Archive for March 2006





Get from Here to There using Photos

Mar 30th, 2006 | By

ShinyShiny, a tech gadget blog especially for girls, posted a review of the new Navman icn720 and 750 GPS in-car navigation systems that let you use photos to navigate to places. The unit has a built-in camera, so you just snap a picture of the IKEA store, your favorite restaurant, or whatever, and the photo [...]



High-resolution DEMs in our backyard

Mar 29th, 2006 | By

Glenn over at Anything Geospatial (nice new interface BTW) blogged about something in-house for us, so I figured we should mention it too…the West Virginia GIS Technical Center has made available 3m DEMs for WV that were derived as part of the State Address and Mapping project that has also provided us with high resolution [...]



MapMemo

Mar 29th, 2006 | By

MapMemo, as you might remember is the MacOS X only software that allows you to drag and drop system folders and web links onto a map (or any raster image). MapMemo has released a new version (2.5) and has distributed a press release on a new map archive to be used with their software. They [...]



Geografia Para Llevar – un podcast extraordinario

Mar 28th, 2006 | By

Es verdad…this week we saw the introduction of ANOTHER geography podcast. I am very excited about this one since, as far as I know, it is the first non-english Geography podcast. I am also excited since it will give me a reason to listen to Spanish and hopefully remember some of what I have forgotten [...]



An Imaginary City in Detail

Mar 28th, 2006 | By

This is kind of off the beat from normal geography stuff, but this guy in France who is 28 and is autistic has created a detailed city named Urville from his imagination. He has a detailed geography, culture, politics, history, and economics for the city, as well as a few hundred drawings of the city! [...]



See a total solar eclipse “live” on your computer

Mar 28th, 2006 | By

Tomorrow (Wednesday) there will be a total or near-total solar eclipse that will be visible in parts of Europe, Africa, and South America (see this guide from MSNBC). For the rest of us, however, NASA and the Exploratorium will be offering a live satellite broadcast of the eclipse from Side, Turkey, starting at 5am Eastern [...]



Quake 4 SDK

Mar 28th, 2006 | By

Over the last few years the idea of serious games has come on to the scene as computer game technology has outstripped anything that can be created in a university or other research environment, it has even spawned its own conference (that I am going to try to attend this year). It is obvious that [...]



First Annual Virtual Globes Scientific Users Conference

Mar 27th, 2006 | By

We had a session devoted to Virtual Globes at the AAG Annual Meeting, and now there is going to be an entire conference sponsored by research centers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Arctic Region Supercomputing Center and the University of Colorado Boulder. The 2-day Virtual Globes Scientific Users Conference will focus specifically on the [...]



Show notes for AVSP Episode 36

Mar 26th, 2006 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 36 March 26, 2006 Main Topic: Interviews with Microsoft and ESRI Click to directly download Episode 36 Click for the detailed shownotes



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 36

Mar 26th, 2006 | By

Main Topics: Interviews from EDS06 with Microsoft and ESRI. News: Location Based DRM patent, Windows Live Development tools, and US Federal Geospatial offices.