Telcontar, a well-known location-based services company, has announced the release of their new AJAX-based API, which is available for download from the Telcontar Developer Zone. , a free online service that allows developers to create applications that utilize Telcontar’s Drill Down Server and other features. Telcontar has emerged as a major player in LBS and [...]
Matt from GIS for Archaeology and CRM posted a great example of how SketchUp has been used to support historic research to recreate buildings based on historic records and photographs. Historic Reconstruction with SketchUp
This week Sue, Frank and I will be helping to put on the WV GIS Forums and Workshops, which means some of us will be doing our day jobs in the evenings. But we will be bringing you a couple of interview/discussions along with what I hope will turn out to be a person-on-the-street (in [...]
We don’t normally post computer game information here, but this one is noteworthy, I think. You play the part of a secret agent who runs around a geographic area doing missions. The noteworthy part is that the map is 390 square miles! In gaming perspective, the largest single player game made thus far is only [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 43 May 14, 2006 Main Topic: Desktop GIS Click to directly download Episode 43 Click for the detailed shownotes
I got an email press release the other day from Natalia at Schmap, and just now got a chance to check out the Schmap Player and Schmap Guides, which are still in beta. The player is freeware, and is a small download (about 5 mgs). The interface is the by-now familiar map in the center, [...]
We have taken all of the GIS software that you have so diligently sent to us (special thanks to leszekmp) and made a long list of links. Over the summer we hope to make similar lists for Remote Sensing, web mapping, and server side geospatial software as well, but since this one took us a [...]
That’s right – always know which way you’re going with the Compass Coat, part of a research project on wearable devices, so sadly not available for purchase anytime soon. The coat indicates north with glowing shapes integrated into the fabric. Via We-Make-Money-Not_Art
I haven’t highlighted a really good GIS project in awhile, so I thought I’d mention the Amazon GIS project, run by the Smithsonian Institution and other collaborators. They have spent years mapping the Amazon’s resources and have a number of Internet map services in conjunction with ESRI, World Wildlife Fund, the USGS, and Conservation International [...]
Iowa State, a long time leader in the VR realm, has upped the ante by taking their 6 wall VR room from 6 projectors to 24 (4 per wall). The reason this is important is that the increased pixel counts across the 10′ x 10′ walls make for a more realistic representation of your virtual [...]
