Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan is already on GoogleEarth!

Where to Live to Avoid a Natural Disaster

With all of the extreme weather and natural disasters occuring, where are the safest and least safe places to live? Here's a great set of maps from the NY Times showing risk levels nationwide. It looks like the Pacific Northwest wins, but Albuquerque is not too bad.

FOSS4G is in Denver this year!

Join us in Denver this fall for the FOSS4G Workshop for Educators.  FOSS4G hasn't been in the U.S. since it was called Open Source Geospatial and was held in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2005.  So it's a great opportunity to learn about the latest in free and open source for geospatial software.  Our workshop will cover the semester long Introduction to Open Source GIS course developed for Central New Mexico Community College (CNM).  That course will run this summer starting on May 24th.  Come learn about QGIS, GRASS, GDAL/OGR, Mapserver and PostGIS!

The three countries that don't use the metric system

As a reminder, these are the three countries who don't use the incredibly sensible metric system: Liberia, Myanmar and of course, the United States of America.  Amazing. 

Where Are Americans Moving?

This interactive map shows human migration patterns across American counties.

Tsunami travel times for the Pacific today.