Archive for February 13th, 2006





Federal Enterprise Architecture Geospatial Profile

Feb 13th, 2006 | By

On January 26th, the Federal Chief Information Officers Council (CIO) in conjunction with the Federal Geographic Data Committee released for public review the FEA Geospatial Profile, a 158 page report intended to lay out how geospatial technologies should be designed and deployed both in government and non-government settings. Although the Geospatial Profile has a lot [...]



GEOCAST: taking podcasts and vidcasts into the classroom

Feb 13th, 2006 | By

I noticed a new Geography feed on iTunes called Higher Geography the other day, but I couldn’t get it to download so I forgot about.  Today, the files I tried to connect to earlier were available and I have to say I am impressed.  The content does not rival Terra which I posted about last [...]



Conference episodes poll, new feed or keep together

Feb 13th, 2006 | By

We plan to do daily episodes from various conferences that we will be attending, but we are not sure whether to create a new subscription feed that will be just for our dailies or if we should just keep everything in the original feed. The down side of keeping it in the same feed would [...]



Geosoft’s $100,000 Software Giveaway

Feb 13th, 2006 | By

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Geosoft, the maker of geosciences mapping and visualization software, is holding a contest for free Geosoft software. One winner a month will be drawn, and will receive copies of Geosoft’s products. To enter, head over to the $100,000 Software Giveaway site Via GISUser