My (small) company provides services in people's homes. We'd like to use electronic maps to plan technician routes and better understand where our clients are geographically. What (Mac-compatible) software or web service might help with this?
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posted by Clandestine Outlawry
on Apr 16, 2013 -
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Is there some measure or standard way of quantifying how hilly or a flat a city is, or some other area is? Can you say San Francisco is 4.9 hillybits while Houston is only 0 hillybits?
posted by sien
on Mar 19, 2013 -
18 answers
What is the street in Michigan with the longest name? Or, how would you find this out?
Assume I'm too cheap to spend any money on a commercial map database or the like.
posted by kc8nod
on Feb 15, 2013 -
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My friends are all prepping for careers, and I'm wondering how I'll balance mine with the many things I want to do that are (probably) mutually exclusive. Looking for insight.
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posted by Urban Winter
on Jan 27, 2013 -
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I've got Home Designer Architectural 2014 and a desire to buil a house on a steep hillside. I need topographic data for this.
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posted by cmoj
on Jan 18, 2013 -
12 answers
I am interested in critical theoretical and marxist spatial theory, please recommend me some books that provide a good overview or introduction to this area!
Thanks!
posted by FuckingAwesome
on Jan 17, 2013 -
6 answers
What are some good sources - blogs or books - for learning what everyday life is like in different parts of the world?
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posted by kristi
on Jan 15, 2013 -
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In what medium to large city (or any place with a medical hub) could I buy the cheapest 1br or studio condo? Snowflake details inside.
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posted by sweltering
on Aug 3, 2012 -
15 answers
Where is the drainage divide of San Francisco, separating areas of the city that drain to San Francisco Bay from those that drain directly to the Pacific Ocean?
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posted by madcaptenor
on Aug 1, 2012 -
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I need a little inspiration for a project: I'm looking for unorthodox, interesting and engaging global political maps. All types of projections welcome, just looking for interesting ways of representing country boundaries in the context of a global map.
posted by undercoverhuwaaah
on Jul 24, 2012 -
6 answers
What is the percentage cover of earth's surface, made up by marine, terrestrial, estuarine, and freshwater ecosystems?
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posted by WhaleRider
on May 4, 2012 -
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Calling geographers: has anyone applied the idea of topological prominence to population density?
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posted by miyabo
on Apr 27, 2012 -
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Calling all SOONERS: I'm looking for the name of a University of Oklahoma professor, a woman, who taught GEOG 3253 in the Spring of 1985. My memory is that the class was called "Geography of Natural Resources", though my 2012 copy of my transcript says it was "Environmental Conservation". Story inside...
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posted by takenRoad
on Mar 23, 2012 -
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To what extent do cultural values affect foreign policy making between U.S. and China?
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posted by espada0
on Feb 14, 2012 -
11 answers
Can you tell me about this large reservoir just east of Mexico City, apparently called Lago Nabor Carrillo?
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posted by brightghost
on Jan 6, 2012 -
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Is there any software (online or Mac) that will help me to make clean, simple custom maps for a classroom? Ideally, I'd start with a simple, blank outline map, then be able to add features one at a time. (For example, perhaps I'd select "Ohio River" from a dropdown menu, and then it would appear on the map.)
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posted by SpiralT
on Nov 20, 2011 -
10 answers
Jazz at Lincoln Center is not actually at Lincoln Center. Are there other institutions with similar names?
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posted by Jahaza
on Nov 8, 2011 -
24 answers
Where can I get GIS data (Esri Shapefiles, GeoJSON, etc.) for no-longer-extant countries and kingdoms? I am specifically looking for data on the old Austro-Hungarian Empire and its former provinces and regions, particularly Galicia and/or Bukovina/Bukowina.
posted by Asparagirl
on Oct 3, 2011 -
8 answers
I want to learn geography. Not looking for an expansive knowledge of the subject -- just basically knowing the location of all the world's countries and perhaps their capitals.
This site looks very useful but looking for any additional input mefites might have. Any suggestions?
posted by gilast
on Jun 16, 2011 -
22 answers
What country lies exactly in-between Sri Lanka and Mali? I'm trying to find out a country in the middle in terms of pure miles and also in terms of flight time.
