More fun from our friends over at Strange Maps. As the post says, Tolkien didn’t create Middle Earth from thin air, it’s based upon real geography. In this case, as sort of stylized version of Europe. Then you put in on the map, it sorta makes sense I guess. Although I would have thought he [...]
I am desperately trying to get through all the email that has piled up while we were on the road, and I had to do a quick post about this site that our reader Elaine alerted me to. It’s called Local Harvest, and has a nice Google Maps mashup feature that lets you see where [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 101 June 24, 2007 Main Topic:Recorded live at the ESRI UC featuring John Auble of TeleAtlas, Elvin and Marika of Maptel and Rick Lawson of ESRI. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Everyone has returned to the east, with Barb and Frank back in WV and Sue and I in Charlottesville, VA for the Geography and Humanities conference that was hosted by AAG, ALCS, and UVA. Overall, a good conference, though I was a bit out of it from Friday’s travel and an early morning to meet [...]
A quick round up of the first day of the EdUC and the EdUC Expo including interviews with DeJong and Pasco Scientific Click here to download the episode
Click through to answer the fifth week’s question for your chance to win. Remember that you can answer once a week for up to 5 entries for the Grand Prize and an entry in each of the weekly drawings. Good luck, and remember, all entries for the Grand Prize must be submitted by July 2, [...]
The afternoon notes were much, much less sparse than the morning notes. Quite honestly, I was too utterly fascinated by the presentations to take good notes. We heard an amazing presentation from a couple of middle school kids that makes much of what I do day to day look silly. More importantly, we heard an [...]
I took pretty detailed notes and thoughts from the morning and afternoon sessions. I’ve edited them up slightly to get rid of typos, but otherwise I left them alone. It’s a sort of stream of consciousness type notes and it weighs in at around 3,000 words. If you’re interested in a detailed look at what [...]
A quick round up of the first day of the EdUC and the EdUC Expo including interviews with GIS ETC and Digital Worlds Click here to download the episode
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 100 June 10, 2007 Main Topic:What Geography means to me. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
