A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 144 April 20, 2008 Main Topic: Jeremy Bartley of ESRI talks with us about ArcGIS Server’s REST and JavaScript API Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
What better way to learn about conservation efforts to save Africa’s few remaining mountain gorillas than playing a mobile game! Silverbackers, a free game that can be downloaded and played on any Java-capable phone with a mobile web access / data plan, lets you help save mountain gorillas as you play through its 8 levels. [...]
Just coming off a session where we were talking about how user generated content can offer great advantages to local communities it was interesting to read this article which talks about a new wiki map called WikiCrimes that allows users to report crimes and their location in Brazil. Apparently the Brazilian police do not provide [...]
Google has put up an interactive Google Map where you can share Earth events and ideas with people around the world. It’s a fairly basic site, but there are some neat stuff people are planning to do. For instance in Very Spatial’s own home turf, people are planning on doing more composting. What’s going on [...]
As we were making the long, long trek from the Extended Parking area at Pittsburgh International Airport on Saturday, we got a chance to see a real Smart Car just sitting there all cute and cuddly in the parking lot. We couldn’t resist grabbing a quick camera phone shot before heading into the terminal.
I found the CNN news story about a Lonely Planet writer who wrote about Brazil, Colombia, the Caribbean, Venezuela, Chile and South America possibly without ever leaving San Francisco fascinating. Although it harkens back to the 1700 -1900′s when some travel writers wrote completely inaccurate travel guides about countries they had never seen, technology has [...]
For those of you in Boston, Sue and I are coauthors (though I left off our names when I submitted it) with Trevor Harris in the session “The Participatory Geoweb” at 4:20 this afternoon. It is pretty much an extension of our book chapter from last year. Later this week Sue and I both present [...]
The Surui people, who have been so remote in the Brazilian forests that they were only ‘discovered’ in 1969, have turned to the high tech tools of Google Earth to help them protect their existence. Initial contacts with outsiders led them to fight, but bows and arrows proved rather useless compared to modern weapons. Since [...]
Over on the The ArcPad Team Blog they have been kind enough to link to their 2008 ESRI Developer Summit ArcPad Video. The video focuses on “Programming & Design Patterns for ArcPad” and features Craig Greenwald and Elvin Slavik, both of whom we have talked to on past episodes. This video and others from the [...]
