Reference: Media Information: NPR Labs New Mapping Tool
This interactive reference resource launched a little over a month ago and is free to access on the NPR Labs site. Here’s Some Useful Background: NPR Labs has launched a new interactive web-based...
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New Report from Pew Internet Looks at the Use of Location-Based Services
Title: Three-quarters of smartphone owners use location-based services Author: Kathryn Zickuhr Direct to Complete Report ||| PDF Version From the Overview: A new report finds that 74% of smartphone...
View ArticleScience Reference: New ‘Map of Life’ Project Aims to Show Distribution of all...
First Demonstration Release Now Online From the University of Colorado/Yale University: A research team involving Yale University and the University of Colorado Boulder has developed a first public...
View ArticleReference: New USGS Topographic Maps for California, Louisiana, and...
Maps are free to download online. Links below. From the USGS: In response to the need for up to date map coverage of the United States, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed a national map...
View ArticleNew Reference Resource: State-Level Maps and Graphs on Voting From U.S. Census
From the U.S. Census Web Site: The Census Bureau today released a menu-driven, interactive Web page permitting users to access for any state a series of graphs showing percentages of adults who voted...
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Updated: World Map of Social Networks (June 2012)
A new update from Vincenzo Cosenza. “Showing the most popular social networking sites by country, according to Alexa & Google Trends for Websites traffic data*.” Read the complete announcement,...
View ArticleWork on NYPL Historical GIS Project Proceeding Faster than Planned, More than...
Kudos and Congrats to the NYPL GIS project team! From a NYPL Blog Post by Matt Knutzen: In 2010, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map...
View ArticleU.S. Census Releases New Version of OntheMap for Emergency Management...
From a U.S. Census E-Mail: New features in the Census Bureau’s OnTheMap application improve access to workforce and demographic statistics for emergency preparedness, response and recovery activities....
View Article165TB of New Imagery Added to Bing Maps
From the Bing Community Blog: Today we’re thrilled to announce the publication of our largest satellite release to date. In fact, this release is larger than all of our past Aerial releases combined!...
View ArticleReference: Historical Aerial Photos of Connecticut’s Coastline Now Available...
New from the University of Connecticut Libraries: In August 2011, Tropical Storm Irene took a hard swipe at Connecticut’s 350 miles of coastline, eroding dunes and redistributing sand to the extent...
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