Back in July, we told you about the Geospatial Revolution project that Penn State Public Broadcasting was putting together. They’ve now released the first episode and it’s quite awesome.

The first episode is about 14 minutes long, and covers a variety of topics. Most of it is a technology overview (“How We Get There”, “How We Got Here”, “Why We Need It”, etc), but also includes an excellent segment about Ushahidi and the great work that they are doing.

Beyond that, they have lots of great snippets of info from people in the industry, including Mark Brender and Matt O’Connell from Geoeye and Michael Jones from Google.

Check it out for yourself on the Geospatial Revolution site, or just watch the full episode below:

Robbery Maps

Robberymaps is a Spanish language crowd-sourced Google Map showing the locations of robberies around the world.

The site was launched in Barcelona and most of the user submitted reports of robberies are still submitted from the city. At the moment then the map is most useful for people who live in Barcelona or are planning to visit. The map is full of useful user submitted information about areas of the city that you should be particularly careful.

Barcelona is fairly well known for its gangs of pickpockets. This map could therefore be very useful if you want to find out the latest areas that the gangs have been seen operating in.

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The Ocean Mapping Group

The Ocean Mapping Group of the University of New Brunswick has created a bathymetry map for the Arctic. The map overlays a number of bathymetry layers of the region over the Google Maps base map tiles.

The transparency of the bathymetry layers can be adjusted using a slider control or can be turned on or off via a check box under the ‘satellite’ button. It is possible to download the data by clicking on any of the layers. If you click on a bathymetry layer an information window opens with a link to download the data.

Via: Le Technology du LAC

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