A Mexican government funded commission is moving to distribute 70,000 maps to aid people trying to cross into the US. They will feature water cache locations, show transportation routes, and locations of rescue beacons. Although I’m not an expert, this is one of the first instances I’ve heard of a government using mapping to help [...]
The University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center for Lifelong Learning & Design is working on a cool project called Silence of the Lands. Participants use handheld devices to record and geoerefence ambient sounds which are then added to a GIS to generate a collaborative soundscape. The researchers “look at digital cartography as a form of [...]
Engadget has a link to a review of a new GPS PDA. These devices are to support those of us who have Trimble GeoXT envy, and a budget…well kind of. Coming in at $600 MSRP, I will stick with my tablet and a PCMCIA GPS card. The review, which is at PocketNow.com, has some great [...]
For all you CAD users out there, Yahoo!News reported on Monday that Adobe is releasing Adobe Acrobat 3D, which will allow 3D files from major CAD applications to be saved as PDFs and retain their 3D characteristics. It’s not cheap at $995, but as the article points out, it will be pretty useful to people [...]
An article in Friday’s online edition of The Epoch Times reports that China will spend 200 million yuan (approximagely $25 million US) to survey the Great Wall using modern remote sensing, GPS, and GIS technology. China’s Information Center for Basic Geography will conduct the survey with the hope of determing the exact length and orientation [...]
Over at Geology.com, they’ve got a neat Google Maps mashup that shows the highest point in each of the 50 states. West Virginia’s is Spruce Knob – 4,863 feet. Alaska has the highest high point, Mount McKinley at 20,320 feet, while Florida has the lowest high point, Britton Hill at a mere 345 feet. Via [...]
For those of you familiar with the social bookmarking site Digg.com, search Digg for “geospatial” (or just click the link) and you will see that someone dugg Adena over at AllPointsBlog.com. I am definitely for this and think the community should try to see if we can get enough diggs to push this story to [...]
In a couple of weeks we are going to do an episode where we discuss what we think is important in a desktop GIS package and discuss many of the desktop GIS packages that are currently available. This is going to be the first monthly install of a multi-part series. Later we will focus on [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 27 January 22, 2006 Main Topic: Political Geography Click to directly download Episode 27 Click for the detailed shownotes
Main Topic: Political Geography. News: Stardust, New Horizons, and GeoEye.
