GIST Space

Friday, 4 April 2014

Play Google Cube

Looking for a cute, GIS related time waster? Look no further...

Google Cube - A game about google maps. Now you get to play with it: http://www.playmapscube.com/

It has the nice added bonus of explaining some of the Google Maps extras like cycle restrictions.

Thursday, 3 April 2014

Great map theme (comes in a close second to the watercolour theme by Stamen) displaying the earth using post apocalyptic textures and reimagining markers. More detail on the map available at: http://www.wired.com/2014/02/map-box-space-theme/#more-577301

Wednesday, 2 April 2014

The True Size of Africa

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/cartography?fsrc=scn%2Ftw_ec%2Fthe_true_true_size_of_africa

This might come in very useful in explaining how Greenland is not the same size as Africa...

Monday, 31 March 2014

More transport visualizations

Iain Kirkpatrick produced a Wellington Public Transport geovisualization inspired by Richard Law's previous viz. The geoviz uses GitHub. Iain is also a PGDipGIS graduate.

Sunday, 30 March 2014

New Zealand ESRI User Group Regional Meetings

Its the ESRI user group regional meeting season - if you're interested in attending any one of the local user group meetings - info is available here: http://www.gisuser.org.nz/events-amp-conferences/regional-meetings-amp-events/regional-meetings

Palmerston North is on this week (3 April) - I'll be making a guest appearance talking about the Geospatial Skills Shortage survey I ran in New Zealand a little while ago. Wellington is up on the 11th of April and I'll be presenting on SET (a spatial econometric transport model developed with the ISCR).