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world geography blog skip to main skip to sidebar pages home my pictures who reads wgb monday october 29 2012 standby about twenty years ago i learned about bumping on airlines or at least thought i did i remember hearing that all you had to do to get a free flight was ask to be bumped or placed on the next flight this was the airline s way of fixing overbooked flights to me it seemed like a big secret for the seasoned flyer and i was flying pretty much every year to florida which at the time seemed adequate for entry into the club even if that was how getting bumped worked my parents never seemed too keen on it that always confused me but after a recent travel experience to the netherlands i have a greater understanding for my parent s desire to stick to the schedule buddy passes my friend said to me 400 dollars and you can fly to amsterdam for a three day weekend sign me up while i already rely on google too much in hindsight this would have been a good time to review the too good to be true nature of a 400 dollar round trip transatlantic flight now i know and if you didn t before now you do it wasn t even the not being able to get on the plane i thought i had booked to fly from dtw to ams thing it was the fact that coming back i wasn t able to get on the flight i had originally booked coming back ams dtw or the next one for that matter specifically it was the fact that no matter what i did i was never going to be guaranteed a ticket while this makes for a minor inconvenience say coming back from st louis when trapped on the other side of the ocean only mostly joking about whether or not you ll need to start looking for work it makes for an unsettling time in the end it all worked out and thanks to a nice delta lady in amsterdam i was able to get back to detroit via boston only 7 or so hours later that originally planned so while i ve somewhat soured on the buddy passes for short term international travel i was able to enjoy a nice few days in the netherlands seeing amsterdam rotterdam and a few places in between here s a look at the town of barendrecht where i stayed for a night with a friend note the iphone 5 purple lens flare posted by ryan at 1 59 pm 137 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday august 13 2012 map of previous olympic host cities despite some disconcerting signs the london olympics were a great success we ve learned that it is much more difficult to plan an olympiad in a busy city than in the middle of nowhere we ve learned about the remarkable per capita numbers for places like the bahamas trinidad and tobago and jamaica and that there is no such thing as a sure thing at the olympics a fact which does not impress mckayla maroney i ve looked it up before but challenged myself to remember as many as olympic host cities as i could the results were not pretty so i put together a quick little reference map i knew it would be but the cities are awfully euroasialia north mericacentric sochi and rio both represent a significant departure from the traditional areas here s hoping for campaigns like baku 2020 azerbaijan and kenya 2024 sadly baku has already been dropped posted by ryan at 3 43 pm 52 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday july 24 2012 mapping 2012 un security council resolutions i ve always been hesitant to write or highlight things in books magazines or newspapers for some reason i feel like it will ruin it for the next time i read it i consciously do this knowing that the ability to go back through an article in foreign affairs or foreign policy and see the highlights would be a great time saver so recently i grabbed a few index cards similar to the dream notes the thought is i can write down information about new concepts or add to a card with general information on a place person policy or historical event the ability to quickly access information is something i ve grown accustomed to so much so that i get frustrated when information isn t a google away earlier i read a bbc article on south sudan s proposal to the north on oil royalties and fees in excess of 8 billion dollars noting that sudan is looking to charge 36 dollars per barrel in refining transit and tariffs i thought the major sudan oil pipelines might make for a creative map to put together now it seems that the geography of a pipeline that in most years is pumping billions of dollars of a commodity through it would be easily accessible not so through a series of what at the time seemed like related searches i found myself looking for a list of us economic sanctions on other countries while i was able to find an encyclopedic reference i wasn t able to get the elevator speech as i continued to poke around i came across a list of un security council resolutions by year just in case anyone happens to wonder where un security council resolutions in the first half of 2012 relate to i put together a map along with links to the resolutions themselves posted by ryan at 10 10 am 322 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels google maps map south sudan sudan un security council resolutions monday july 16 2012 google maps with some style i know i know google maps api v3 is all i ve been talking about but there really is no end to what one can do using it as a mapaholic learning more and more each week i can t help but want to share the things i discover there s no doubt the look of a regular google map is clean classic and easy to read and understand sometimes that classic look just doesn t cut it fortunately google offers a great tool to style their maps with any colors you want it takes a little bit of trial and error because the feature classes and names are not very intuitive but in just a few minutes you ll get the hang of it once you get the custom style you like you click a button and are given a javascript object you can use that in your code to customize any map you host here s what the code looks like easy peasy lemon squeezy the google geo developers blog posted a few great examples of custom map styles i would be remiss if i didn t share this gem with you posted by ryan at 4 28 pm 61 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday july 2 2012 fusion table dead end i had been planning on posting another fun map created using google fusion tables but with another week of experimenting under my belt i ve come across too many issues and will instead use this post to complain i like fusion tables because of the visualization options the map feature in particular it works very well with your own set of data provided you have a clean set of geographic features to work with however if you re scouring the web for data from something like the world bank or cia factbook chances are you ll end up with a set of data with no geography tied to it only a name the fusion tables tutorial video shows a perfect way to visualize this data by searching publicly shared tables and merging it with an existing set of country borders using the merge function you can link two tables together much like using a key field in access if you have a few minutes check out the video so let s say we have data on the number of cows per square mile by country if we were to merge it to an existing table of world countries that has geographic bounds we would not find the same success as the tutorial video above because not all of the country names would match the united republic of tanzania and tanzania will not match usa and united states will not match etc this makes sense but what doesn t is that you cannot edit the fields of a merged table the only way to fix this is to edit the names of the countries in your original file and then re merge with a shared table even this isn t a big deal by itself but you aren t able to save the shared files to your own fusion tables set this makes it so that you must re search for the table online this is all complicated by the fact that everything is stored online slowing everything down fusion tables is closely tied to google drive in fact there is no stand alone fusion tables page instead when you go to the fusion tables home page you are actually in google drive google s free cloud service but by far the biggest problem with fusion tables is that from within a table you can not get back to your google drive page or a page with a list of your fusion tables all of the other issues could be solved if there was simply a back to my tables button instead i quickly end up with 15 tabs open in my web browser and lose all organization here is a screen shot of how you will run in to a no way out dead end when you open a fusion table if you use fusion tables i m interested to hear your thoughts yea or nay posted by ryan at 3 34 pm 22 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday june 25 2012 2012 failed states index the failed states index is a great mashup of data and maps this year the data feels much more accessible the fund for peace website has been redesigned and you can actually download the data easily i had originally planned to write about the inordinate number of african states high on the list as well as some surprises like mali being so low for a country whose democracy seems to be tearing at the seams but a few days ago john campbell pointed out just about everything i wanted to point out and much more eloquently as such i encourage you to go read his brief comments i also downloaded the data and created a google fusion table you can click on a country to see how it stacks up in each of the 12 categories used in the index posted by ryan at 1 34 pm 37 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom can t find what you re looking for custom search the geography guy subscribe can you beat me the traveler iq challenge ranks 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