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geography
- Weekend Reading: How We Collect Data, Mapping the Camp Fire, and Earth's Great Unconformity
🗺 How We Get Data Collected in the Field Ready for Use My colleagues Bill Dollins and Todd Pollard (the core of our data team), wrote this post detailing how we go from original ground-based data collection in Fulcru…
- Weekend Reading: Mastery Learning, Burundi’s Capital, and SRTM
🎓 Mastery Learning and Creative Tasks Khan Academy’s Andy Matuschak on tasks that require “depth of knowledge” versus those that have higher “transfer demand.” Both can be considered “difficult” in a sense, but teach…
- topoView
I'm working on a special side project right now, getting myself back into cartography a bit. The last time I did any serious cartography work was with TileMill, probably 4 or 5 years ago. This time I'm trying my hand…
- A Globe of Connections
Borders in today’s world are remarkably static, ever-present lines we all get used to separating territories as if there are hard barriers to interaction between the multicolored countries of your average political ma…
- The World's Most Remote Buildings
From one of my new favorite YouTube channels, The B1M, comes this list of the most remote buildings. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is straight out of science fiction. I was curious, so I went and tracked down each on…
- China is Erasing its Border with Hong Kong
Part of Vox's Borders video series. Hong Kong is such a fascinating and unique place, as is today's China, though for massively different reasons. How China treats HK will be one of the indicators of the wider Chinese…
- An In Depth History of Maps
This is the first book review post since I put up my library section. I hope to do more of this in the future with each new book I add to the collection. Enjoy. The Story of Maps took me a while to get through, but it…
- Weekend Reading: Typing on iPad Pro, Climate Optimism, Visualizing GeoNames
📱iPad Diaries: Typing on the iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard Folio I swung through an Apple Store a couple of weeks ago to check out the new hardware. The Smart Keyboard Folio has been hard to imagine the experience…
- Teaching OpenStreetMap
We’re heading up next month to the American Geographical Society’s Geography2050 again this year, which will be my 4th one, and the 5th annual overall. It’s always a great event — a diverse crowd in attendance and a c…
- Alaska's Dalton Highway
Alan Feuer drives one of the continent's most isolated roads over Alaska's Brooks Range, from Livengood (population: 13) to the industrial oil camp of Deadhorse: It was with these thoughts that I finally got to Deadho…
- The Main Road Through the Heart of Africa
Robert Draper spent time traveling the Congo River on barges that function as mobile cities to the hundreds of small remote villages along its shores. Dawn hasn’t yet broken, but already coal fires are burning and wom…
- The Diminishing Coast
Yesterday I read this fascinating piece on the state of Louisiana's gulf coast. This slow, man-induced terraforming of the coastline is permanently eradicating bayou communities, and becoming a high-profile issue in t…
- Door to Hell
A drilling accident in 1971 in Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert created this 70 meter-wide crater, when a Soviet rig hit a cavernous pocket of natural gas. The landmark, dubbed the "Door to Hell" by the locals has been c…
- Future of Geo
I presented the day-two keynote to the CFGIS Workshop, talking about what the future of the geography and GIS discipline holds — new technologies for collaboration and sharing, the growth of the geo community an…
- Counterinsurgency, a brief history
I've been reading a lot lately about sociocultural geography — about how people interact with their environments and with one another across space and time. This topic is more relevant than ever with today's bor…