Just a quick reminder that I am conducting a survey to support a paper on New Media in Education that I am finishing up. The survey is intended for anyone who involved in education/training at any level. It is a short survey that should only take 2-4 minutes of your day and may add to [...]
The RGS-IBG along with Wiley-Blackwell have released Publishing in Geography: A Guide for New Researchers. The 64 page guide is available for free both through an online viewer and a handy downloadable PDF version. The publisher suggests that their “aim was to create an accessible guide to showcase the best ways to publish, and to [...]
If you have ever run into us at a conference, you know that at least Frank and I are not warm weather folks. On that note I want to welcome fall (in the northern hemisphere) and the cooler temperatures that it promises, once again. Along with fall we move from industry geospatial conference season back [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 166 September 21, 2008 Main Topic: Interview with TeleAtlas Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Accodinng to this article in MSNBC news, the book Twilight has created booming tourism in the town where the novel is set… where the author never visited when she wrote the first book, which has now gained Harry Potter status. The town set out to match places in the book with places in the town. [...]
You may remember that I was pretty excited about Earthscape Basic for the iPhone and iPod Touch when it came out (for $9.99). While the regular price has dropped to $5 you can get this fun little app from for free.
Katharine over at ChannelFlip games does a great job of giving a run down of Location-based Gaming for the general gaming public. She talks about the history of LBG’s (apologies if I just made that up) and location technologies, as well as a few examples of LBG’s. I have to say this was a great [...]
A general discussion of First American‘s use of geospatial technologies to support their real estate products with a focus on their parcel products. Click here to download the episode in MP3 format
A while back I posted about the Chemical Brothers using Google Earth to create a global multimedia project by inviting fans to submit videos to help promote the release of their new album Brotherhood. Centered around the theme of Midnight Madness, a song on the record, the finished project is now available to view as [...]
I had a couple of minutes to talk to Bill Dollins at the ESRI UC about Zekiah Technologies and the joys of PostGRE for GIS. Click here to download the episode in MP3 format
