Archive for November 15th, 2007





Nokia To Expand Pedestrian Maps

Nov 15th, 2007 | By Frank

Nokia is taking an interesting twist with their acquisition of Navteq – they want to focus on pedestrians. At a time when people are working hand over fist to get money into in-car navigation systems, Nokia apparently sees a hole in the market. Clearly Nokia has a delivery mechanism at hand for this [...]



Pictures of Earth from Rosetta

Nov 15th, 2007 | By Frank

The European Space Agency’s comet satellite completed it’s second swing around Earth on the 13th of this month. The swing is necessary to gain speed for it’s deep space mission. Along the way, the satellite pointed it’s cameras at the Earth to capture a few snapshots. Most of them center on Antarctica.



Human Systems

Nov 15th, 2007 | By Jesse

The fourth day of our discussion on Geography Standards for education brings to the core of what many of us focus on, the Human Systems. Since this element covers 5 standards we zip right through them, but don’t get us wrong, these are truly core to Geography education in the K-12 classroom, especially the [...]



Give One Laptop Per Child/Get One

Nov 15th, 2007 | By Jesse

There are only a few days left in a great promotion over at the One Laptop Per Child project where for $399 you donate a laptop to a child overseas AND get one for yourself (to keep or give away…your choice). An added bonus is that T-Mobile is offering one year of wireless access [...]



AVSP GAW’07 – Day 04

Nov 15th, 2007 | By Jesse

We continue our spatial media focus with a conversation with Matt Ball of Vector1 Media.
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