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A few geoblogs entries discuss the results of the U.S. presidential election that will put Barack Obama as president next January. There's clever elephant discussing the delta map of the New York Times: "One of the things I found curious about the numbers in the paper today is that while Obama won a strong Electoral College victory, his popular vote share is not much different from the share Bush won in 2004, and Bush won a squeaker in the Electoral College. The map tells the tale. McCain didn't lose support across the board, he actually improved on Bush in places, but mostly in places where the Republicans were already winning smashing majorities – more votes in Alabama don't get you any closer to the Presidency. So a respectable showing in the popular vote translates into an Electoral College whomping." Spatial Sustain shares a rather weird-looking cartogram and The Map Room shares other cartograms. Map Hawk discuss the USA Today's "Behind the Results" map. GeoMusings discuss the problems with red-blue binary maps. See also the round up before the election.

Spatial Sustain offers a nice entry named Obama’s Earth Mapping Policy. It's been a year since we mentioned the Landsat Data Continuity Mission. From the entry: "Green indicated that while the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LCDM) is now funded, there’s still a need for the incoming administration to act in order to shore up the commitment to earth observation, including the call for Imagery for the Nation. [...] In fact, Gene Whitney, former Assistant director for Environment at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, spoke solely about a reasoned approach to the incoming administration that would focus less on technology and the investments that are needed, and more on the societal benefits of earth observation." And somewhat related, the Landsat 7 data archive now provides a GeoRSS feed for updates. See also related stories below.

If you do a "Obama" search on the geoblogs using "Search geospatial blogs" text box on the upper left side of Slashgeo's page, you'll find a lot of Obama inauguration entries. To get you started, there's three entries on the Google Lat Long blog: Inaugural mashups, Virtually experience the Inauguration and Helpful maps for the Inauguration. Some related stories below.

Ruth writes " Today FortiusOne is introducing the GeoCommons News Dashboard http://news.geocommons.com/ where we're mapping breaking news stories. Our first feature, the 'ObamaMeter,' is keeping tabs on the US economy, the global economy and the stimulus through our visual dashboard. Read Sean's intro blog post here. These maps showcase the soon to be released GeoCommons API which enables you to implement a GeoCommons dashboard within your organization. For more information on the GeoCommons Dashboard visit FortiusOne or email me, ruth@fortiusone.com."