Archive for October 4th, 2005





RSS Aggregator vs visiting site

Oct 4th, 2005 | By Jesse

I have gone back and forth between using an aggregator (currently SharpReader) and just going to the web sites of my various sites. The great thing about an aggregator is that you don’t have to worry about wandering from page to page, folks can send you RSS links or OPMLs for you to import [...]



GPS: The Movie

Oct 4th, 2005 | By Frank

On the lighter side today, there is finally vindication for anyone jealous over physical geography getting all the good movie plots (The Day After Tomorrow anyone?)…
It’s GPS! The Movie!.
Plot (no pun intended) summary: A group of adventure seeking college kids embark on a GPS treasure hunt in the Northwest wilderness. They are [...]



DigitalGlobe announces plans for 2 new imaging satellites

Oct 4th, 2005 | By Sue

DigitalGlobe just announced their plans to launch 2 new imaging satellites, WorldView I and WorldView II, with WorldView I scheduled to launch no later than 2006 and WorldView II no later than 2008.
Check out the details at the DigitalGlobe website or read the press release at Geoplace.com



David Rumsey on the Future of Mapping – via ITConversations

Oct 4th, 2005 | By Sue

While we were at the Podcasting Symposium last week, we heard a presentation from the guy from ITConversations, which is an online catalog for audio presentations. They mainly cover IT related conferences and speakers, but some of them are relevant to geospatial technologies, and they are adding new links every day. You can check out [...]



PixelSense 742

Oct 4th, 2005 | By Jesse

We here at VerySpatial have received our first honest to goodness press release! What is more, its for an actually useful product. Pixel742 generates distributable GeoTIFFs from Landsat bands 7, 4, & 2 to create a Natural color output. There is a demo but I haven’t plyed with it yet.
PixelSense [...]