Archive for February 2nd, 2006





New Location Based Services in Japan

Feb 2nd, 2006 | By Frank

A company called Mapion has launched a new service that lets phone users point at a building, click, and find out what’s in that building.  If your phone is GPS and integrated compass enabled, you can wonder around the streets of Tokyo pointing and clicking all over the place to find out what’s in what [...]



Yes, even you can afford Virtual Reality

Feb 2nd, 2006 | By Sue

This NY Times article from back in January takes a look at some of the ways people are creating Virtual Reality setups without having to spend a million dollars to do it. Although the article is focused on VR for artists, a number of geographers and others interested in geovisualization have been doing work involving [...]



Book review of Tweed’s Crossing and Dwelling

Feb 2nd, 2006 | By Jesse

The American Religious Experience at http://are.as.wvu.edu is an online journal which has been in publication for nearly a decade, which is edited by Briane Turley of WVU. In our continuing effort to support the folks we know, Mike Ferber (a fellow grad student) has recently published a review of Thomas Tweed’s newest book, Crossing [...]



Laser-Scan’s new Radius Studio

Feb 2nd, 2006 | By Jesse

I know that Jeff at Vector One mentioned his interest in this product last week and today I received Laser-Scans enewsletter so I thought I might quote from it…
“Radius Studio acts as a spatial processing, analysis and compliance engine offering domain experts the possibility to create, review and refine business rules for spatial data across [...]