Archive for August 7th, 2005





GPS added to school buses

Aug 7th, 2005 | By

While the use of GPS to track and route vehicles for corporations such as UPS and FedEx is nothing, it is always nice to see these technologies filter down to an everyday use. Nashville City Paper



Google urged to drop reactor images

Aug 7th, 2005 | By

This article from news.com.au that I picked up from SlashDot ties into a topic that we covered in the podcast this week…the concern over what high resolution aerial/satellite imagery is appropriate to release and what is not. The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation is concerned about the easy access to information, in this case [...]



Show notes for AVSP Episode 03

Aug 7th, 2005 | By

VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 03 August 7, 2005 Main Topic: A brief overview of the history of GIS Click for the detailed shownotes



A Very Spatial Podcast – Episode 03

Aug 7th, 2005 | By

A brief overview of the history of GIS, data issues and questions of accessibility



Geotag Flickr

Aug 7th, 2005 | By

Spatial multimedia (pictures, video, audio, etc linked to a specific location) has been a goal for many researchers over the last decade in order to link qualitative information to the more quantitative GIS information. Now with the explosion of web-based mapping it has become a simple task to create hyperlink this media to specific locations. [...]