If you are at all interested in 3D virtual reconstructions and immersive technologies, then you have to check out Microsoft Live Labs’ Photosynth. It is too cool, although it’s not available to the public yet, but the demo videos are amazing. Basically, Photosynth “takes a collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them [...]

Wow, TV sucks. Apparently the live broadcast moon videos from the 1969 landing were actually much better than we’ve ever realized. The camera used to film the footage wasn’t capatible with TV specifications and had to be downgraded to be put on the air. How’d they do that, you ask? Easy! [...]

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 54
July 30, 2006
Main Topic: Discussion with Daniel Raven Ellison about Geography in the media.
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Ed emailed us with a nice roundup of open courseware directories and clearinghouses. We have posted about a couple of them previously, but I thought it would be good to highlight them again along with several new ones that Ed mentioned. For those of you who don’t know, open courseware refers to online material from [...]

Listener Jody pointed out a great project that was highlighted on last weeks Living on Earth. CyberTracker allows anyone to capture information, including location, about animal movements. The software uses an interface that can be used by anyone from non-literate bushman to wildlife agents on a simple mobile hardware platform. The software [...]

The VerySpatial crew spent the day today digging the ‘foundation’ for Frank’s new walkway that extends the length of the front of his house. The up shot is that Sue and I found that our mad digging skills that were honed as field archaeologists have definitely atrophied during our stint as keyboard jockeys. [...]

Yes, it is a shamless plug, I know. But, we wrote a short article about the ‘New Media’, including podcasts, blogs, etc. and their role in disseminating information about geography and geospatial technologies, and it was accepted for the latest issue (July-September 2006) of ArcUser magazine. We’re very excited, naturally, and hope you check it [...]

The current issue of ArcNews has an article from AAG Executive Director, Doug Richardson, on an initiative to link Humanities and Geography. As you may have noted this is high on the to do list as part of our day job for Sue and I. We are in fact in the early stages [...]

Who knew avians could be so high tech? A new study of real-time air pollution is being undertaken using, of all things, pigeons. Little monitors are strapped to the backs of the pigeons and data is beamed back to Earth and published on the web in real time. Apparently the data will [...]

There are two bits of ArcGIS Server related information of note today. The first is that Jeremy, one of the key people behind Mapdex, is heading over to the core ArcGIS Server team…good luck Jeremy! The other news is James’ scoop on the new tiered structure for ArcGIS Server that will apparently provide [...]