Archive for October 2007
Oct 24th, 2007 |
By Jesse
Apparently there was an issue with both the AAC and MP3 feeds for this weeks podcast which kept it from being downloaded. I have fixed the issue and the episode should be available to your podcatcher very soon. Thanks to Andrew for letting me know about the issue!
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Oct 23rd, 2007 |
By Jesse
Some of you may recall me blogging about Magrathea over the summer, a nice little georeferencing tool for your desktop documents on Mac which used actual Lat/Long as opposed to image coordinates. Apparently over the summer the software was picked up by app4mac and has been renamed RapidoMap. It remains freeware and but other than [...]
Posted in general, Software |
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Oct 22nd, 2007 |
By Sue
It never rains but it pours, so while I wait for ArcMap to finish export yet another map, I wanted to let you fellow grad students out there know about the 2008-2009 Yahoo! PhD Student Fellowships. They are looking for people in a number of areas of research related to developing/programming, but check out the [...]
Posted in Education, general |
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Oct 21st, 2007 |
By Jesse
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 118 October 21, 2007 Main Topic: Geographic Exploration Systems Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
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Oct 20th, 2007 |
By Jesse
Ed mentioned Pixelmator a while back as a great new Mac-only image editor. It offers most of the tools that the normal Photoshop user uses. But the impressive thing isn’t Pixelmator itself, it’s the fact that it is built using technology that is built into the OS, Core Image, so that many of the tools [...]
Posted in general, GIS_Software, Software |
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Oct 18th, 2007 |
By Jesse
Happy Median is a different sort of site that was featured on the last Tekzilla. The upshot of the site is that you can put in between 2-4 addresses and the site will find the halfway point between the addresses. The median of my last three zip codes is just outside of Roanoke, VA. You [...]
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Oct 17th, 2007 |
By Jesse
The New Media panel for the AAG in Boston (April 08) is turning out nicely and we are going with an education theme. I would like to get one more person on the panel so that I can just moderate (yup, I am that lazy) so if you are going to be at the AAG [...]
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Oct 17th, 2007 |
By Jesse
This audio is from the the showroom floor at the 2007 ESRI User Conference. We speak to folks from Virtual Earth, 3n, UNIGIS, IMTA. Click here to download the episode in MP3 format
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Oct 16th, 2007 |
By Jesse
Week 3′s contest question. This week we actually getting VSTV into the question. Click through to the answer the question. If you haven’t answered the question from weeks 1 or 2 you have until Nov 7 to go back and answer it.
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Oct 15th, 2007 |
By Jesse
A story to round out Blog Action Day about current research along the Northwest Passage that will likely soon have new environmental finds. The BBC has had a press crew on the vessel (the Amundsen) that has been passing through the Northwest Passage and they have been showing some of the video on BBC World [...]
Posted in general, Physical Geography |
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