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- Tuesday Tunes: Surname band names of the rock era
- Ten planning lessons from astronomical research sites
- Tuesday Tunes: Out-of-this-world rock band names
- Riding the rails of interstellar discovery at the Very Large Array
- Majestic “mesa” cities and towns around the globe
- Canada’s next supergroup – A Short Walk to Pluto
- Two migration tales of strength, hardship, and tenacity
- An out-of-this-world visit to the Very Large Array (VLA)
- Albuquerque is a national leader in water conservation
- The buzz about America’s “bee-friendly” cities
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Tag Archives: cartography
Can you guess the city, #20?
Below is a satellite image of City #20. Congratulations to Mousecat for being the first to correctly identify City #19. BTW – It is getting increasingly difficult to post these on Linkedin as they are being interpreted by some as … Continue reading
Posted in aerospace, cities, environment, fun, geography, land use, Maps, Outer Space, pictures, placemaking, planning, spatial design
Tagged cartography, cities, fun, games, geography, maps, satellite images
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Movie titles on the map
Below is a non-comprehensive list of fairly well-known movie titles that include place name/geographic references. For the sake of brevity and my own sanity, documentaries, shorts, foreign language titles, and/or physical geographic terms were not included. Please feel free to send … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, art, Asia, branding, China, cities, Communications, culture, entertainment, Europe, film, fun, geography, globalization, history, India, Maps, movies, North America, Oceania, placemaking, South America, tourism, Travel, UK, writing
Tagged Africa, Asia, cartography, cities, continents, counties, countries, Europe, films, fun, geography, maps atlas, movies, North America, Oceania, place names, South America, states, theaters, towns
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Mapping Atlanta’s train traffic
Got to admit that I had never seen this kind of map before stumbling across it recently. While common for streets and highways, I cannot recall an average daily train traffic map. It is a very useful and interesting map of Atlanta, Georgia … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, cities, commerce, Communications, economic development, geography, government, history, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Passenger rail, planning, rail, spatial design, States, Statistics, technology, transportation, Travel, urban planning, zoning
Tagged Atlanta, cartography, commerce, freight tonnage, frieght, GDOT, geography, Georgia, land use, logistics, mapping, maps, rail, railroads, shipping, train tonnage, transportation
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Geographic terms with the most diverse usage in American and Canadian populated place-names
The following lists present those geographic terms used for the widest variety of populated place names in the United States and Canada. the figures were determined using recent road atlases and google maps. The tallies for each term are not meant to be a … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, cities, Communications, culture, diversity, education, environment, fun, geography, Geology, government, history, land use, Language, nature, North America, placemaking, planning, Statistics, tourism, Travel
Tagged atlases, Canada, cartography, features, geography, geology, land forms, land use, language, maps, place names, placemaking, places, terrain, toponymy, UDA
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