Archive for May 2008





AVSP Roadshow – MapQuest Where 2.0 ’08

May 24th, 2008 | By

A quick talk about MapQuest’s developer APIs. Click here to download the episode in MP3 format



AVSP Roadshow – Nokia Where 2.0 ’08

May 23rd, 2008 | By

A conversation with Nokia about location and their location products for mobile and web. Click here to download the episode in MP3 format



Rock Port, Missouri – 100% Wind Powered!

May 23rd, 2008 | By

If you’ve been following the blog for awhile now, you’ll know that I’m all over alternative energy sources. I’d love to have a wind turbine for my house. Well the good people of Rock Port, Missouri have taken up the wind power challenge and gone 100% wind energy! The press release says they use 13 [...]



In London or NYC? Check out the Telectroscope!

May 22nd, 2008 | By

Back in the Victorian era, an English engineer named Alexander Stanhope St George got the idea to create a device that would allow people to see through a very long tunnel (say, across the Atlantic Ocean), which he called the “Telectroscope.” So, well this story is actually not true, but there was an 1898 article [...]



A VerySpatial Podcast – Special Episode 30

May 22nd, 2008 | By

Abe, Bill, and Paolo of Obtuse Software tell us about zigGIS 2.0 and using PostGRE/PostGIS in a GIS workflow. Click to download mp3 version Click to download aac version



Geohashing… how it’s done

May 21st, 2008 | By

Ok, so this is kinda obscure AND it’s like the fourth time we’ve linked to XKCD…. but it’s entirely appropriate! Not to mention darn funny!



A VerySpatial Podcast – Special Episode 29

May 21st, 2008 | By

While at Where 2.0 we sat down with Andrew Turner and Mikel Maron of Mapufacture and Steve Coast of CloudMade to talk about their workshop and their individual efforts. Click to download mp3 version Click to download aac version



Interoperability in Virtual Worlds

May 21st, 2008 | By

For anyone like me who is trying to keep up with what’s going on in the virtual world arena, you know what a pain it is to go to Second Life, Kaneva, HelloKittyOnline, etc., register, create a profile and avatar, enter the virtual world, try to get the feel for navigation, interact with other people, [...]



AVSP Roadshow – Where 2008, EveryScape

May 20th, 2008 | By

In this episode we talk to EveryScape.com about their vision of a pervasive experience of the exterior and interior of urban landscapes. Click here to download the episode in MP3 format



Apparently NOT going to THATcamp

May 19th, 2008 | By

THATcamp appears to be less of an unconference than I thought. Apologies if we got anyone excited to attend as our announcement was too late. If you wanted to attend you had to submit a session idea by the middle of March and there is only limited space at the facility. Keep this in mind [...]