A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 148 May 18, 2008 Main Topic:Where 2.0 Announcements and Interview with Darren Vengroff of Pelago about Whrrl Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Today is graduation here at WVU and around the country, though ceremonies are going at many schools throughout the month. With graduation comes a wealth of new faces in the geospatial industry and Geography related fields, not just graduates, but interns working their way toward graduation as well. To all of you I wish good [...]
We are planning to create a SWAG (stuff we all get) location cache at a conference we attend in the near future, you can hear our epiphany about SWAG geocaches in this week’s (Epi 148) events corner. The point is to give folks the chance to have some fun in addition to getting free stuff. [...]
Sue and I talk about Wednesday at Where 2.0 2008. Click here to download the episode in MP3 format
Episode 149 is going to be our next Questions Episode. We have a few great questions already, but we want to make it a question blow out/bonanza. If you have a question that you would like us to answer please send it to questions at veryspatial dot com by Thursday May 22 or, even better, [...]
Geography is just as important in virtual worlds as it is in the real world. While the users of these technologies (e.g. Second Life or World of Worldcraft) may inhabit distinctly different locations IRL (in real life) they interact with a distinct landscape and within very real communities when they are online in virtual worlds. [...]
Here’s an interesting little story – California is going to build a high speed, bullet style train that will travel between San Fran and San Diego. The train is expected to take upwards of $40 billion to build, but you’ll be able to make a 600 mile trip in a tad under 4 hours for [...]
Sue and I talk about what has been going on at Where 2.0 2008 on Monday and Tuesday. Click here to download the episode in MP3 format
So the morning keynote and speakers are done now, and while there were a couple of announcements, like Google’s GeoSearch API going live, and demos of EveryBlock and FortiusOne’s Finder!, the surprise of the morning was Jack Dangermond joining Google’s John Hanke onstage to talk about GIS coming to the Geoweb. The upcoming release of [...]
We have talked to the folks at Schmap a couple of times and I was pretty interested in what they do on the web and the desktop, but their iPhone/iPod Touch interface wins hands down between the three interfaces for me. They are rolling it out today, but we had a chance to play with [...]
