Maps
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Tracking smoke
Last summer, like most people, I watched the horrible news of the forest fires from Alberta and how they impacted the local population. Since we have friends and relatives who live there, we had more than a passing interest. For the most part, we were going through the summer unaffected around here. But, that didn’t… Continue reading
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A who’s who
I thought this was one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. Using OpenStreetMap, you can take a computer tour of anywhere in the world and find the most notable person from that community. Well, I didn’t make my community. Did you? I did zero in on downtown Windsor and Detroit. So,… Continue reading
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A better earth?
I’m a real lover of mapping applications. Sure, there are street level applications but the visualizations from satellites add a new level to things. Recently, I ran across this article. This ‘digital twin’ of the planet could rival Google Earth — here’s how you can try it Before I kicked the tires, I asked Bing Chat… Continue reading
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This Week in Ontario Edublogs
This past Wednesday, Stephen and I finished off our summer where we’d invited a number of Ontario bloggers to join us on the show. The last guest was Aviva Dunsiger who joined us from school and shared her environment with the world with this Twitter picture from her studio, er closet, at school away from… Continue reading
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Digital Native-Land
This blog post is an update and re-blog from 2018 with some new insights. We were in the Leamington area the other day and noticed the Caldwell Nation had opened a huge gas station and there’s the promise of an updated marina on the road to Point Pelee. My curiosity got me as to just… Continue reading
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