]> http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi Dr Mike J Smith: applied research and teaching in GIS en () Copyright {{{items}}} http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/logo.gif http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/teaching/stoning.html I can't really add to much more to Garr's blog entry, other than to point you to the short essay/editorial that appeared in Ground Water back in 1985 (Lehr, J... /teaching 2013-05-241933 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/fun/1926_London.html Fabulous COLOUR film of 1926 London from the BFI... /fun 2013-05-200724 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/the_long_swath.html Great post from the NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day - this is 9000km swatch running from Russia all the way down through Africa offering stunning images along the route... /remote_sensing 2013-05-160730 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/notsoeasy_wifi.html I was in my local Asda recently and saw the stand below - I don't think "Follow these simple steps... /computing 2013-05-091028 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/fun/word_for_the_day_Pareidolia.html I came across the word Pareidolia at 500px yesterday which I didn't know, so looked it up on Wikipedia... /fun 2013-05-071322 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/fun/confirmed_lack_of_school_planning.html Well this week saw Central Bedfordshire Council organise an open meeting to "discuss changes to schools and academies in Dunstable and Houghton Regis" (something I've blogged about before) I think they got the feeling it was going to be popular early on and changed venues to a 200-seater hall, but the 400 who turned up, in the long queue snaking around All Saints Academy, perhaps took them by surprise... /fun 2013-05-030950 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/irons_LDCM.html This passed me by for some reason last year, but a great summary on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission is available over at Remote Sensing of Environment... /remote_sensing 2013-04-270956 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/publications/untitled1.html Just wanted to flag to people the Editor's Choice over at the Journal of Maps... /publications 2013-04-270936 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/antarctic_archive_data.html Jonathon Amos provides a nice overview of a team that put together a mosaic of archive data of Antarctica (published in The Cryosphere which is open access) from the 3-week long Nimbus-1 satellite from 1964... /remote_sensing 2013-04-261147 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/sony_rx100.html I've gotten far more in to my digital photography recently - see gallery - and my DSLR (Nikon fanboy... /computing 2013-04-251526 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/the_winner.html submarine volcano eruption... /remote_sensing 2013-04-172050 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/first_sat_image.html Well almost... /remote_sensing 2013-04-171333 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/LDCM_calibration.html Nice article over at EO IofD as NASA/USGS prepare to ready LDCM for full operation status... /remote_sensing 2013-04-160719 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/the_ffinal.html Cast your vote /remote_sensing 2013-04-050950 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/OS_Terrain_50.html OS announced this weekend the availability of OS Terrain 50 (T50), a maintained 50m DEM of the UK... /GIS 2013-04-031203 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/google_translate.html Google Translate is an excellent service and so useful for many translation tasks... /computing 2013-03-281207 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/teaching/tablets_in_learning.html I'm actively involved in learning technologies both as my role as a lecturer (e... /teaching 2013-03-271641 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/round4.html VOTE! /remote_sensing 2013-03-262240 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/glaciology/EPoD_redux.html Just can't get enough of a good thing... /glaciology 2013-03-250752 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/geoservices.html For want of a better name (new cartography, neogeography, geoservices or maybe geomatics... /GIS 2013-03-221335 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/LDCM_first_images.html Yes the LDCM first images are here - take a peek over at NASA /remote_sensing 2013-03-212129 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/saturn_engines.html A pair of giant Saturn 5 rocket engines, used to launch the original US lunar missions from the 1960s have been recovered by a team sponsored by Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos... /remote_sensing 2013-03-211221 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/fun/cbc_changes.html Watch... /fun 2013-03-201627 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/earth_madness_3.html This slipped under my radar, but round 3 of Earth Madness closes on Friday, so get your vote in before the deadline /remote_sensing 2013-03-201532 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/QGIS_primer.html OpenShift have a good post of using QGIS for loading spatial data and then does some spatial processing using Python and GDAL for import... /GIS 2013-03-191039 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/goodbye_google.html Google's announcement that they are killing off Google Reader seems to have been met with dismay, including a petition to the federal government in the US (and the ubiqutous Hitler meme below)... /computing 2013-03-161128 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/proprietary_silos.html ... /GIS 2013-03-131604 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/fun/burren_time_lapse.html A simply stunning set of time lapse photos taken with a Canon M5D Mk2/3 using a DIY rig to move the camera with a rising/falling rail... /fun 2013-03-131327 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/delete_blank_cells_in_excel.html I was doing some straight forward data management in Excel today and had gone through a long list of items and deleted a number of them... /computing 2013-03-131057 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/get_voting2.html ... /remote_sensing 2013-03-120727 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/UAV_legal.html UAVs are starting to the hit the big time with everything geospatial and are driving a hardware, data and software revolution along the way (more in later posts, but think open-source designs, open source software, massive datasets)... /remote_sensing 2013-03-052208 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/get_voting.html ... /remote_sensing 2013-03-050727 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/iserv.html ... /remote_sensing 2013-03-031734 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/os_past_present.html Nice pair of contrasting videos about OS - the first a modern promo video from the OS itself which is very glossy but actually tells you very little about the organisation and the second from Pathe news in the 1950s which is cringingly dated, such as "It used to take two men a whole year to do the map making mathematics that these adding machines and electronic computers can do in an afternoon with a girl to help... /GIS 2013-03-010822 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/earth_madness_2013.html From NASAs Earth Observatory: "Thirty-two will vie for the title, but only one can be the winner... /remote_sensing 2013-03-010801 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/GIS/software_agnostic.html Nice post from James Fee on software agnosticism... /GIS 2013-02-251807 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/tristan.html Great astronaut photo of Tristan da Cunha... /remote_sensing 2013-02-180739 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/root_app_delete.html Sick and tired of the crap and bloatware that invades the version of Android on your phone but can't remove they because they are built in to the ROM... /computing 2013-02-171953 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/computing/get_some_oomf.html Have you ever been watching a TED talk and wondered how they got that cool dynamic chart... /computing 2013-02-150835 http://www.journalofmaps.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/remote_sensing/landsat_eoiotd.html Continuing coverage... /remote_sensing 2013-02-121209