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Harold Fisk's map of Mississippi River flooding over time, made in 1944Here's a collection of articles I found on the net arranged by topics from the more general to the more technical. &#160;Articles in French are listed afterwards.HUMOUR- Big Brother is watching youhttp://gidivigo.com/maps/- What your favorite map projection says about youhttp://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/map_projections.pngRISE OF DATA SCIENCE- The Economist on the explosion of Data http://www.economist.com/node/15579717 http://www.economist.com/node/15557443?story_id=15557443- Barack Obama's looking for Data scientists with preferred skill in R languagehttp://rdatamining.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/obama-recruiting-analysts-and-r-is-one-preferred-skill/- Job trends for different keywords: "big data", "statistician", "data scientist", "R statistician", and R "data scientist". Maybe R is worth learning if you're looking for a job.http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/07/growth-in-data-related-jobs.html - About building a data science teamhttp://radar.oreilly.com/2011/09/building-data-science-teams.htmlhttp://flowingdata.com/2009/06/04/rise-of-the-data-scientist/ http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=2378INFORMATION GRAPHICS- When mapping meets arthttp://casualdata.com/senseofpatterns/http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665126/gorgeous-vintage-floodplain-maps-that-look-like-modern-art - More traditionnal maps of volcanoes' geology, but very prettyhttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/geological-maps-of-volcanoes/- IKEA heat maphttp://infosthetics.com/archives/2011/09/a_visual_analysis_of_how_people_shop_in_ikea.html- A realistic Manhattan map modelhttp://www.visualnews.com/2011/09/24/the-heaviest-map-ever-mini-manhattan-made-of-marble/I think this creation can be connected to this project that makes people whose heritage is threatened participate around 3D model[fr] http://www.slideshare.net/geoseminaire2011/notre-fort-notre-dignit-maquette-3d-et-revendication-territoriale?from=ss_embed- Okay, my blog is mostly spatial but one must admit representing data on a map is not always the best solutionhttp://www.ericson.net/content/2011/10/when-maps-shouldnt-be-maps/- About animated geospatial datahttp://radar.oreilly.com/2011/10/animated-geo-data.html- Unusual cartograms. I prefer these ones because geometries are not altered. I think I'll write an article on achieving a similar result in R.http://indiemaps.com/blog/2009/10/classed-cartograms/http://indiemaps.com/blog/2008/12/noncontiguous-area-cartograms/- An interesting statistical representation. I think I'll give it a try with R using spdep package. I'll publish the solution in a future posthttp://www.fastcodesign.com/1665327/infographic-if-7-billion-people-lived-in-one-city-how-big-would-it-be- Metadata is almost always literal. Could we use a new term MetaMap, which would be metadata of a map synthetized as a map (Ouch, I have an headache...)http://oegeo.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/openstreetmap-data-temperature-how-it-was-done-and-do-it-yourself/- Crime rates as topographic maps: why not?http://weburbanist.com/2010/09/17/criminal-contours-crime-rates-as-topographic-maps/- Jack Kerouac Litteracy as wonderful information graphics&#160;http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/04/literary_organisms_jack_kerouac.html- A website to understand maths by Apple designer Bret Victor. After all, designing information or whatever is all about making things simpler and accessible, isn't it?http://worrydream.com/KillMath/ AVAILABLE DATA- Tutorials and guidelines on how to participate to Open Street Map with this websitehttp://www.learnosm.org/- Open Public Transportation Maps:http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Openptmap- R and OpenStreetMaphttp://www.r-bloggers.com/visualizing-gis-data-with-r-and-open-street-map/- I'll soon publish a post comparing the newly available Digital Elevation Model GDEM ASTER and the Digital Terrain Model from the French National Geographic Institute using Rhttp://slashgeo.org/2011/10/26/ASTER-Global-DEM-GDEM-Version-2-Released-Significant-UpdatesABOUT MAKING MAPS- Several techniques on making maps using free