Archive for July 2006
Jul 18th, 2006 |
By Jesse
Well we have been talking about getting the forums up and running for some time now. We finally decided that it is better to get it out there and let folks let us know what it needs. Head over to forum.veryspatial.com and register and start talking today. Expect issues for a little while as we [...]
Posted in avsp, general |
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Jul 18th, 2006 |
By Sue
National Geographic has launched National Geographic World Music, a new music store that lets users explore and purchase world music. The site includes content from the National Geographic Channel and a map interface for browsing through the offerings of music from different regions of the globe. So, if you want to know what they’re listening [...]
Posted in general, Human Geography |
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Jul 18th, 2006 |
By Jesse
There are only a few hours left to get the answers to the five questions and enter our anniversary contest. All entries must be emailed by 12:00PM PST (GMT -8) on July 18, 2006 to contest at veryspatial dot com.
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Jul 17th, 2006 |
By Jesse
As we have already mentioned Suzanne Rousie of SUNY Buffalo took home the gold in this years Skills USA Geospatial Technology Challenge, but what we haven’t been able to share with you was that Kevin Williams of the University of Arkansas took home the silver. This year there were only two medals given out, so [...]
Posted in general, GeographyAwareness |
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Jul 17th, 2006 |
By Jesse
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 52 July 16, 2006 Main Topic: Talk amongst yourselves. Click to directly download Episode 52 Click for the detailed shownotes
Posted in general, Podcast, Show Notes |
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Jul 17th, 2006 |
By Sue
Just checked out CNN and the space shuttle Discovery landed safely at Kennedy Space Center in Florida a little while ago. I’m still a fan of the shuttle program, so it’s nice to see it hopefully back on track.
Posted in general, space (not spatial) |
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Jul 16th, 2006 |
By Jesse
Episode 52 will be up in the next few hours and the last Where 2.0 interview (really a post interview that we did last Firday) with Talent, makers of Cruiser, will be up mid-week due to the need to get a grant proposal out the door. Sorry about the delay.
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Jul 15th, 2006 |
By Sue
You’ve probably never thought much about it, but left turns cost you more in fuel consumption as you idle waiting for a light to change or traffic to go by, whereas right turns usually only require waiting for a break in traffic to turn into the traffic lane. For those of you who drive on [...]
Posted in general, GIS_Software |
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Jul 14th, 2006 |
By Sue
What is possibly the world’s largest photograph was created on Wednesday at the former El Toro US Marine Base in California. The non-profit Legacy Project used a hangar at the base to create the world’s largest camera obscura by opening a tiny hole in the hangar wall and letting in a beam of light to [...]
Posted in General, general |
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Jul 13th, 2006 |
By Jesse
Even though Verizon said it wouldn’t be up for another week, when I plugged in my modem the connection was live and stable. We should be through the majority of moving this weekend, so hopefully we will be back to blogging form next week. Until then we have two great episodes coming up, including a [...]
Posted in avsp, General, general |
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