An interesting article from The Daily Times (Salisbury, Maryland) discusses the impact of rising sea levels on the Maryland coastline, including the submergence of numerous small islands and talks briefly about a joint project between the USGS and Maryland DNR that mapped portions of the coastline using highly-accurate LIDAR technology.
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 23 December 25, 2005 Main Topic: 2005 Year in Review Click to directly download Episode 23 Click for the detailed shownotes
‘Tis the season to be jolly! We here at VerySpatial would like to wish you all a bunch of fun and some time off! (apologies to those of you stuck at work)
This is great for all of you who celebrate Christmas and have kids! I even remember watching the news breaks on Christmas Eve as NORAD tracked the sleigh across Europe and over the North Atlantic before I had to go to bed. While there isn’t an interactive map you can check out the website at [...]
Adena Schutzberg over at Directions Magazine/AllPointsBlog has posted her top 10 for the geospatial industry. The obvious ones are in there (Google, MapServer Foundation, USGS) along with a few that are pretty interesting.
The GEODE (Geographic Data in Education) Initiative “is dedicated to the improvement of Earth and environmental science education through the use of data visualization and analysis tools to support inquiry-based pedagogy.” The have created two data viewers that are available for download: My World GIS (45 day demo version) and WorldWatcher. These software packages are [...]
MapMemo is a neat little desktop program that let’s you drag and drop any file on a map to create a location-based pointer to the original file. The problems with MapMemo? MacOSX only and if the default map doesn’t work for you then you have to generate your own and bring it in. I also [...]
The Geographic and Land Information Society has announced their Annual GIS Competion for high schools, sponsored by ESRI. Basically, high schools submit projects to the competition by the deadline of March 15, 2006, and the winners will be notified by April 1st. Entry forms, rules for project submissions, and information on prizes can be found [...]
That’s right! Our sooo cute new mascot needs a name! Just send us an email with your suggestion for what to name our bear, and Jesse, Frank, and I will choose the winning name. The person who provides the best name will receive one of our mascot’s litter mates and a matching T-shirt. All email [...]
