Mystery Map VI Revealed
Colton Harris-Moore caught the attention of the press internationally and sensationally when he escaped from a halfway house in Washington and made a trail of burglaries and thefts including cars, boats, and planes. He got his infamous nickname by leaving behind foot prints at some of his stops. His life as a fugitive began on...
Mystery Map VI
Interesting. This is a map of the United States, but it is overlayed with peculiar symbols. They appear to create a path. Click here to view the full size map. Around these islands, there is a strange concentration of similar marks. The symbols are your only clues. What is this a map of? Submit your...
Mystery Map V Revealed
Please click the map to see an enlarged version of it. Wow! Congrats to everyone who correctly guessed that our map displayed the lights on campus. Apparently we made this one too easy.
GIS/World Town Planning Day
GIS Day is November 17th this year. World Town Planning Day is on November 8th. Both are being celebrated in one event on the 8th of November at UAlbany thanks to UAlbany’s Geography and Planning Department. There will be presentations by students and professionals. The keynote speaker will be Galina Tachieva, author of Sprawl Repair...
New York Election Results from the New York Times
The New York Times goes into extensive details on the New York elections here, detailing everything from the Special Senate Election to the Major Ballot Measures. At the top right of the page is an interactive map displaying the margin of victory by county. Here’s a larger map of the US. Hovering over various counties...
Mystery Map IV Revealed
Click the image to view it enlarged. Skidmore College is offering a class this semester titled Sustainable Mobility Solutions. The class has been collaboratively researching how students and faculty move around on and off campus as well as identifying the mobility problems on campus. The aim is to provide plans and projects to improve Skidmore...
Mystery Map IV
Here’s our next mystery map, located at Skidmore College. Observe the red and green dots. What is this a map of? There also appears to be something else unusual about this map… Does anyone from Skidmore notice something strange?
Mystery Map III Revealed
The previous mystery map documented red eft sightings
Last Week’s Mystery Map Revealed
The first image from last week’s mystery map is by Jeremy Wood whose website can be found here. All of the lines on this map were drawn by foot with 238 miles of GPS tracks. Notice the text and the compass in this map. Here’s a link to Traverse Me which goes into greater detail...
Mystery Map
How was this map made? The lines seem so unsteady… Here’s a hint: What do those lines represent? What do these two maps have in common? Solution (and source) in a week. Comments may contain spoilers. Here is a link to the mystery map revealed.
Mystery Map Revealed
The temperature of soil in developed areas is generally higher than undeveloped land at between 4-5pm on a sunny day. This can be seen on Skidmore campus where buildings and parking lots cause local temperatures to be elevated. The difference between temperatures is remarkable; soil in the North Woods is in some cases 8 degrees...
Mystery Map
Interesting… The map is of the Skidmore College campus, but what could the colors mean? Leave your guess in the comments. Here is a link to the mystery map revealed.
