Wind Regions .kmz, Celtics win Championship, Dying Maps, Google Maps GIS?, and moe. at Gov's Island

I added a downloadable .kmz file of NYS Recommended Wind Farm Development Areas from my graduate research (or see top of right side of page). It's based on my research using NEPA, wind speeds, and transmission line accessibility (10 miles or less) as a pre-screening tool for identifying areas as suitable for wind farm development.

The Celtics tore up the Lakers in the NBA Finals.

Another article on the dying paper map referred by The Map Room.

Off the Map continues the discussion of if Google Maps is GIS?

I got some free tickets to the moe. show at Governor's Island this past Sunday. It was great to take the ferry and visit the island for the first time. I hadn't seen moe. in a few years and didn't recognize all the songs but the venue and vibe was great. It felt like a college campus and there were so many trees that the light show projected onto the tree canopy. There were only about 1100 people there (likely due to late Sunday show and $40 ticket prices). There's a Governor's Island blog here. And here's what they had to say:

The Highline Ballroom brought Moe and a lot of happy jam-band fans to Governors Island this weekend.

It was the first of three evening concerts in the Highline Ballroom’s Governors Island Concert Series. Darkstar Orchestra is coming out on Friday, July 11 and the Saw Doctors are scheduled to pay a visit on Saturday, August 23. Because these concerts start and/or end after the Island’s free public ferry stops running, the ticket price includes the cost of transportation to the Island. Visit http://www.govislandconcerts.com for tickets and info.

Sunday is believed to have been the first time Governors Island had been allowed to stay up late (11pm!) on a school night since the Coast Guard’s going away party in 1996.

Here's the bootleg of the show for download from Internet Archive.


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