Archive for January 2009
Jan 14th, 2009 |
By Jesse
At AU ’08 Sue sat down with Peter Costanzo, Director of Sales, Facilities Management at Avatech Solutions about their facilities and BIM solutions. Click to download mp3 version Click to download aac version
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Jan 13th, 2009 |
By Jesse
The contest is open to anyone however only US residents are eligible for the Grand Prize. Correctly answering each week’s question will give you an entry in the contest (1 per week) and following http://twitter.com/veryspatial before Feb 11 will give you an additional three (3) entries. Good Luck and be sure to come back next [...]
Posted in avsp, Contest, general |
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Jan 11th, 2009 |
By Sue
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 182 January 11, 2009 Main Topic: Interview with Doug Eberhard of Autodesk Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
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Jan 10th, 2009 |
By Jesse
We recorded this week’s episode before seeing the press release Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO) Urges Congress to Establish Geospatial Subcommittee in House and Senate. The letter is available from the URISA/COGO site (pdf). It points out existing government led spatial organizations, talks about the use of geospatial technologies by various government offices and suggests [...]
Posted in general, GeographyAwareness, GIS_Software |
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Jan 9th, 2009 |
By Jesse
Friday brings us a few more location Tech announcements from CES. Mio launches four new Moov navigators at CES – via Engadget TomTom intros GO 740 LIVE connected GPS – via Engadget Hands On: Ford Sync’s New Voice-Controlled Turn-By-Turn Directions [Ces 2009] – via Gizmodo
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Jan 8th, 2009 |
By Jesse
Another day, another bunch of location tech announcements. Garmin rolls out nuvi 865T, ditches 8×0 series – via Engadget Sony shows off GPS packing 1080p camcorders – via Engadget SPOT Assist brings GPS-based roadside assistance to Messenger – via Engadget Pharos Traveller 137 hands-on – via Engadget Navigon keeps PNDs fresh with downloadable data packs [...]
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Jan 7th, 2009 |
By Jesse
It is early January and the (last) MacWorld keynote is over, so it is time to see what is coming out of CES in Las Vegas. Here is the roundup of cool new toy announcements up ’til, and including, Wednesday: Garmin’s new nüvi 885T, z?mo 660 and G5 GPS units for drivers, bikers and golfers [...]
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Jan 7th, 2009 |
By Frank
Hot Hardware (a most excellent computer/techie site, by the way) is reporting an interesting proposition by the Governor of Oregon. Apparently Oregon is having a bit of financial difficulty, what with all the people trying to save on gas and the associated decline in gas tax revenues. Governor Kulongoski’s proposal is fairly simple – let’s [...]
Posted in Gadgets, general, Human Geography |
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Jan 6th, 2009 |
By Jesse
As you are hearing everywhere today (glad I could add to the noise ) Apple, Inc has announced some interesting location features to their iLife ’09 applications. iPhoto adds geotag support (along with direct connection to flickr and Facebook) which can be used to create maps (in iPhoto) of picture locations and to create maps [...]
Posted in general, GIS_Software, LBS |
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Jan 5th, 2009 |
By Sue
We recently got an email from Kelly at Learn-gasm about the recent article from Alisa Miller on their choices for 100 Best Blogs for Earth Science Scholars, and we made the list! The 100 blogs on the list cover a wide range of content, from Geology, Meteorology, and Climate Science to Geography. My favorites are [...]
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