Come and see the joy that is Frank’s disembodied(ish) head as he guard the VerySpatial Booth at SEDAAG ’08. Click here to download Frank’s Dance full size (14 MB) Click here to download Frank’s Dance small size (8 MB)
Sony released around 60 terrabytes of raw log data to a group of researchers for analysis. Lots of different disciplines appear to have mined the data looking for interesting patterns. The data spans four years and 40,000 players. What strikes me as particularly noteworthy is none of them seem to be geographers even though some [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 187 February 15, 2009 Main Topic: Our conversation with Richard Zambuni of Bentley Systems Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
The CrunchGear blog has a post regarding Boston College’s use of Lidar for mapping rivers and streams for fish repopulation. Nothing ground breaking technologically but it was interesting to see a mainstream tech blog talking about what we consider a mainstream technology. Scientists map streams and rivers with lasers, make delightful poached trout .
The GIS Forum is the result of a twitter coversation from a month ago. Today it is a well designed site that has the promise to be an exceptional resource for the geospatial community. The masterminds of behind the site have created a site that combines a traditional forum with a blog roll and wiki. [...]
I have had a chance to crash a few classes this semester both out of town and here on campus and I have used this as an opportunity to rethink what I would want students to walk away from one of my classes with. The plans for the intro to GIS, advanced undergrad GIS, and [...]
This is your last chance to enter our most recent contest. You have until Thursday, 12 February at 23:59 PST to answer the four (4) questions. We are extending the time for you follow VerySpatial on Twitter to Thursday, 12 February to match the question deadline. The Grand Prize is a Flip Mino with 2 [...]
Based on the number of news stories about people intending to go to one place and ending up on a plane to Puerto Rico instead, you would think that Puerto Rico is a plane magnet. According to a recent story, a woman who booked a vacation for Costa Rico accidently ended up in Puerto Rico. [...]
I was just checking my Twitter feed, and I had to check out a tweet from NASA about their interactive page called Eyes on the Earth, which is a cool gateway to information about all of NASA’s Earth Observation missions, like ICEsat, Cloudsat, Landsat 7 and even the new OCO (Orbiting Carbon Observatory) that is [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 186 February 8, 2009 Main Topic: Our conversation with Timothy Hales of GISPathway.com Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
