yes, that’s right, you only have until next wednesday, January 31st, to enter our latest contest – “Show Us Your Heritage!” We’ve promoted this contest more on the podcast than the blog, so I’ll give you a quick rundown….Just send us a photo of something that, for you, represents your heritage in some way. For [...]
Researchers have discovered that during the last ice age, the prevailing winds blew east to west, not west to east pattern we see today. Climate changes made everything shift thousands of years ago. It’s an interesting discovery and apparently helps explain some other odd findings, like the Pacific Northwest used to be much drier according [...]
We have a new logo design, but we need it to have a professional touch to make it what it could be. If you know a freelance artist especially one with a cartoonish flair, please point them to us.
I ran across a press release today for TDC Group’s Freeance Mobile, a suite of web mapping and database applications that promises to bring GIS to your BlackBerry. Freeance Mobile consists of 3 BlackBerry applications: MapViewer, GPS Collector, and Search, that combine with database capabilities to allow users to perform GIS tasks in the field. [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 79 January 21, 2007 Main Topic: 2007 Conferences on the horizon Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Some Sunday fun while I am editing the audio. I came across the Virtual Chumby which isn’t going to hold me over to the physical product in the spring quarter, but it will amuse me over the next couple of weeks. Still no spatial (Loki) widget for the Chumby yet, I haven’t checked the forums [...]
I came across GeoToys (at geotoystore.com through a Google ad (yeah, sometimes I actually look at them). They seem to focus on map based puzzles for kids, but they also carry a few other games and toys…in fact Postcards from America piqued my interest. And who wouldn’t want to hug the planet. Overall, an interesting [...]
The EPA is making a bold and rather inspiring move in making an effort to post their data online for use in Mashups and online Mapping applications. As of Wednesday, they have posted a few hundred of the Superfund sites they have maintained for the last 25 years or so. The article indicates they plan [...]
Here’s a pretty cool mashup for those gamers out there. For those unaware of the joys of running around a massive virtual world and smacking it’s denizens with a sharp pointy thing, Oblivion is a truly jaw dropping virtual (non-online) fantasy gaming world of massive proportions. You can easily loose days in that world, if [...]
PacketGarden is a cool application (still in beta) that grows your own virtual world based on your internet activity. PacketGarden uses information about your internet use to generate this private world by taking note of the servers you visit and their geographic location, and how you interact with these sites. For example, uploads generate hills [...]
