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Tag: GIS

Mapping Disasters

Posted on April 11, 2007April 20, 2007 by Mills

With a great deal of media fanfare, Google Earth and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have launched a collaboration that allows Google Earth users to see and interact with the unfolding genocide in Darfur. The Google Earth layer produced through this collaboration taps into the resources of the Holocaust Museum, giving the user access…

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Where the Present Lies Heavily on the Past (cont’d)

Posted on March 15, 2007May 17, 2007 by Mills

Yesterday I wrote about the Choeung Ek (Killing Fields) site of memory here in Cambodia. Today, I turn to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21 Prison) in downtown Phnom Penh. Tuol Sleng is in better shape than Choeung Ek, probably due to it’s location in the city rather than out in the countryside, and the…

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Mapping the World

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Mills

Last year I wrote about the Worldmapper website—a site that helps users visualize the relationships between different data sets and world geography. In the January/February 2007 issue of The Atlantic, P.J. O’Rourke describes one way that Worldmapper might be used to answer a question about the contemporary world—in this case, how one might use the…

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Visualizing Geography

Posted on September 25, 2006 by Mills

A friend just alerted me to the website Worldmapper, which I highly recommend. Their own description says: “Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.” But this simple sentence does not convey the interesting possibilities for visualizing historical information on a global scale….

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