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posted by leecohen
on May 29, 2011 -
16 answers
Is there an online map that features a time axis? For example, a slider than controls year, and as the year changes, political boundaries and country names update to the appropriate values.
posted by steinwald
on May 21, 2011 -
4 answers
A few years ago I landed on this idea of what I think may really be the perfect fun-and-interesting job for me: a textbook editor. But even more so with social studies content. How do I do it?
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posted by AnOrigamiLife
on May 12, 2011 -
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I'd like to read a book about each country's history, ideally one offering as comprehensive of a timeline as possible. My goal is to get a brief overview of the history of a region rather than a specific focus on any singularly important event.
I'm looking for specific suggestions for any and all countries. Since that is a fairly wide net to cast, I'd settle for the best choices on the countries with the longest and most interesting histories and/or specifically interesting books.
I have a Kindle, so bonus points for books available in that format.
posted by highfidelity
on Apr 26, 2011 -
20 answers
You know how two rivers converge into one, and there's the little peninsula-like...thing that exists at the point of convergence? What do you call that?
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posted by mdonley
on Apr 5, 2011 -
21 answers
Help me compile every obsessive geographical databasing (something like this) website around.
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posted by setanor
on Mar 8, 2011 -
1 answer
Looking for a chronologically sequenced, preferably animated, geographical map of human evolution
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posted by heylight
on Mar 3, 2011 -
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I'd like to query geographical and population-based data. "$city <> 200,000" and so on and so forth.
What is this called and where can I find data like this? Willing to spend some money if necessary.
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posted by unixrat
on Jan 19, 2011 -
8 answers
What options do my boyfriend and I have to live life under our personal constraints of work and geography?
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posted by namesarehard
on Dec 12, 2010 -
36 answers
I'm community manager for a site that's kind of like metafilter (community blog) but for developmental biologists only. I need to present some site stats soon, and I think I have this really cool analysis of how the top 10 visiting countries are all countries with existing developmental biology societies (which is rare, with only 11 societies worldwide) but, being a properly trained scientist, I need controls...
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posted by easternblot
on Aug 24, 2010 -
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Should I go for a Masters in Geography / GIS? What will the future hold career-wise?
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posted by cavs33
on Aug 3, 2010 -
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Is there a word or phrase for this ethnocentric phenomenon of geography and social interaction?
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posted by eggman
on Jul 9, 2010 -
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Shot-in-the-dark-filter: On a recent flight going from L.A. to Denver, I noticed a very unusual landform, but I can't find it anywhere on google earth. Specifics within.
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posted by bjork24
on Jun 19, 2010 -
17 answers
Through the millennia of the history of our species, has every square meter of the planet, at one time or another, been trod upon by the human foot?
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posted by Gordion Knott
on Jun 15, 2010 -
24 answers
Broadly speaking (internationally) is Hawaii synonymous with the United States of America?
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posted by unmake
on Jun 1, 2010 -
32 answers
Am I over-thinking this, or will attending grad school at a CSU (California State University) hinder further career goals? Help me eliminate one more thing from my grad-application-frazzled mind!
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posted by anonymous
on Mar 31, 2010 -
8 answers
Does the Osage River contribute the largest volume of water of all the tributaries of the Missouri River?
posted by clockworkjoe
on Mar 29, 2010 -
5 answers
My grandparents were part of a group taken to Austria as slave laborers via the Strasshof concentration camp. The last surviving member of the group remembers their destination as being "Landerthal near Blaustaden, Austria". Does anyone know where this is?
posted by Joe in Australia
on Mar 15, 2010 -
11 answers
I am pursuing a career in GIS and I need to refresh my skills and learn new ones. Which tutorials, classes, websites, industry magazines, conferences, etc. would you recommend?
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posted by desjardins
on Mar 4, 2010 -
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What journals should I make a habit of reading regularly to stay current in my field and research interests? I am mostly interested in GIS, Renewable Energy and Sustainability.
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posted by occidental
on Feb 21, 2010 -
4 answers
I need to find the geographic center coordinates for each country worldwide. I can find county level data all over the place, but not country level. Not interested in postcode centroids, which seem to clutter up the results on searches significantly.
posted by Nothing
on Feb 16, 2010 -
12 answers
