So we Sue and I are in San Francisco attending the AAG. I have already hit a session but we got in during the afternoon so we missed some of the earlier sessions. We are staying at the Parc 55 right across the street from the Hilton, but I hadn’t paid attention to where the [...]
For those who may not have heard, Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg Virginia has suffered a great tragedy on its campus. Thirty-two people were shot and killed yesterday by what now looks to be a single gunman. I grew up roughly an hour drive from that campus and I spent a lot of time there [...]
As we mentioned on the podcast this week, we are trying something new by teaming up with small geospatial businesses to give them a little exposure and to provide you, our great audience, with a discount on products we think are interesting. This month we are working with GeoToys, a great site for Geography based [...]
My recent return to the Mac after about a decade of using only Windows, thanks to work, was based on several reasons from quality of hardware (and the switch to intel) to moving back to an interface I am happy with. One of those reasons in the middle was the great set of specific tools [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 91 April 15, 2007 Main Topic: Interview with Tom Myers of MapInfo Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
The chumby, as I have mentioned before, is a great little device that will be the size of an alarm clock, have wifi, run Flash apps, and is infinitely hackable in terms of Flash apps, hardware and even its appearance (starts out as a beanbag with a screen). The site has recently been updated and [...]
We usually think about tracking objects, more than we do about how they are actually tagged. This BBC picture documentary shows the process scientists went through to tag walruses for observation. The best quote is, “The tags were deployed with three instruments: a crossbow, a CO2-powered gun, and a harpoon that the skipper had made.” [...]
Part 2 of GIS on the Mac. This time we take a quick look at uDig. Click here to download VSTV Episode 14
I know I have been quiet on the blogging front this week, as I am trying to cram in catching up on grading work, lecturing, and preparing presentation for the big AAG conference next week in San Francisco, but I wanted to put up a quick note that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released [...]
It seems that we are going to stick with the Wednesday night time slot for the meet-up and take advantage of the location to evangelize a little. The meet-up will start at the Geospatial Tech Event at 7:00PM on Wednesday in Yosemite B at a table where we will have a “what is” poster. Hopefully [...]
