Archive for October 2008





Geography of colds

Oct 16th, 2008 | By

aka…where is the kleenex?!? Just to make me feel that I am saving others from my current misery I found The Good Doctor’s Guide to the Cold and Flu on Google Books and to keep it relevant for the blog, found the section on the Geography of colds. Just remember to wash your hands often, [...]



They have you already….

Oct 15th, 2008 | By

I just couldn’t resist another great comic from xkcd….



VerySpatial TV 39 – Spatial Robotic Solutions

Oct 15th, 2008 | By

Robots are cool! There I said it. We spoke with the folks over at Penobscot Bay Media about their Spatial Robotic solution and couldn’t leave without video of their product. Click here to download VSTV Episode 39 full size (26 MB) Click here to download VSTV Episode 39 small size (23 MB)



‘New pathway’ for African exodus

Oct 14th, 2008 | By

You may remember back to our earliest episodes of VerySpatial TV where we each took part in the Genographic project and talked about our results. We may (or may not) have mentioned that the “Out of Africa” theory has been the predominate view for our (humans or Homo sapiens sapiens) distribution around the globe. Apparently [...]



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 169

Oct 12th, 2008 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 169 October 12, 2008 Main Topic: URISA Annual Conference interviews Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes



The Virtual Forbidden City is now live!

Oct 10th, 2008 | By

You may remember our interview with John Tolva (back in Episode 51) who has worked on some amazing projects with IBM, and now has debuted The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time. This project is exactly the kind of things we are working on in our research, and I have been waiting to finally get [...]



Geography Action 2008

Oct 10th, 2008 | By

Folks, it is getting close! We are mere weeks from the 2008 Geography Awareness Week. Beginning November 16th and continuing through the 22nd it will be time to step up the evangelizing. For those of you who are focused on geospatial technologies don’t forget that GIS Day sits in the middle of week. For details [...]



Autodesk University early bird registration

Oct 9th, 2008 | By

For those of you heading to Las Vegas for Autodesk University, but haven’t registered yet, you may want to head over and take care of that by October 10 in order to get the early bird registration fee. We wanted to make it this year, but the budget, she is no more, so maybe next [...]



Make Your Own Electorial Map

Oct 9th, 2008 | By

This is a great tool for those interested in the US Presidential Election – make your own electoral map! The idea is that pundits tells us over and over why they think a certain state might lean a certain way. You’ve undoubtedly got your own theories about how, say, Wisconsin is going to vote. Well [...]



GeoEye-1 image sample from ITT sensor

Oct 8th, 2008 | By

ITT, the company that created the ‘earth imaging payload’ on the recent GeoEye-1 satellite, has posted a sample image from the satellite. While the image isn’t raw, it is still impressive. It is a fusion image created from blending the 0.41m panchromatic image and the 1.65m color image. I remember fusion from just a decade [...]