Archive for June 2008
Jun 29th, 2008 |
By Jesse
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 154
June 29, 2008
Main Topic: Ken Schneider of Adapx
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Jun 28th, 2008 |
By Jesse
Click on the image to the see a larger version…no really, if you like Star Wars even just a little you must see this life size statue version of Princess Leia. But this isn’t your standard bikini clad Leia, it is the re-envisioned for the Clone Wars cartoons Leia. She is in her [...]
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Jun 27th, 2008 |
By Jesse
The latest mass email from ESRI regarding the International User Conference had a small blurb on a new Remote Sensing GIS Summit that has been added to the event on Sunday August 3 from 8:30 to 5:30. The preliminary agenda includes keynote and case study presentations as well as the expected technical presentations. [...]
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Jun 27th, 2008 |
By Frank
Ubisoft, maker of… well… LOTS of video games, is working on Far Cry 2. For those not in the video game know, Far Cry has pushed the limits of PC gaming hardware in the last year. Far Cry 2 looks to raise the bar even higher. The game takes place in Africa [...]
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Jun 26th, 2008 |
By Sue
The band Nine Inch Nails has posted a cool new visualization of the 1,400,000 downloads of their latest album, The Slip, that they have released as a KML file. The data represents individual downloads directly from their site, and it’s is a cool way of seeing where those Nine Inch Nails fans really are. I’d [...]
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Jun 24th, 2008 |
By Jesse
I probably owe Glenn a buck for covering a Nokia topic (I’ll get it to you in San Diego) but I am giddy about some of the steps Nokia has taken in the OS, services and data areas. The data, of course, is their acquisition of Navteq which is awaiting the final go ahead from [...]
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Jun 24th, 2008 |
By Barb
When looking for more information on the world’s biggest cruise ship, I found a great blog on GIS CAD Interoperability aptly called “GIS CAD Interoperability” GIS and CAD are some of the tools used to design cruise ships which are essentially floating cities. When you watch a video of the world’s biggest cruise ship, Oasis [...]
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Jun 23rd, 2008 |
By Sue
The guys from CASA at UCL emailed us a few weeks ago about MapTube, another one of their great projects. I’ve wanted to post about it since then, but let some other things push it out of my mind temporarily. For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, MapTube is a site where you [...]
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Jun 22nd, 2008 |
By Sue
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 153
June 22, 2008
Main Topic: Is my GIS your GIS?
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Jun 20th, 2008 |
By Sue
Boston.com has posted a collection of images and animations of Mars, both from orbiting reconnaissance imagers and from landers. They include true color mosaics taken from high-altitude and from the surface, a really neat image of sunset on Mars in color, and my favorite, a time-lapse animation of dust devils passing by the NASA [...]
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