Archive for February 2006





MS Street-Side Preview Live

Feb 28th, 2006 | By Frank

Microsoft has just released thier Street-Side product in preview mode. It’s a pretty nifty implementation of AJAX technology and mapping. You can type in an address and get a split screen view of the map of the area, and the view you’d see if you were in a race car, sports car, or [...]



Six 24-inch displays as one…ooooooooooo

Feb 27th, 2006 | By Jesse

Engadget has a link to a new multimonitor setup that is just plain pretty.  The question is whether or not you can find a graphics card that can drive your needs.
New Zenview offers six 24-inch displays as one – Engadget



Newly-Issued Patent may threaten Rich Media applications

Feb 27th, 2006 | By Sue

You may have seen this already if you read tech news or blogs (Adena over at AllPoints Blog mentioned it this morning), but a patent issued on February 14th for web-based applications that use rich media like Flash, Ajax, and Java. That would mean that any Internet-base rich media applications that use dynamic movement, including [...]



GRASS GIS on Digg

Feb 26th, 2006 | By Sue

GRASS GIS, the free GIS software package that was first developed in the early 1980s by the US Army Construction Engineering Research Lab (USA-CERL). Version 6.0.2 of GRASS was just released on February 22nd. GRASS has a worldwide user and developer community, and in fact the official site is now on an Italian domain. [...]



Show notes for AVSP Episode 32

Feb 26th, 2006 | By Jesse

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 32
February 25, 2006
Main Topic: Interview with Rob Elkins and Brian Goldin of the ESRI Development Team.
Click to directly download Episode 32
Click for the detailed shownotes



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 32

Feb 26th, 2006 | By Jesse

Main Topic: Interview with Rob Elkins and Brian Goldin. News: Microsoft Grants, USGIF scholarships, Powell at Intergraph 2006



Mashup Camp

Feb 26th, 2006 | By Sue

On February 11th and 12th, the first Mashup Camp was held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The goal of the camp was get anyone interested in mashups, from mashup developers to API providers to mashup enablers, together in one place to talk about and see all kinds of mashups and get [...]



More NPR on Geospatial

Feb 26th, 2006 | By Jesse

Import Cartography points out an interesting spot on NPR’s Weekend Edition (Feb 25) that discusses the use of the National Grid for emergency response and general use.
NPR – New Kind of Map Could Help Emergency Response



Podcast and blog panel at AAG

Feb 25th, 2006 | By Jesse

While we have enough people for our AAG panel on podcasting and blogging in Geography, I would like to add another 1 or 2 folks to round it out. If you are a blogger or if you are just a heavy blog and podcast visitor/listener and are interested in joining us Wednesday morning at the [...]



Woman versus machine

Feb 24th, 2006 | By Jesse

On Episode 2 of InDigital, an IPTV show/video podcast, in a review of the Magellan Roadmate 800, they pitted a host with the Roadmate against a host with her own knowledge of Los Angeles in a 2 stop race to see who could get to the stops and back to the starting point first.  The [...]