I'm trying to map protests in the United States, but I'm grappling with data sources (and will eventually tangle with data management). Any ideas? [more inside]
posted by McBearclaw on Jun 11, 2009 - 5 answers

I'm working on some code for quickly pulling together shapefile data and other data (statistics, etc) and spitting out maps. That means JOINs. Thanks to the 1990-quality standards of GIS, attribute tables are in dbf files. How does one deal with these blasts from the past? [more inside]
posted by tmcw on Apr 28, 2009 - 5 answers

Help ME win a bet with MY girlfriend. When recalling events, I often mention what direction I was facing when something happened or I said something. [more inside]
posted by notsnot on Jun 15, 2006 - 39 answers

I need a data file describing which US counties border which other US counties. Is it somewhere on the internet? [more inside]
posted by thrako on Jun 13, 2006 - 1 answer

Looking for cool, interesting, representations of spatial data. [more inside]
posted by signal on Sep 17, 2005 - 7 answers

Does anyone know of exercises/games (or other methods) to improve spatial reasoning? [more inside] [more inside]
posted by sid on Feb 21, 2004 - 15 answers