There’s a new blog on the block: Geography 2.0: Virtual Globes, by Alan Glennon at the UCSB’s geography department.
The blog seems to be a companion to an upcoming session on virtual globes at the Association of American Geographers’ annual meeting in Chicago next March, but if this blog is going to be a place to post and discuss ruminations on this relatively new way of displaying spatial data, then it certainly looks very promising.
For example, a recent post has a listing of all the virtual globes that have been created to date. I for one would love to know what the particular innovations of each were.
A Few More Blogs
A few more mapping-related blogs to tell you about, with still more to come. Most mapping blogs approach it from the GIS pro’s perspective; First Printing’s perspective is also professional — but it’s from a company dealing in antique maps…