Archive for October 7th, 2005





Show notes for AVSP Episode 11

Oct 7th, 2005 | By Jesse

VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 11
October 02, 2005
Main Topic: Global warming
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Putting Shapefiles into Virtual Earth

Oct 7th, 2005 | By Jesse

We received an email from a Redmond employee who created a Virtual Earth shapefile loader. This has been pointed to by several sites including James at Spatially Adjusted. If I hadn’t been a slacker for the last week I would have already blogged it…
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Spatially Adjusted: Putting Shapefies into Virtual Earth



OpenStreetMap – open source web mapping project

Oct 7th, 2005 | By Sue

This is an ongoing open source project based in the UK that I read about on Mappinghacks.com,
whose main goal is to provide free geographic data to anyone. openstreetmap was basically started because geographic data is not free in many countries, unlike sources like the National Map here in the US.
If you are interested in [...]



Online navigating changing our lives

Oct 7th, 2005 | By Frank

Wired has an interesting article/commentary about how online maps are changing the way we interface our entire lives. I think the next to the last sentance sums up the concerns nicely… “That’s the SimCity trap, emphasizing spatial relationships over more intimate, human considerations.”