http://highearthorbit.com/geography-week-and-gis-day-at-uva/ Transmitting ideas, observations, and images from 42,000 km. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:15:16 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-rare hourly 1 http://highearthorbit.com/geography-week-and-gis-day-at-uva/comment-page-1/#comment-368451 Steve Gillman Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:31:56 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/geography-week-and-gis-day-at-uva/#comment-368451 Fascinating ideas. I hope you can eventually get one of your presentations online for those of us who do not live nearby. A speech at TED.com (and the resulting video) would be great. Fascinating ideas. I hope you can eventually get one of your presentations online for those of us who do not live nearby. A speech at TED.com (and the resulting video) would be great.

]]> http://highearthorbit.com/geography-week-and-gis-day-at-uva/comment-page-1/#comment-368425 ADHD Doctors Connecticut Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:45:20 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/geography-week-and-gis-day-at-uva/#comment-368425 I go way back with a love of maps. I'm a sailor, a pilot and a "road warrior" in general. When I sailing or flying I always make sure to practice "old school" navigation at some point because electonics fail, but I'm pretty sure my eyesight and my brain will work (most days). This simple ritual has gotten me out of some tight spots that others, who may not have grown up with the "old fashioned" paper maps, parellel rules, etc., may have found challenging. Thanks for the reminder. I go way back with a love of maps. I’m a sailor, a pilot and a “road warrior” in general. When I sailing or flying I always make sure to practice “old school” navigation at some point because electonics fail, but I’m pretty sure my eyesight and my brain will work (most days). This simple ritual has gotten me out of some tight spots that others, who may not have grown up with the “old fashioned” paper maps, parellel rules, etc., may have found challenging. Thanks for the reminder.

]]> http://highearthorbit.com/geography-week-and-gis-day-at-uva/comment-page-1/#comment-368299 Peter Charles Dingle Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:37:09 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/geography-week-and-gis-day-at-uva/#comment-368299 I love maps. I am drawn to them. If whatever I might be reading reveals a map as I turn the page, I will stop. I will look at it and study it. If it is a place I know or have been to, even better. But what really is most compelling to me are old maps. I love looking at how the world was perceived and recorded in the past. The older the better. How strange North America looked on an old map made by a European cartographer a few centuries ago. So if you know of any symposiums or lectures/presentations on historical maps, pass it along. Good stuff, and keep in touch! I love maps. I am drawn to them. If whatever I might be reading reveals a map as I turn the page, I will stop. I will look at it and study it. If it is a place I know or have been to, even better. But what really is most compelling to me are old maps. I love looking at how the world was perceived and recorded in the past. The older the better. How strange North America looked on an old map made by a European cartographer a few centuries ago. So if you know of any symposiums or lectures/presentations on historical maps, pass it along. Good stuff, and keep in touch!

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