Ever wondered how much "nature" your lifestyle requires? You're about to find out. This Ecological Footprint Quiz estimates how much productive land and water you need to support what you use and what you discard.
After answering 15 easy questions you'll be able to compare your Ecological Footprint to what other people use and to what is available on this planet.
They do not have an extensive library like the University of Texas map room, which is by far the best, but the availability of links is a great starting point. The U of Texas map room has a huge selection of down loadable maps from everywhere in the world. Their backlog of maps is just insanely huge.
GIS PILOT GIS links for Virginia
GIS PILOT gets a visual update with new graphics and tables. The layout is the same and all the links are still available. There are still almost 2,000 GIS LINKS broken down by state and country. GIS LINKS are quickly located on the table and lead to individual pages for each section of links.
One important concern of cartography is solving how to project, i.e. transform or map points from an almost spherical lump of rock (our Earth) onto either flat sheets of paper or not-so flat phosphorus-coated glass. Find out all you need to know about Map Projections from Cartographical Map Projections.
A great collection of ancient maps. Be warned, though. The gallery is very large and will take a minute to load. But, the end results are worth it. File through over 250 maps.
Ancient Map Collection
Pressure situation! It's only the lower 48 states, so that should give you an edge. The purpose is to get the correct location of the capital in a good time.
For the second time in over a month, an earthquake has rattled the island of Hawaii. On October 15, a 6.7 magnitude quake hit the area. Today's is labled around a 4.5 to 5.0 . No Tsunami is reported to be expected from the quake
According to various unsubstantiated reports by eyewitnesses, it would appear that the 169 islands of Tonga is gaining island number 170. Developing from an undersea volcano, the new island is located between the islands of Kao in the Ha'apai Group and Late in the Vava'u Group. The Matangi Tonga news source has all the latest details.
Thanks to Matt for the article.
Since I last posted on these 2 guys hitchhiking across the US to see all 50 capitals in 50 days, they've made a lot of headway and started to drum up a little publicity for both themselves and this site.
I was lucky enough to have my post mentioned on the guys in a couple of blogs. Hopefully, there were a few extra rides comin' the guys way to make their journey a little easier. As of this post, they are in Arizona getting near the end. Hawaii is the trick. Find out how they do it at Hitch50.
Check out the mentions in MSNBC.com and ATTU's WORLD!
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Jim has been painting aerial views since 1986 and has completed over 200 illustrations for resorts, tourist bureaus, and chambers of commerce. His images are used in brochures, web sites, ads, maps, posters, art prints, signage, post cards and retail items.
What if you could fly like Superman and figure out where to meet your friends for a good meal and which routes to avoid to beat traffic?
With Live Search maps you can find yellow pages and white pages information, get live traffic conditions and view stunning 3D and Birds Eye …just as if you were gaming in Second Life, but with real-world information embedded in real-world cities where advertising really matters?
Check out our beta for Virtual Earth™ 3D , a new online mapping feature launched this week by Live Search. You can see terrain information for all over the world, and explore these U.S. urban areas with textured buildings (with many more to come in the next month!): San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Detroit, Phoenix, Houston, Baltimore, Atlanta, Denver, Dallas and Fort Worth. There is a virtual tour that you can review before diving into the goodness.
While many folks will opt to use their keyboards, you can even use an Xbox controller to navigate the three-dimensional world for greater deftness and speed.
In addition, developers can use the Virtual Earth 3D application programming interface to build these search capabilities into their own applications and Web sites. This and other APIs for Live Search are open to developers, with the option to acquire additional support and other benefits through a service-level agreement with Microsoft. Developers can find more information about the Virtual Earth API at http://dev.live.com/virtualearth and in the Virtual Earth SDK http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/. Also, contact maplic@microsoft.com for details about additional support.
Some folks in the blogosphere noticed and we appreciate it: Liveside.net , TechCrunch, Brady Forrest , Robert Scoble, Search Engine Journal to name a few. Keep talking about it and also, let us know how to improve. As with any beta product we’d love to have feedback. You can let us know on the Virtual Earth blog at http://virtualearth.spaces.live.com/, where product updates are posted continually, or use the handy feedback link at the bottom of the application.
--The Spaceland team
