Weary Mappers

Great Weary Mappers Canoe trip this week. If you missed it, start planning for next year! Thanks to Jason for organizing. And thanks to Bill for bringing the awesome venison goulash.

In a note on facebook, Joseph Skulan, estimates the size of the crowd at the capital last Saturday to be around 180,000. Mappers, with access to local data, what do you think?

 Here's an interesting mapping website that overlays the oil spill over your home town.

Interesting blog post about a "Map of Every McDonalds in the Country".  See it for your self: Map.

No need to meditate on it.  This national Verizon DROID ad features local Madison natural health care business, Human Nature LLC.  Complete with it's Atwood address and location on a map.  It's nice to see the ad world get beyond the borders of NY City.

http://www.keiththompsonart.com/pages/grandmap.html

 Repost: Punkish via SIAC

Everyman Offers New Directions in Online Maps - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/technology/internet/17maps.html?hp

Repost: punkish via SIAC

 

Let' s thank the good ol' Earth for continuing to keep us mappers in business.  A new sea will mean all kinds of maps and geography text will need to be updated, not to mention numerous increasingly inaccurate folk references to the number of salt water bodies that can be sailed...

 http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/rift-ethiopian-desert-confirmed-beginning-new-sea.php

 

The city of Atalanta will be target for a "mapathon" by Open Street Map.  They claim it will make Atlanta the worlds most digitally mapped city.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8305924.stm

My neighbor mentioned this site on facebook:  Atlas Obscura.  It has an interesting collection of exotica places.