I have not been keeping up with my blog, and that is not good. My school-related tasks have been formidable. In March I took my comprehensive exams (I wrote for five days and produced a 20,000 word document), and last week I defended them. I am also taking classes in Prescribed Burning and Linear Regression. But I resolve again to pay more attention to this blog. I am never short on ideas.
This morning I came across an interesting article in which Google Earth helps an orphan find his home village. A five-year old boy working with his older brother sweeping trains and stations in India fell asleep on a train station bench. When he woke up, he could not find his brother. He saw a train and assumed his brother was on it, so he got on. His brother was not on the train. He fell asleep again and woke up in Calcutta fourteen hours later. He did not know the name of the village in which he lived and had no way to get back, at least not until 25 years later. You can read the rest after the jump, but it involves Google Earth (one of my favorite topics), and the basic GIS principal of using time and distance to calculate a buffer.
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