Several articles in the BBC wrap up GIS related posts that were made earlier in this blog. The first is scientists tracking walrus migration using satellite tags. Over the past several months, the BBC has kept an on-line journal and map highlighting the adventures of scientists “in the wild”. The best quote is, “One year, [...]
Apparently Autodesk pushed out an update to Maya PLE for the Mac this weekend which made me think we haven’t really talked too much about how we can make 3D Models for our GIS as we begin moving more closely to a 3D GIS. We tend to use Sketch-Up quite a bit since it is [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 104 July 15, 2007 Main Topic: Interviews with Clint Brown of ESRI and Peter Ndunda of the Greenbelt Movement Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
The BBC has an article about a great find of the frozen remains of a baby Mammoth on the Yamal Peninsula in northern Russia. No viable DNA could be extracted apparently so it won’t be possible to use it for the proposed Pleistocene Park. Head over to the BBC article to check it out. BBC [...]
Information from Drew Stephens, founder of Service At Sea, about the mission, goals, and a few details about Service At Sea. Click to download mp3 version Click to download aac version
In an article yesterday, PC Pro’s (a UK-based tech news site) Darien Graham-Smith comments on the upcoming release of TomTom’s “MapShare” technology (here’s my previous post), and predicts that its impact will be much more far-reaching than the fairly quiet launch announcement. He argues that this will break consumer SatNav systems’ reliance on commercial map [...]
Ok, I promised these like three weeks ago. In my defense, the move took a lot out of me. Of course in my condemnation, I could have posted these before the move! Anyway, leaning on the “better late than never” principle, here are my notes from the sessions I attended. Unfortunately I didn’t get to [...]
The new TomTom GO 520 and 720 models will feature a new functionality called “Map Share” will allow users to update their maps to reflect changes in the road network and use them for route planning and directions immediately, instead of waiting for updates from the company. In addition, the new system will allow users [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 103 July 8, 2007 Main Topic:Interview with Ed Katibah of Microsoft about Katmai, SQL Server 2008 Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
I just read an article at NewScientistTech about a cool software application called 4D Cities, developed by Frank Dellaert and Grant Schindler of Georgia Institute of Technology and Sing Bing Kang of Microsoft Research (His group worked on some of the technologies related to the Photosynth project). The project is being funded by NSF and [...]
