Archive for November 7th, 2005





ASA-CSSA-SSSA Day 1

Nov 7th, 2005 | By Jesse

I am skipping out on sessions right now, but I will head back in a few. Salt Lake City is still a nice town (I was here in March for the NRCS cultural resource specialists meeting). The conference seems a little smaller than I expected since it is three groups at one conference. [...]



TWiTs speak on patents

Nov 7th, 2005 | By Jesse

After my comments on patents recently I was gleeful to hear the gents at TWiT echo my feelings on the ambiguity and overlap of patents. It was around the 22 minute mark in Episode 29.



avsp Episode 16 back up

Nov 7th, 2005 | By Jesse

I am not entirely sure it was actually corrupt, but the current version is good.



Online mapping from the data gatherers’ perspective

Nov 7th, 2005 | By Sue

I just finished an article on CNET.com by Elinor Mills that poses the all-important question – why are the route directions and locations often inaccurate. She posed this question to a TeleAtlas (a major data provider) executive, Michael Mitsock, and received this response – “It could be that the map is out of synch with [...]



Goin’ Mobile!

Nov 7th, 2005 | By Frank

Google local is going mobile! You can now download google maps to your cellphone, if you’ve got the right service. And phone. And location. And are willing to shell the clams for it. A rather hefty premium to step onto the location based service monorail to the future, if you [...]