Archive for July 28th, 2005





A nice tool from NASA

Jul 28th, 2005 | By

Near real-time tracking of the ISS and satellites at NASA – Science@NASA J-Track 3D



Google: “Take browsers to the limit”

Jul 28th, 2005 | By

Take browsers to the limit: Google: ZDNet Australia: News: Software



Download Squad – Compare Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth

Jul 28th, 2005 | By

This is a great link that allows you to quickly find the differences between the two internet map viewers at Download Squad



CNN and West Nile

Jul 28th, 2005 | By

As most of us in the eastern part of the US know the West Nile Virus is here to stay. Take a look at how CNN present the spatial distribution of the virus in the US. CNN.com Specials



Historic Maps Online

Jul 28th, 2005 | By

For those of you interested in historic maps, this is the link to Visual Collections, which includes David Rumsey’s amazing collection, as well as a number of others that are impressive as well. http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/cartography.html



Looking to the future of Intergraph – GeoMedia 6.0 Product Suite

Jul 28th, 2005 | By

It is true that ESRI doesn’t have much competition at this point from the other large GIS companies (Intergraph and MapInfo). I am hoping that GeoMedia 6.0 Product Suite will kick their interface up to the level that their data integration has been at for a while.



New from ESRI, Image Server

Jul 28th, 2005 | By

I am waiting to get my hands on this to see how well it works compared to loading into a geodatabase or the similar EarthWhere. Take a look at the Image Server information at ESRI Image Server.



Send us your thoughts on AVSP

Jul 28th, 2005 | By

We now show that the podcast has been downloaded at least 30 times by someone other than me. For those of you coming to download AVSP for the first time or checking out the site after you have listened to the podcast, I encourage you to send us an email at podcast@veryspatial.com to let us [...]