Gothos

I’m flying out to Seattle tonight, and will eventually be driving back to New York, after side trips to Vancouver BC, Olympia, and San Fran. When I moved to Seattle for grad school back in 2005, I used a Rand McNally road atlas to plot time and distances between stops. This time around I used Google Maps, which made it much easier to fiddle around with spacing the stops out. You can check out my plan (for Seattle to New York via San Fran) here. Place names and Long / Lat coordinates get passed through the url, making it easy to hack together your own map.

I’m still taking that road atlas with me though!

It’s been awhile since my last post - I’ve been locked away in my apartment on research leave for the past two weeks. I’m working on a database-backed web directory for finding GIS data, as I’m tired of dealing with bookmarks, html lists, and protracted web searches for keeping track of datasets. The goal is to keep it simple and standards-based. The basic architecture is in place; I’m just struggling to learn and apply PHP. Fingers crossed, I may have a prototype ready by the end of my next round of leave this summer.

I’m also still reading Georeferencing by Linda Hill, which extensively covers gazetteers and and metadata standards.  It’s definetly worth checking out, from a library near you.