by Jeff on October 15, 2008 at 4:50PM
Want to stay on top of what’s new in the blogosphere related to your industry? Planet Geospatial aggregates content from the past 2-3 days for over 50 spatial data and GIS blogs, as well as a smattering of mapping-focused ones. Think this might be too much content to weed through? Use the Planet Geospatial Scrubber to exclude blogs you don’t care about.
You may know the site’s creator, James Fee – he also runs the Spatially Adjusted blog (which, by the way, has featured some very funny images recently).
On Planet Geospatial, Fee periodically changes the roster of blogs as he discovers and ads new gems. The complete current list is always viewable from the right-hand side subscription menu.
A few included now are: Mapping Hacks, All Points Blog, The Map Room and Thinking in GIS. Recent posts feature everything from “Election Ad Spending Map” – to - “KML Layer Support Growing in WWJava“. Check it all out at http://www.planetgs.com!
by Jeff on September 17, 2008 at 9:13AM
Map Hawk: Watching How the Media Communicates with Maps is a very interesting and timely (with the upcoming elections) new blog started by Joe Francica 3 months ago. You may recognize Joe’s name; he is the Editor-in-Chief of Direction Magazine, the All Points Blog and all other Directions Media publications.
Through Map Hawk, Joe offers his opinion on how successfully various media outlets are using maps, mapping technology and location based data to communicate with readers. In some cases he congratulates, like in this post on the WSJ’s Hurricane Ike storm surge maps. In others, he highlights ineffective or even misleading applications. Take his post on Inc. Magazine’s Impossible (To Read) Top 500 Map as and example.
Other interesting recent posts have covered the need to plan election strategy and show race coverage by ZIP Code; a review of the maps provided by the media for the Georgian conflict this summer; and a critic of PBS and USA Today’s coverage of the Arctic mapping mission announced by NOAA.
So next time you see a map on the evening news, in your favorite newspaper or online, check out Map Hawk to comment on it!