Podcasts & Audio

Monmonier on Mapmaking Mistakes
On today’s edition of Weekend America, professor and writer Mark Monmonier is interviewed about mapping errors, beginning with GPS navigation errors — blame the maps, not the GPS signals — and moving on to what, the interviewer asks, the three… »
Posted on Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 7:49 PM
Categories: Mapping Errors, Podcasts & Audio
Festival of Maps: Field Museum Roundup
More about the Field Museum’s exhibit, Maps: Finding Our Place in the World: Antiques and the Arts Online has a rundown (via Map the Universe); Chicago Public Radio has audio from the first of a series of lectures taking place… »
Posted on Monday, December 3, 2007 at 8:37 PM
Categories: Chicago Festival of Maps, Podcasts & Audio
Waldseemüller Map Formally Transferred
This is a couple of weeks old, but I’m that far behind. The U.S. Library of Congress has been in possession of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map — you know, the first map with the name “America” on it… »
Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Podcasts & Audio
Audio: Kim Martineau on Forbes Smiley
Kim Martineau is the Hartfort Courant reporter whose first-rate coverage of the Forbes Smiley map theft case was the subject of many of my posts; since Smiley’s sentencing last fall, she’s been speaking about her experiences covering the case… »
Posted on Monday, March 19, 2007 at 2:44 PM
Categories: Map Thefts, Podcasts & Audio
Wisconsin Public Radio: Mapping the Imagination
On yesterday’s episode of Wisconsin Public Radio’s To the Best of Our Knowledge, there was a segment called Mapping the Imagination, featuring, among others, Peter Turchi, the author of Maps of the Imagination, and Simon Winchester, the author of The… »
Posted on Monday, December 4, 2006 at 8:13 AM
Categories: Podcasts & Audio
The Onion Does Maps
The Onion Radio News: Local Father Fails to Forcibly Re-Fold Map…. »
Posted on Saturday, November 4, 2006 at 4:29 PM
Categories: Podcasts & Audio
NPR: ‘It’s Like a Mountain Office Range’
NPR science correspondent Robert Krulwich had a story over the weekend about the practice of naming places after living people: in the 19th century, towns had a distinct tendency to be named after their postmasters; nowadays, though U.S. places cannot… »
Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 at 7:40 AM
Categories: Podcasts & Audio, Toponyms
Connecticut Public Radio on Forbes Smiley Sentence
Connecticut Public Radio (WNPR)’s program, Where We Live, had a long segment dedicated to the Forbes Smiley sentence on last Thursday’s program. Featured, a long interview with map dealer William Reese (see previous entry), who shared his thoughts on the… »
Posted on Monday, October 2, 2006 at 8:26 PM
Categories: Map Thefts, Podcasts & Audio
OpenStreetMap at Where 2.0
Steve Coast’s Where 2.0 talk on OpenStreetMap is now available in MP3 format from ITConversations. Via OpenGeoData. See previous entries on OpenStreetMap: OpenStreetMap Animations; Ed Parsons on OpenStreetMap; OpenStreetMap: Manchester’s Next; OpenStreetMap to Map Isle of Wight; OpenStreetMap London Poster… »
Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2006 at 4:36 PM
Categories: Conferences, Copyright, Podcasts & Audio
All Points Blog Podcast
The folks behind All Points Blog/Directions Media have started podcasting; podcast URL…. »
Posted on Saturday, August 5, 2006 at 11:12 AM
Categories: Podcasts & Audio
Thomas Guides, Navteq on KPCC
On Friday the 7th, there was an item on mapping on Patt Morrison’s afternoon show on 89.3 KPCC, a public radio station based in Pasadena, California. On deck were representatives from Thomas Brothers Maps and Navteq; much of the focus… »
Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 12:24 AM
Categories: Mapping Errors, Podcasts & Audio, Publishers, Roads, Surveying
Mark Monmonier Does NPR
Mark Monmonier appeared on NPR’s “Here and Now” yesterday to promote his new book about controversial place names, From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim and Inflame. The interview, which you can listen to with RealPlayer,… »
Posted on Friday, July 7, 2006 at 10:46 AM
Categories: Books, Podcasts & Audio, Toponyms
SXSW Audio: How to Make the Most of Maps
Via Daring Fireball, I stumble across a page of podcasts from the SXSW Interactive conference from last March, and notice that one of them is from a session about maps called “How to Make the Most of Maps.” The description:… »
Posted on Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 10:01 PM
Categories: Conferences, Hacks & Mashups, Podcasts & Audio
Where 2.0 Begins Today
Where 2.0 gets under way today in San Jose and runs through tomorrow. I won’t be there, because travelling to conferences is expensive, but a number of mapping and geospatial bloggers will be, such as Glenn from Anything Geospatial, Ed… »
Posted on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 9:02 AM
Categories: Conferences, Podcasts & Audio
Dailysonic Interview
I should have mentioned before that I did a podcast interview a few weeks ago with Dailysonic’s Adam Varga about The Map Room; it’s now online as part of Dailysonic’s February 20 episode; my segment is at minute 20. Adam… »
Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 at 8:01 PM
Categories: Podcasts & Audio
NPR on Google Maps Mashups
More radio news. Our friend Mike Pegg of Google Maps Mania was on NPR’s All Things Considered today, talking about Google Maps mashups, bien sûr; here’s the story page, from where you can listen to the audio. In referencing this… »
Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 at 10:25 PM
Categories: Hacks & Mashups, Podcasts & Audio
BBC and NPR Do Maps
Coincidentally, two public-radio programs had items on digital maps and geospatial technologies today. Both have already aired but you’ll be able to listen to them online. On BBC Radio 4, Shop Talk had a program on digital mapping with about… »
Posted on Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 1:40 PM
Categories: Podcasts & Audio
A Roundup: Society, Journal, Blog, Podcast
A few quick links for the Map Site Directory: Via MapHist, I’ve learned about the British Cartographic Society and its journal, The Cartographic Journal. ArcDeveloper is a new blog that should be of interest to ESRI GIS developers. Via Spatially… »
Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 at 5:09 PM
Categories: Blogs, Cartography, GIS, Groups & Societies, Podcasts & Audio, Scholarly Journals
More Map Podcasts
I mentioned the Very Spatial Podcast a few entries back. A couple of other GIS- or cartography-themed audio programs have turned up since then. (These two audio programs have been referred to as podcasts, but that’s not strictly true unless… »
Posted on Thursday, September 8, 2005 at 8:49 PM
Categories: Podcasts & Audio
Ten More Mapping Blogs
I posted links to a lot of new blogs next month, but Cartography’s roundup of cartography and related blogs last week brought a grand total of seven more blogs to my attention. Plus, I was already aware of Ed Parsons’s… »
Posted on Tuesday, September 6, 2005 at 8:03 AM
Categories: Blogs, GIS, Podcasts & Audio, Software

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