Archive for November 8th, 2006





Armchair Archaeology using aerial and satellite imagery

Nov 8th, 2006 | By

Another article in National Geographic’s Digital Places series touches on a topic of special interest: geospatial technologies and archaeology. The article discusses how users of Google Earth and other web mapping applications that feature aerial and satellite imagery are incerasingly being used to identify features of archaeological significance. As UNC-Chapel Hill archaeologisty Sccot Madry noted: [...]



Interesting Statement on Elections Mapping

Nov 8th, 2006 | By

As Sue and Jesse noted yesterday, I was conspicuously absent from Very Spatial since I was obsessively consuming election coverage all day yesterday. This morning while reading Salon’s (WARNING: requires paid subscription OR watching of a short ad to view the whole article!) election coverage, I ran across this little tidbit, At the beginning of [...]



Last day for the GAW contest

Nov 8th, 2006 | By

Be sure to take a moment today to take a picture of you and our mascot GEOrge out and about and send the picture to us at contest (at) veryspatial (dot) com. All entries must be in by midnight Pacific Standard Time on November 8, 2006 (today). Details can be found here