Next week’s GIS for Oil and Gas Conference 2008 has been canceled in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. Organizers are looking into the best way to repurpose the content from the conference and will be providing updates via email and I am sure on the web site as well.
Our reader Ed always sends me links to cool sites, and walkscore is no exception. It’s a Google Maps mashup site that calculates the walkability (using a 0-100 scoring system) of a neighborhood, based on how many services are available within a walkable distance. Walkscore does not factor in the aesthetic appeal of a neighborhood, [...]
Just a quick reminder that the abstract submission deadline for the 2009 ASPRS conference are due by Close of Business Monday, Sept 15 (today). The conference will be held in Boston on 9-13 March. ASPRS 2009 Baltimore
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 165 September 14, 2008 Main Topic: Interview with Dylan Lorimer and J.L. Needham, of Google Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
We are finishing up a paper on the use of New Media in Geography education, but I wanted to get an idea of how others are taking advantage of the pieces of the puzzle to give it a broader perspective. If you are an educator, whether academic, professional, or informal, I would greatly appreciate it [...]
We caught up with Accela at ESRI User Conference to talk about their Government Software solutions. Click here to download the episode in MP3 format
If you have any mild interest in genealogy, then check out this name checker application. You enter in your surname and it reports back to you the places in the world where your last name is most popular. Mine showed some surprising results – for a French last name, there aren’t any listed in any [...]
I was catching up on the day’s news, and saw this cool post at GOOD Magazine’s site called Wanderlust, which features an interactive map and multimedia about great journeys that have been undertaken throughout history, from real-life journeys like Magellan’s trip around the world to fictional adventures like Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 [...]
We recently spoke with Bob Bray about Autodesk’s contribution of CS Map to the open source community. Click to download mp3 version Click to download aac version
Since Sue is still enamored with the LHC rap video (I guess it is time for us to introduce her to nerdcore) I thought I would just mention that the Large Hadron Collider had its first successful run today, and no, the world did not come to an end via blackhole or other atom smashing [...]
