Sue and Frank gave e gruff on this week’s episode about the volume of location apps I have (or at least had) on my phone, so i decided to share the current list and ask others what location apps they are running. I have reduced the number of apps substantially. At one time I had [...]
If you haven’t seen Glogster, it’s worth checking out. It is an interactive on-line poster maker, sort of like scrapbooking or collage making on line. If you look under the education section it looks like teachers are using it for school projects, especially the ever important Poster about a country, animal,book, historic event, or other [...]
A new poll has gone up over at VerySpatial.com. Our new question is “Which of the upcoming conference would you most like to attend?” ASPRS AAG ESRI Dev Summit AGILE Where 2.0 Of course we would all like the freedom of travel to make to all of the conferences, but we are making you choose [...]
For those of you in the UK (the company doesn’t do international shipping), modetwentyone has a very cool decorative mirror with the London Underground map laser etched onto its surface. For only £59 (about $83 US), you can have this lovely mirror in your own home, and be able to admire its iconic imagery whenever [...]
Question 3 is up and ready for answering. The question this week is: What new photo-based 3D rendering technology was used to capture Obama’s inauguration ceremony? The third question can be accessed on the front page of the website. If you missed the first question you can still access it at http://veryspatial.com/about/anniversary-contest-jan09/. The contest is [...]
PCPro in the UK is reporting that Google may unveil a new product in its family of mapping tools – Google Ocean! The application would feature topographic layers of the ocean floor, underwater photos, and even points of interest like famous ship wrecks. For those intreguied by the inner space, this should be great! Now [...]
I have recently been looking at Open Journals for various types of content. Open Journals are freely accessible online journals, some are digital versions of traditional journals while others are electronic only published in new ways and under Creative Commons license. Below is a list of some of the Open Journals that are available in [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 184 January 25, 2009 Main Topic: Our conversation with Jim Quanci about the Autodesk Developer Network Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Apartment Therapy has a short but sweet post on using globes for decorating in the home. Looking into globes and decorating further I found the George Glazer Gallery, sellers of antiquarian globes, maps, and prints NYC, which has several videoas and articles. I think the coolest ones are the tellurians and orreries. An interesting site [...]
I have really slacked off on the postings on the blog while I work on my research stuff, but I’ve finally got some pictures of my XNA virtual world application up and running in the VR CAVE at WVU. We had to do some tweaking because XNA is DirectX-based, so it runs on a separate [...]
