Category Archives: Data

Web Mapping featured on Rowan’s homepage

Posted on March 24, 2009 by John Reiser

Currently on Rowan’s homepage is an article on the Geography Department‘s work on bring GIS to the greater university community. The article focuses on our recent web mapping work; specifically the Land Use Change viewer and NJ State Atlas.  I’m … Continue reading →

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Geography of Luck – NJ Lottery winners mapped

Posted on March 18, 2009 by John Reiser

I recently requested from the NJ Lottery a list of all the big prize winners, from 1988 to 2008. The winner’s location information is reported by ZIP Code, so I now have a map of the winners plotted out across … Continue reading →

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Using Sketchup to visualize $1 trillion

Posted on March 11, 2009 by John Reiser

This page has a visualization of the sheer size $1 trillion dollars would occupy using $100 bills. The images are rendered using SketchUp, one of my favorite applications. I came across this link while browsing BoingBoing, and one of their … Continue reading →

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Ogle Earth on redaction of images from Google

Posted on February 23, 2009 by John Reiser

Today, Ogle Earth has posted an excellent article on images from Google Earth that have gone missing. The imagery is of an area in Pakistan. Apparently Dianne Feinstein commented that the US military has been using a base in Pakistan … Continue reading →

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Google’s historic aerials have shuffled dates.

Posted on February 3, 2009 by John Reiser

Before Google Earth 5 had come out, I had commented to a few people that the dates for the aerial photos (which used to be displayed in the bottom center of the screen) were way off for New Jersey. The … Continue reading →

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Latest Google Earth has historic aerial photography

Posted on February 3, 2009 by John Reiser

Digital Urban has a writeup of one of the newest, perhaps most exciting feature to be added to Google Earth. Historic aerial photography! For many places around the globe, you now have access to previous aerial photography, as far back … Continue reading →

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technology has come a long way

Posted on January 20, 2009 by John Reiser

“Back in my day, we had to wait years for grainy aerial photographs taken from a biplane.” CNN has satellite imagery of the crowd gathered on the Mall for today’s inauguration. The images are from GeoEye, who not only have … Continue reading →

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Beacons to be lit to mark anniversary of British departure

Posted on November 24, 2008 by John Reiser

From the Daily Record: On Tuesday, just as dusk settles, a dozen hilltops covering 108 miles from Beacon, N.Y., to Princeton will be illuminated with bright spotlights to mark the day 225 years ago when the last British troops boarded … Continue reading →

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GeoEye-1 sends back first imagery

Posted on October 9, 2008 by John Reiser

GeoEye-1, an Earth-imaging satellite that’s been in the news recently due to its agreement with Google to provide the company with half-meter imagery, has sent back its first pictures. The satellite will provide images for Google to use in its … Continue reading →

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New Jersey Public Schools GIS Data

Posted on October 8, 2008 by John Reiser

Point locations for public schools in New Jersey is now available in personal geodatabase form. The dataset, created by the Office of GIS with information from the Department of Education, is available for download through NJGIN.

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