I had the good fortune of addressing the Minnesota GIS / LIS Consortium today at their 2007 conference, pontificating on matters I termed ‘GIS 2.0? Neogeography and the Social Mapping Movement.’
As promised to those of you in attendance, and for those of you who weren’t in attendance but would like to see the presentation materials anyway, here’s the link.
Enjoy!
… is launched! I’ve been working with the fine folks at Lonely Planet on the application for a while, and it’s great to see our little baby toddle out the door. If you’re wanting to check it out (and you should be!), here’s the link. Better yet, add it to your Facebook account.
We’ve built lots of ways for you to explore the world of travel, all based on a Google map, including travel videos, destination info, flight prices / booking, hotel / hostel reservations, places to eat, drink, and see, and, finally, new to the facebook app, trips. Click on the trips tab, or on ‘Create a new trip’, and you can create your dream trip, report on a trip you’ve already done, or document a trip in progress. Your trip will be visible to anyone exploring Lonely Planet’s maps on Facebook and elsewhere, and will be especially highlighted for all your Facebook friends. As an added bonus, you can query where all your travel buddies are today, have been, or want to go.
We’ve included all the regular Facebook application goodies, including a box for your profile (where am I now? Where have I been?), updates to news feeds, and a little link either under your profile photo or on the left-hand applications list.
Anyway, that’s enough of my wordy descriptions - go add the application for yourself!
Those of you who know me well will, of course, know that I was recently married (September 8th) to a wonderful woman by the name of Meaghan. Since I’m not generally well-known, nor am I in the habit of posting many personal details / events, those of you who simply wander by this humble blog will have had no idea. Not that it really matters, then, but, in that case, please allow this post to be the public announcement.
Now, all announcements complete, let me proceed to the real reason for this post: photos! Meaghan and I spent our honeymoon in Cuba - a week eating, drinking, swimming, and generally getting fat, bored, and pampered in an all-inclusive resort, and a week driving the remote eastern Cuba countryside. Sadly, though we tried valiantly, we were not able to sneak a peak of the US Navy’s Guantanamo Bay naval base. However, I have posted a series of photos to give you a sense of those places we did see. You can find them via the Photos link above, or access the same set on Flickr. Since I’ve got my fingers in way too many projects at once, you may, if you like, find similar sets of photos on Facebook and Zyozy.
In what I suppose has become my tradition for posts of this sort, I hereby offer my favourite, a nighttime shot of Santiago de Cuba, taken from the roof of Graham Greene’s former hangout, the Hotel Casa Granda. Enjoy!
