Thursday, October 22, 2009

Project Mannahatta - Before the City


For those of you who are not familiar with the TED site, it is a site about ideas. Guest speakers give short presentations which are posted online about technology, science, and art. To anyone interested in these fields I strongly suggest adding TED to your favorites folder.

A featured presentation recently posted on TED spotlighted the Mannahatta project, run by Eric Sanderson. He uses state of the art Geospatial Information System (GIS) technology to recreate Manhattan before European settlers arrived. This is a fantastic history of our favorite island from an ecological perspective.

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