Category Archives: Brains

First up in this month’s make smarter comes via SlashGeo and is maptogether’s Illustrated Guide to Nonprofit GIS and Online Mapping. This well written and illustrated document covers the basics of GIS, some examples of nonprofits doing work with GIS, … Continue reading →

Tim Berners-Lee (yes, that Tim Berners-Lee) gave a great TED Talk called The Year Open Data Went Worldwide. And it’s all about maps. OpenStreetMap gets a special mention.

There are slim pickings in the make smarter department this past month, but there were a few things that jumped out at me. First, via Vector One, Cynthia Dietz, Map Librarian at the University of Stony Brook NY, wronte an … Continue reading →

TED Talks has a good presentation by Bill Davenhall titled Your health depends on where you live. It’s an interesting talk on the new science of geomedicine (so new I couldn’t find geomedicine on Wikipedia). This must be why Dr. House … Continue reading →

TED Talks has a good presentation by Lalitesh Katragadda titled Making Maps to Fight Disaster, Build Economies. The focus is on Google Map Maker, and how during a 2008 cyclone event in Myanmar 40 volunteers from Google digitized 120,000km of … Continue reading →