Just in time for the summer conference season and long flights, the iTunes 7.2 update has opened iTunes U, their educational portal for audio and video lectures, to the world at large. This portal includes quite a few topics that I think would be of interest to our listeners and readers including: Geography of World [...]
Inspired by an old Numb3rs episode on schools and rfid, I started to see what GIS related technologies are being used in schools. According to the BBC, a U.K. based company, Edexcel, has created technology to rfid tag exam papers. U.S. company, aptly named Graffiti Tracker inc. has created technology to track, analyze, and reduce [...]
Trulia Hindsight is an interesting mashup that shows the grow of populations in the US over time. Their intent is to document the creation of every house in the US. Using this data and Virual Earth, they have created animations that place dots on the map when houses were built in any particular area. The [...]
Amidst all the Where 2.0 news, there is another conference going on in Carlsbad, California called “D:All Things Digital” where Microsoft had an announcement about the debut of Microsoft Surface, which is an outcome of their Project Milan to develop the idea of surface computing, basically user interfaces that are completely touch-driven. The project was [...]
A discussion with Mladen Stojic, Director of Visualization and Enterprise Products of Leica Geosystems about the recently announced Titan and Titan Network. Click to download mp3 version Click to download aac version
Sean Gorman of FortiusOne talks about the recently announced GeoCommons Beta available at GeoCommons.com. Click here to download Special Episode 19 in MP3 Click here to download Special Episode 19 in AAC
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I am sitting here catching up on my geography news, and practicing typing on my new OQO Model 02 (more on that later), when I came across an article about “food mapping,” tracing the origins of foods such as meat, cheese, wine, produce, etc. The idea is to let you know that if you’re paying [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 97 May 27, 2007 Main Topic:Getting into programming and developing – Part 1 Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Yet another in the recent spate of articles about TeleAtlas and their vehicles. This time around the article focuses on a couple that is driving one of the trucks in Europe and includes a short video. Like they say, ‘you can’t buy this kind of publicity’ BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Keeping an eye on [...]
