Archive for February 20th, 2006





The Travel Show podcast

Feb 20th, 2006 | By Jesse

Alan Lew over at the Geography for Travelers podcast recently pointed to the new Travel Show podcast.  This 5 episode old podcast “takes you on a virtual tour of the world, exposing you to places you’ve never been and taking you back to the places you remember fondly.”   As always I am curious to see [...]



A little more self-promotion

Feb 20th, 2006 | By Jesse

We recently wrote an article for Geo:Connexion on how new media can be used to support Geography and geospatial technologies. The article is now available through the digital version of the publication at the link below.
GEO:connexion Online: March 2006 Issue



Microsoft awards academic grants for Virtual Earth research projects

Feb 20th, 2006 | By Sue

On Feb 16th, Microsoft announced the winners of its Trustworthy Computing and Virtual Earth academic grants competition. 23 grants were awarded, totaling $1 million. The maximum amount for each grant was $50,000 and 8 recipients were awarded grants for Virtual Earth RFP, which is “designed to encourage university research in areas relevant to digital geography, [...]



5th International Symposium on Digital Earth – SF2007

Feb 20th, 2006 | By Jesse

We came across information on the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth that will take place in the summer of 2007 in San Francisco. The call for papers should be coming out soon and abstracts will be due in June. In addition, there is information on the Inaugural Digital Earth Summit on Sustainability that [...]