eric mauviere (he built that little flash map widget used to demo our geoLocator CFC), who i think has produced probably the best flash GIS i've ever seen, has updated his geoClip application. if you want to see how a GIS should be built with flash, check out his application.

the sweet is indeed made sweeter.

there was an interesting post on the geowanking mailing list today concerning the cybergeography of anti-social internet use: spam, virus, etc. besides graphs of statistics, there's some interesting maps of sources.

it seems the rise in cheap broadband here in thailand might be responsible for the "hotspot" of spam activity around the big mango.

more info here.

wow a topic that combines my two favorite things, languages and maps. the Modern Language Association has produced an arcIMS driven site that allows interactive mapping of language down to the county/zip code level (from census data). you can compare one language against another, map language use by political boundary (GIS-speak for state, county, zip code), etc. oh its so cool, its making me giddy ;-) it's not "public" until wednesday and it looks like its getting hammered right now. in any case, if you live in the US, it's certainly worth a peek.

off the CNN website.

interesting story making the rounds today. it seems the UK's best selling hiking magazine printed a trail guide that would lead hikers off a cliff. given the weather conditions and terrain there, yup walking off that mountain seems easy enough and yup, might hurt a bit.

that kind of mistake is sort of understandable--spatial data is quite complex, i'd say there's no data as complicated. the magazine's editor says they print 200 a year (as if that was a lot) and this was their first mistake (i bet it wasn't). in comparison NIMA (now the NGA) produces 1000's of maps. makes you wonder.

looking at it from the opposite (geographic data collecting) end, i was recently re-reading some of the journals of the first systematic geographic and geologic surveys of Thailand, carried out 50-100 years ago, literally from the backs of elephants. people died collecting that spatial information. drowning. snake bites. tigers. falls. tough way to make a living. so next time you pick up a map, you might give some thought to what it took to produce it.