Call for Papers, Tutorials, Panels

GEOProcessing 2010: The Second International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services.

Submission Deadline: September 10, 2009
Conference Date: February 10-15, St.Maarten, Netherlands Antilles

Selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
See the Website for more details: http://www.iaria.org/conference2010/GEOProcessing10.html

Topics included are Geo-spatial fundamentals, Geo-spatial Web Services, GIS, Geo-spatial simulation and visualizaton, Geo-modeling, Digital cartography data, Earth Geo-observation, Geo-sensing, Geo-spatial domain applications, and Managing geo-spatial data.

North Korean Economy Watch thru Google Earth

Please take a look at North Korean Economy Watch site if you have not seen it yet. The creator and editor is our own GMU student, Curtis Melvin (a Ph.D student in Economics). The site provides easy access to geographic information on N. Korea's economic issues that have hardly revealed to many of us so far.

"Compiling public maps, interviews, innovative analysis, and elbow grease, the editor of this site has also created the most comprehensive mapping of North Korea that publicly exists today. You can download it onto Google Earth." See a Wall Street Journal article highlighting his work.

Geotube

Geotube, http://geovideos.gliggo.com/ is a new site for collection of Geography videos from YouTube & other online sites. You can add your own favorite Geography videos. Please check it out. (source: maps-l).

Toxmap: Environmental e-health map

Toxmap displays EPA's 2007 TRI (Toxic Release Inventory)data on interactive mode and includes the mapping of superfund sites and other chemical environmental health data. See more about Toxmap at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/toxmap.html. Explore also Toxnet (Toxicology Data Network), a collection of databases for health and environemntal professionals. Source: National Library of Medicine.

Interactive Map showing Immigration...

Please explore this map site to see how a foreign born group settled across the U.S.:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html?hp

The 2008 tiger/Line Shapefiles

were posted on the Census Bureau Website. You can download at:
http://www2.census.gov/cgi-bin/shapefiles/national-files. Or ftp them: ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2008

My Visited State Map

You can create your own map showing the states that you have visited. See where I have been:
visited 39 states (78%)
Create your own visited map of The United States or try another Douwe Osinga project It's a fun tool.