I read a ton of GIS blogs. They are great for killing time and for learning. What a great combination! This list will expand as I get some time to import my Google reader account into my blogroll. Also, if you know of a blog that I don’t have listed (which I know there are tons not listed) let me know.
| Blog | Description |
| Very Spatial | Created by former WVU grad students, VerySpatial is a great source of GIS information and podcasts, and my buddy Jeff Dunn is now a contributor! |
| All Points Blog | From Directions Magazine, the All Points Blog is one of the best sources of everything GIS, from education to technology. A great resource on the pulse of GIS. |
| James Fee GIS Blog | James Fee’s blog on GIS is one of the most read and most informative blogs in all of GIS |
| Po Ve Sham | A great blog on the usability of geospatial technologies, GIScience & environmental information. A lot of great information about Open Street Map |
| The Offical Blog of Fortius One | FortiusOne is a geospatial technology company who are doing some really innovative work in regards to data visualization, online geospatial analysis, and data sharing. Their blog highlights some of their recent developments and projects they are working on. I’m a fan. |
| Mapperz, The Mapping News Blog | A great blog with a lot of information about Google Maps and some interesting mash-ups |
| SlashGeo | A GeoNews blog with tons of news about the Geo industries |
| Stamen Design | Stamen is doing some awesome stuff regarding the visualization of geographic data on the web. Check them out. |
| FloatingSheep | FloatingSheep, a collaborative research endeavor between researchers at the University of Kentucky and Oxford has generated a lot of buzz with their creative and interesting geospatial data mining from Google Maps. |
| Outside the Neatline | From my former coworkers at the Map and Geographic Information Center at the University of Connecticut, Outside the Neatline focuses on a number of different geo topics from geoeducation to geotechnologies. |
| Google Lat Long Blog | Updates and news from the Google Maps Team. A good read for those who develop Google Maps. |
| Geographika | A good technical GIS blog with posts on a variety of topics from OpenLayers, Spatial SQL, and hardware configurations. |
| Geospatial Analysts | Have questions about GIS tools, or are you looking for some scripts for that hard to solve GIS task? The Geospatial Analyst may have the answer for you. |
| GIS and Science | Written by Matt Artz of Esri, this blog shares a number of academic journal abstracts from a variety of fields that are incorporating GIS into their research. |
| Guerrilla GIS | Great blog with many technical programming tips and tricks. |
| Spatial Law and Policy | Not a topic I think about regularly, but many good posts regarding topics that relate to many issues facing the common GIS professional. | Borderlines | Written by Frank Jacobs and published in the New York Times, this weekly blog discusses the complexities to the geographies that define us. Check some of his other work |
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