The great and powerful Dave pointed out a couple of oversights in the post for SE 23 (thanks Dave!). I misspelled Aileen Buckley’s name (apologies Aileen) and I completely forgot to post the second half of the interview which was a discussion with Craig Gilgrass about how folks are taking to some of the Geodatabase [...]
In more ways than one….. it’s the Think City! The article is rather lengthy but it’s well worth the read. This car touches on so many sub-disciplines of geography it’s almost scary – environmental issues, globalism, sustainability, mobile computing, and distributed information sharing. Not only is the car itself impressive, the business model is fairly [...]
On Sunday in San Diego, CA, teams of students from 18 countries will meet in the National Geographic World Championship. Each country’s 3-person team consists of winners in national geography bee competitions, and will have to get through a preliminary round that includes a written portion and an outdoor activity, to get to the finals [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 106 July 29, 2007 Main Topic: Interviews with Charlie Crocker of AutoDesk regarding their new mapping products Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
It has been over a year since I added to our posts about professional organizations for Geographers and geospatial professionals, so I wanted to start up again with an organization that helps to support the educational efforts that will yield the next generation of Geographers…the National Council for Geographic Education. The NCGE seeks “to enhance [...]
Each year, people in the Japanese village of Inakadate create works of art in their rice fields by planting different colored varieties of rice within the main green-leafed variety. This year, the fields recreate 2 famous wood block prints from Japanese artist Hokusai, the Great Wave and Red Fuji. They are pretty cool, and will [...]
Interview with Aileen and Charlie of the ESRI Mapping Center blog recorded at the ESRI UC 2007 AND Craig Gilgrass of the Geodatabase Team. Click to download mp3 version Click to download aac version
Although this actually launched a couple of months ago, I wanted to point out the CyArk 3D Heritage Archive, which has a great story behind it and touches on some of the research we do in the area of representing landscapes, especially past landscapes, through geospatial technologies and virtual reconstructions. The CyArk 3D Heritage Archive [...]
Wired magazine is hosting a new geoblog from Bruce Sterling. However, there is a twist in that this is the blog of a fictional character named Harvey Feldspar and it takes place in the year 2017. For those unware of Sterling’s work, he’s a fairly prolific science fiction writer (particularly of short stories). A lot [...]
It isn’t exactly simple even on easy. Indiana gave me fits – it took me six minutes on the lowest level. See how you can do!
