The schedule for WWW2006, taking place now in Edinburgh, shows that one of the paper sessions taking place Thursday morning will focus on geospatial web applications along with a few posters that focus of geography and geotagging. Unfortunately there is nothing on GeoRSS, but I think we will be hearing quite a bit on that [...]
The Dev Summit presentations are now available in PDF format from http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/devsummit06/index.html. You don’t get the anecdotes and wisdom imparted during the presentations, but they get you the information.
There has been some research to date on spatializing audio in 3D environments. While we have 7.1 and beyond sound to give us directionality for sound there remains a need for a solid system for queing sound beyond simple avatar proximity. The last time I check on this idea about a year ago, there was [...]
Stephan over at OgleEarth links to a post by Avi Bar-Zeev, one of the Keyhole co-founders who also worked for Linden Labs (makers of Second Life), about Google Earth, what he feels it would take to achieve something like the metaverse, and why we just aren’t there yet. It’s a pretty long post, but you [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 44 May 21, 2006 Main Topic: Discussion on Metaverse Roadmap Click to directly download Episode 44 Click for the detailed shownotes
Do you think you have what it takes to be “Awesome”? It isn’t easy. There’s a test of skill and knowledge and tasty lunctime goodness. The League of Awesomeness (part of “the show with zefrank”) has thrown down the yeasty gauntlet to anyone out there who feels they can prove they have what it takes [...]
GITA and AAG have completed their Phase I report, entitled “Defining and Communicating Geospatial Industry Workforce Demand”, as part of the Department of Labor grant on the geospatial workforce. It is available for viewing and download at the AAG website at http://www.aag.org/giwis. They are actively seeking comments, and I think that all of us who [...]
URISA has posted their reponse to the Geospatial LOB RFI that was announced last month. Import Cartography links to the URISA pdf and talks a little about. In my distoriented state (recovering from the last day of conference activities and lack of sleep) I am not going to dip too deeply into their document. Instead [...]
The Research Channel is network that shows presentations on the latest research and technologies from throughout the sciences and humanities, many of which they make available online as well. If you head to the Research Channel website and do a search for geospatial or similar terms you will see the presentations they have featured. BTW [...]
I was checking out the Microsoft Research news, and I saw this press release about MapCruncher, a new prototype that helps users make mash-ups with MSN Virtual Earth of course. It is downloadable as a ZIP file, and I have downloaded it myself to play with during quiet moments at our conference. So, head over [...]
