Hil-ar-ious
Jun 18th, 2007 | By JesseFlight of the Conchords is sooooo fricking funny.
Archive for June 2007
ESRI GIS Education Community
Jun 17th, 2007 | By JesseWhile we weren’t there for the announcement today, we have had a few minutes to leaf through the announced ESRI GIS Education Community site that: is a living environment for the exchange of ideas and experiences, curriculum, software, and data among GIS educators around the globe Most of the content has existed in different places [...]
Travel to San Diego
Jun 16th, 2007 | By JesseSue and I made it to San Diego with only minor hiccups, while Frank and Barb, who left later in the day, are stuck in Newark over night since they missed their connection thanks to a delayed flight. This is a good reason to look into the Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights that is being [...]
VSTV Short – ArcGIS Explorer on the OQO
Jun 15th, 2007 | By JesseTo tie in with Sue’s post turn review here is a video of the OQO in action in the wild. Click here to download the video
Virtual Globes go UltraMobile
Jun 15th, 2007 | By SueI finally got tired of lugging my Thinkpad around, and decided that I needed to somehow get an even smaller, lighter portable device, yet with full laptop capabilities. So, I managed to spend all my money on an OQO Model 02, which is the ultimate in geeky tech. It is part of a new family [...]
Now that’s advertising…
Jun 15th, 2007 | By BarbThe UK Daily Mail is reporting on an advertisement that can only be seen from the air by passengers flying at Gatwick airport. It brings up many spatial rights and use issues since the town is fining the company that created it while they maintain, “We are operating quite within our rights. We produce adverts [...]
Trying out Google Calendar
Jun 15th, 2007 | By JesseI have been very happy with WebCalendar which we have used for calendar.veryspatial.com for the duration, but since I am playing around with Google Calendar I thought I would drop it in the iframe for a while. If you are subscribed to the VerySpatial Calendar using iCal don’t worry, so is Google Calendar, I am [...]
Mapping farms and teaching students
Jun 14th, 2007 | By SueDover High School in Delaware Pennsylvania has a really cool program going that not only introduces students to GIS, but also provides a real mapping service to the local community. Agriculture teacher Ron Weaner and tech education teacher Charles Benton have put together a pilot project in conjunction with Adventures in Technology where students in [...]
BBC collaborating on new Photosynth collections
Jun 14th, 2007 | By SueIn conjunction with their new series “How We Built Britain”, the BBC is collaborating with Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth team on a new set of collections called Your Britain in Pictures (Jesse tells me that this was mentioned briefly during the virtual globes session at ISDE5 last Friday) that will feature some of Britain’s most [...]
Measuring Fine Scale Behavior
Jun 14th, 2007 | By SueUniversity College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis has done a lot of great work in understanding spatial behavior, and one of their current projects, CAPABLE (Children’s Activities, Perception and Behaviour in the Local Environment) focuses on children’s activities patterns across space and time, looking at things like patterns of travel between home and school [...]