toolshttp://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-thematic-map-using-free-tools/- Making maps with Rhttp://gislounge.com/making-maps-with-r/?utm_source=feedburner&#38;utm_medium=feed&#38;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gislounge+%28GIS+Lounge%29- Another one on the same subjecthttp://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/scicomp/usecases/CreateMapsWithRGraphicsAROUND WEBSERVICES&#160;- A webservice search engine, for example with keyword "geographic"http://webservices.seekda.com/search?q=geographic- Using MapQuest Elevation Service inside a&#160; script:http://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com/2011/10/using-web-service-for-elevation-from.html- Always about MapQuest: no preset limit on Free Map API Transactions:http://devblog.mapquest.com/2011/11/17/no-preset-limit-on-free-map-api-transactions/- Always about web API services, here is a tutorial on how to map research hot spots using Google Maps API with Rhttp://spatial-analyst.net/wiki/index.php?title=Mapping_research_hot-spotsSPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS&#160;- Using LIDAR in archaeology.http://blog.lidarnews.com/lidar-and-landscape-archaeology?utm_source=feedburner&#38;utm_medium=feed&#38;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InTheScan+%28LiDAR+News%29&#38;utm_content=Netvibes- A nice resource if you wish to dig into spatial statshttp://geography.uoregon.edu/geogr/topics/index.html- Spatial stats and models could help predict social violence and harmony. A study made for Switzerland.http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/peace-boundaries/SOFTWARES&#160;- workshops on developing OGC compliant web appshttp://workshops.opengeo.org/geoext/- GRASS in the cloudhttp://www.slideshare.net/lucadelu/grass-cloud- Some PostGIS 2.0 cheat sheets. The main new functionalities of PostGIS are native raster support and topology functions. http://www.bostongis.com/blog/index.php?/archives/179-PostGIS-2.0-Cheat-sheets-in-the-works.html- On my blog, you'll find some resources about the spatial ETL Talend -  Spatial Data Integrator. Here are some keynotes of another tool: Pentaho Based ETL GeoKettle from Spatialyticshttp://www.spatialytics.org/geomondrian/foss4g-2011-presentation-%E2%80%9Cbuilding-professional-geo-analytical-dashboards-reports-and-apps-with-geobiext%E2%80%9D-now-online/ http://www.spatialytics.org/geokettle/foss4g-2011-presentation-geokettle-the-open-source-spatial-etl-tool-overview-new-features-and-roadmap-now-online/[FR]ENCH ARTICLES- Très bon article sur les bonnes pratiques et astuces pour l'administration et l'exploitation d'une base de données PostgreSQL / PostGishttp://www.portailsig.org/content/postgresql-postgis-bonnes-pratiques-et-astuces - Je  cherchais depuis longtemps un article&#160; efficace, progressif et  pédagogique sur les expressions régulières. Je l'ai trouvé.http://www.portailsig.org/content/la-recherche-d-elements-par-expressions-regulieres-rationnelles-regular-expression-preambule&#160;- Toujours un article de Martin Laloux, la procédure pour télécharger les dalles du modèle numérique d'élévation GDEM ASTER http://www.forumsig.org/showthread.php?t=32548- Un document technique du Centre d'études sur les Réseaux, les Transports, l'Urbanisme et les constructions publiques sur la constitution et l'exploitation de données agrégées à la maille.&#160;"Raster or Vector, that is the question"http://georezo.net/blog/sigurba/2011/11/01/eloge-de-la-maille/&#160;- Un guide de 260 pages sur les solutions opensource (300 solutions  référencées) édité par la société Smile. N'hésitez pas à jeter un coup  d'oeil à leurs livres blancs, notamment celui sur l'ergonomie de sites internets et le décisionnel opensourcehttp://www.smile.fr/Livres-blancs/Culture-du-web/Guide-de-l-open-source- Un article intéressant sur l'infonuagique (Cloud Computing en anglais)http://georezo.net/blog/geointerop/2011/11/15/cloud-computing-un-nouveau-defi-pour-la-geomatique/- Saviez-vous que des Web Processing Services sur la BDCartage étaient disponibles? Plus d'infos ici:http://geotraitements.eaufrance.fr/spip.php?rubrique40- J'avais rédigé auparavant un document concernant une méthode d'analyse de l'évolution de la tâche urbaine.Si ce sujet vous intéresse, ce document sur le modèle SpaCelle vous intéressera sans doute.http://www.cairn.info/revue-espace-geographique-2003-4-page-357.htm