Comments on: Scientific Locations Mapped

By: Scott Kardel

Scott Kardel — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:50:48 +0000

Palomar Observatory

By: شات صوتي

شات صوتي — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:18:42 +0000

Why not use DBPedia or FreeBase for extracting such information? I guess a lot of it has already

By: Rhys

Rhys — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:36:45 +0000

Great idea David.

It’s interesting to see how facilities in the UK have been distributed around the country. There’s the expected concentration around London but also a fair spread throughout the UK.

A couple of suggestions:
Harwell Science and Innovation Campus – OX11 0RL

Daresbury Laboratory – WA4 4AD

By: @natronics

@natronics — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:10:39 +0000

Great idea! I actually thought of something like this, but for optical observatories. I worked on it for a week or so back in college then got distracted by something else :). But for some reason that page is still hosted by the university despite having graduated several years ago. You can see/scrape data off it here:

http://www.appstate.edu/~nb52552/observatories.html

As Egon said there are several places that have collections of such data, though they might take some digging and cleaning up.

By: Albert Jan Bloemendal

Albert Jan Bloemendal — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:34:31 +0000

Hi There,

You left out the Netherlands. Think about University’s in Amsterdam (8 co-writers to Al Core Nobel prize) and Leiden (Hyugens, Einstein, Lorentz, Kamerlingh Onnes) . Think about Philips Natlab in Eindhoven (CD)

kind regards AJ

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:53:00 +0000

@Tim Thanks for the list, all places now added.

@TJ Good suggestion!

By: David Sunfellow

David Sunfellow — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:30:12 +0000

RT @guykawasaki: Google Map of scientific locations http://tweet.alltop.com/5n65

By: tim

tim — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:55:43 +0000

Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Los Alamos, white sands, savannah river plant (sc). super collider site in waxahatchie tx; then there’s also a bunch of NASA sites that should qualify… how about fusion research? ITER site in france, JET in oxford,

By: Avi Steiner

Avi Steiner — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:07:35 +0000

I remember reading somewhere that the wheel is thought to have been invented in sumeria, but don’t quote me on that. Even if I did read that somewhere, that of course doesn’t mean it’s correct.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:56:11 +0000

Thanks for the pointer…I was thinking a book of the map might be a good idea. Feel free to add the map to your blog any time, it’s never going to be done, I wouldn’t have thought…