Archive for July 2006





Fame or infamy

Jul 27th, 2006 | By

Glen recently suggested that there are no famous GIS bloggers. Well, my parents think I am quite famous…or is that infamous… OK, fine! but I have met someone famous (though they aren’t a blogger). ESRI or anyone else hiring bloggers.. come on man!



Real time traffic tracking

Jul 26th, 2006 | By

This isn’t your father’s real time traffic tracking. This is personal. Technology has been out for awhile now that can read a license plate in traffic from a distance. So what’s the news? Apparently G2 Tactics in Virginia invisions a day when its cheap enough for anyone to buy. We could all track each other’s [...]



Build a better NASA?

Jul 25th, 2006 | By

Seed magazine has an interesting editorial about building a better NASA. The crux of the article is that NASA has gotten off of its prime mission and needs to refocus its resources. The exteremly relevant quote to GIS users is this little part: “The truth is that post-Apollo NASA is overextended to the point that [...]



Forum topic: NASA’s focus

Jul 24th, 2006 | By

I was going to let people find our new forum topic on their own until Adena posted about the change to NASA’s mission statement (via the NY Times). Our forum topic (and associated poll) asks what you think about NASA leaving satellites in the closet while they look to the stars. Head over and let [...]



A VerySpatial Podcast is 1 Year Old

Jul 24th, 2006 | By

Yeah, we made it through our first year! And what a year it’s been. I don’t think we had any idea how the podcast would take off and grow when we recorded that first episode last July. We’ve just been so excited and amazed at the number of people who listen and visit the website, [...]



Contest 4 Winners

Jul 24th, 2006 | By

We have the winners for our anniversary contest. We would like to congratulate all of our winners and wish everyone else luck on our next contest. Keith Miller – Grand Prize winner … iPod Nano Andy Barry … Messenger Bag John McLaughlin… Polo Shirt John Banning … Polo Shirt Brad Neuhauser … Shirt



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 53

Jul 23rd, 2006 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 53 July 23, 2006 Main Topic: Discussion with Peter Batty, VP and CTO of Intergraph. Click to directly download Episode 53 Click for the detailed shownotes



Conference episode feed

Jul 21st, 2006 | By

With the deluge of audio that I expect to come out of the ESRI User Conference I wanted to go ahead and get the new conference feed running. To subscribe to the feed use http://feeds.feedburner.com/avsp-roadshow. I will attempt to post the feed in iTunes in the next few days if you would prefer to subscribe [...]



AVSP Roadshow – Where 2.0 Talent

Jul 21st, 2006 | By

Post-conference interview with Manolis Koutlis of Talent Information Systems S.A. Click here to download the interview



O’Reilly’s 8th Annual OSCON – Open Source Convention

Jul 20th, 2006 | By

I don’t think we’ve mentioned it yet, but O’Reilly’s OSCON 2006 will be going on in Portland, OR starting Monday, July 24th and running through Friday, July 28th. Sessions are running from Wednesday to Friday, and OSGEO has a Birds-of-a-Feather session on Wednesday evening. On Thursday morning, both Gary Lang from Autodesk and the OSGEO [...]