)
• Decorating with Maps (June 28)
• Real-Time Pollution Maps in Cambridge (June 28)
• Society of Cartographers Summer School 2009 (June 28)
• Cahill’s Butterfly Map vs. Fuller’s Dymaxion Projection (June 26)

Recent Comments

• Kevin on Obama’s Map (June 29)
• Jerod Poore on Determining a Map’s Age (June 24)
• IanR on Determining a Map’s Age (June 23)
• Chris Lawrence on Geolocation and the iPhone’s Web Browser (June 23)
• GeoWebGuru.com on GIS Web Maps to Critique Web Mapping Applications (June 19)
• GeoWebGuru.com on Geologic Atlas of Texas (June 15)
• Roger_Hart on xkcd on Google Latitude (June 13)
• LH2004 on Cartography Snafus in NATO Map Game (May 25)
• CraigD on Maps of Manhattan that Bend Upwards (May 3)
• natef on Location Privacy (April 26)