RapidoMap is a great, free file geotagging app for Mac OS X from app4mac.com. Formerly known as Magrathea, the app has had some interface updates and is just plain fun to use. Click here to download VSTV Episode 26 (34 MB)
The Messenger spacecraft is reporting back the first high resolution images of Mercury taken since the ’70′s. They’re over 3x better than anything we had before. The images are pretty fascinating!
So apparently, my lack of voraciousness as a Mac fanboy made me almost miss the fact that Apple is working with Skyhook Wireless to capture location on the iPhone…oh and that Google company too. This is great. And definitely a step-up for the technology. Since I am a iPod Touch user, not an iPhone, hopefully [...]
Our good friend and GIS Day Mate (GDM for short) Rick Lawson sent me a note about the 2008 ArcGIS Server Code Challenge. If you’re the programming sort and have a hankerin’ for an extra $25,000 bucks, you might want to enter. Entries have to use ArcServer 9.2 and must be uploaded to the ArcScripts [...]
If you are going to be chairing a session or event at this years Association of American Geographers conference in Boston and would like a little early advertising contact us. We would like to do a few short (5 min) podcasts to highlight some of the activities that will be going on this year. If [...]
Ok, so it was a bad joke. Apparently, the Earth is just barely big enough to support life. The National Geographic is reporting this new research that says the Earth is barely big enough for plate tectonics, which are critical to CO2 formation and maintenance, which in turn is critical for life. It’s an interesting [...]
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I am trying to tease out a memory and am looking for help. Does anyone know if there were any texts or articles from the ’60s or ’70s that used the term ‘neogeography’ to refer to Spatial Science? In archaeology, positivism was referred to commonly as New Archaeology and I know that the term New [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 130 January 13, 2008 Main Topic: Interview with Chris Hanson of 3d Nature – Part 2 Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Baghdad got its first snow in 100 years on Friday! The snow didn’t accumulate much, so the Baghdad government won’t have to add “snow plows” to its load of materials, but it was a once in a lifetime site. People of all ages remarked they had never seen snow, nor had ever heard of anyone [...]
