Archive for September 15th, 2005





BBC NEWS | Ancient humans ‘altered’ climate

Sep 15th, 2005 | By Jesse

This is an interesting note on how we have been altering the climate for quit some time. Carl Sauer was conducting research in the early part of the last century on how prehistoric peoples in the New World have been altering the landscape by clearing large areas. This of course can be linked [...]



The art of cartography

Sep 15th, 2005 | By Jesse

This is, along with the discussion on data vs interface taking place on various blogs today, a nice lead-in to our podcast this weekend on ‘What is geographic information’. With the software that are being used and the data needs of today the maps abstraction, which can be tied to its art, has decreased. [...]



SRTM data now available from Geosoft’s public server

Sep 15th, 2005 | By Sue

Geosoft has added Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data to its public server. Elevation data for basically the whole world is available at 90 meter resolution and the US at 30 meter resolution. I checked out the site, and the data is in the public domain and free to download.
Here is the link to their [...]



DepthQ stereo projector from In Focus/RealD/Stereographics

Sep 15th, 2005 | By Jesse

I have been waiting to get my hands on one before I blogged this. Clearly I have one, a demo unit from ShaperTechnology, and it lives up to its hype. This is a 800×600, 1600 Lumens DLP projector that can project active stereo images at 120 MHz. This means that when used [...]