A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 18
Nov 20th, 2005 | By JesseMain Topic: Migration: The Human Journey. News: Internet control, Greenwich CT data issues, AR GIS High School Students.
Archive for November 2005
Show notes for AVSP Episode 18
Nov 20th, 2005 | By JesseA VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 18 November 20, 2005 Main Topic: Migration Click to directly download Episode 18 Click for the detailed shownotes
GAW wrap up
Nov 19th, 2005 | By JesseWell, today is the last day of Geography Awareness Week. I just wanted to offer up a couple of links for you to check out to see what happened this week. The first is GISDay.com which gives links to overviews of this years events. The other is the National Geographic Geography Awareness Week website. Check [...]
GAW Day 5: Applied Geography
Nov 18th, 2005 | By SueDuring our posts this week, we have talked about some of the main branches of geography, including physical and human geography, and the closely related discipline of cartography. For our final discussion, it seemed that Applied Geography would be an ideal topic, since its focus is using geographic research in an area of specialty and [...]
Sony’s DRM Damage Mapped
Nov 18th, 2005 | By FrankSony stepped into all sorts of trouble with thier copy protection scheme on CDs. Although they claim the damage is minimal, the folks over at Doxpara Research claim otherwise. Since Sony’s scheme calls home, the Doxpara folks figured there would an entry in DNS servers around the world showing the call home. Doing an analysis, [...]
“The Codification of Humanity” – from the Trends blog
Nov 17th, 2005 | By SueI was catching up on some of the entries from the Trends blog and I found an entry about a video by Chris Oakley called The Catalogue. Just as Jesse’s post from Wednesday likened the rapidly developing technologies in location-based services to a real-life “Marauder’s Map”, this video uses footage from a shopping mall and [...]
Cartography and GIS – from GeoWorld October 2005
Nov 17th, 2005 | By SueHead over to Geoplace.com for a nice article from GeoWorld on the relationship between GIS and Cartography by Tony Daniels and Kapil Chhabra, which fits nicely with Jesse’s post below. (Note: The link above was broken, but has been restored – 11/18/05)
GAW Day 4: Cartography
Nov 17th, 2005 | By JesseSo far this week we have talked about the main areas of consideration in Geography (physical and human) and the modern technologies that underpin them (GIS Day). Today we look at perhaps the oldest portion of geography, cartography. While not all cartographers are geographers, nor are all geographers cartographers, there is a deep symbiotic relationship [...]
Google Middle Earth
Nov 17th, 2005 | By JesseBeginning our cartography focus for the day…From the Shire to Mordor, you can find your way and get to know the landscape with the new Google Middle Earth. Includes a multimedia laden route showing the path of the fellowship. The Toque – Canadian Humour, Parody, & Satire – Google Introduces Google Middle Earth Via OgleEarth [...]
Internet domain addressing control to stay with ICANN for now
Nov 16th, 2005 | By SueAn agreement was reached last night, ahead of the UN World Summit on the Information Society, to keep the Internet domain addressing control under ICANN, which is under the nominal control of the US Dept of Commerce. A new group, the Internet Governance Forum, has been created to look at Internet issues. It has no [...]
