GITA is counting down the 12 weeks to their Annual Conference with 12 weekly prize giveaways, with the last giveaway being a grand prize for a lucky conference attendee. To enter, just visit the GITA website, and fill out a short form There’s no list of the prizes that I could find, but they are [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 74 December 17, 2006 Main Topic: Answering listener questions Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
About a year ago I had a brief Sudoku obsession…don’t worry I was able to get it under control…but I may slip this month with Download Squad’s recent highlighted game Christmas Sudoku from Dracosoft. If you are traveling and need a new time waster for your Mac, check it out. 12 Days of holiday downloads, [...]
Due to a busy week on campus, we didn’t get a chance to finish our ‘person on the street’ interviews for Episode 5, but we will save the questions for the beginning of the new year. We will have our Winter Solstice and the four seasons (the new episode 5) out by next Thursday, and [...]
We have been consumed the last couple of days with a couple of web mapping apps we are trying to get finished, but I saw this news article and had to mention that a partnership between Google Earth, NASA, the Pennsylvania Tourism Office and the National Civil War Museum have received a $285,000 grant to [...]
Episode 32 of MacBreak gives a nice video overview of how to use Google Sketchup in conjunction with Google Earth. While they demo it on a Mac, it works the same on Windows. It is a great activity to for fun and work. Keep an eye on VSTV in January or February to see an [...]
For those of you who are in to comics and who will be attending the AAG in San Francisco, keep in mind that the Alternative Press Expo, one of the siblings to the San Diego Comic-Con, will be taking place in San Fran on April 21 and 22, at the end of the AAG conference. [...]
The only GIS that I am aware of that is coming out of Spain, gvSIG, sent out a press release today announcing that they made it to a stable version 1.0. This is an open source project that is available for Windows, Linux and Mac (so I will be including it in part 2 or [...]
For nearly 800 years, the residents of the small mountain town of Viganella in Italy have had to spend their winters without sunlight, due to the height of the surrounding mountains and the lower sun angle. Now, finally, technology is coming to the rescue in the form of a giant mirror, which was installed on [...]
Feeling a little strapped for cash this holiday season, fear not there are still ways to feel guilty about what you have. The global rich list website puts your income in perspective by giving your ranking in the global economy based on the annual income figure you provide. For instance if you are just over [...]
