A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 174 November 16, 2008 Main Topic: Conversation with Matt Rosenberg of Geography.About.com Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Scientists have figured out how to predict cholera outbreaks by looking at sea life. The idea pioneered at the University of Maryland is a rise in sea temperatures lead to the production of Phytoplankton, which are the root cause of cholera. As these phytoplankton get into the water supply, cholera pathogens are released and can [...]
We have been busy on the phones getting together a great group of interviews to share with you over the course of Geography Awareness Week (November 16-22). We chose to go with a single theme, Geography Careers and Training, throughout our interviews this year. So far we have spoken to Matt Rosenberg from Geography @ [...]
Sorry to link to XKCD so much, but there isn’t many other geography related comics out there ==
The use of cartograms as representational tools for the US election results got a lot of attention last week, with links to a number of sites such as Mark Newman’s . Cartograms are powerful cartographic visualizations, but are not necessarily easy to produce. I remember having to run a very tempermental ArcView script to generate [...]
I was one of those geeky people who has been following the Mars Phoenix lander on Twitter, and as the lonely little lander posted gloomy predictions of its impending demise, I felt a little sad. Then, yesterday, its final farewell message – 01010100 01110010 01101001 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101000 <3 – came through on my [...]
As many of you know VerySpatial has a presence on a few social networking sites, but it has been a while since we mentioned them on the blog, and we have probably added a few feeds to boot. Here are the details: A VerySpatial Forum – we are reviving the forums that were overwhelmed in [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 173 November 9, 2008 Main Topic: Conversations with John Tolva of IBM and Scott Branting of CAMEL Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
If you are looking for the fairly out of date list of desktop GIS options, apologies. We are updating the list and moving it back to the main VerySpatial site (used to be on a subdomain). The updated list should be up by the end of 2008, though a draft will be up in early [...]
While looking through the new apps feed for the iPhone this morning I came across the OSMTrack app. OSMTrack is an application that allows you to use the iPhone 3G’s GPS to capture tracks and waypoints and upload them directly from the iPhone to the OpenStreetMap servers. Other than heading over and registering for an [...]
