Shopping's Black Friday Twitter Brand Analysis

Black Friday Twitter Brand Analysis - from OFF THE MAP - Sean Gorman

Border Dispute: Nicaragua and Costa Rica

The Wall Street Journal is reporting on a mapped border dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica

http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2010/11/05/google-maps-caught-in-border-dispute/

Bing Maps drops 3D

Bing Maps is dropping their 3D services in favor of their oblique imagery services. Check it out here:

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2010/11/bing_maps_is_dropping_their_3d_vers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+GoogleEarthBlog+(Google+Earth+Blog)

Gridded Population of the World

Here at Columbia, SEDAC (http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/) part of CIESIN (http://ciesin.columbia.edu/) created a gridded population of the world dataset (http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/). It is great for finding population for places around the world that you might not easily find data for.