A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 192
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 192
March 22, 2009
Main Topic: How is technology pushing Geography forward with Indy Hurt
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Music
News
- Vancouver joins Autodesk’s Digital Cities initiative
- 52 Indiana Counties…one map
- ArcPad 8 and Victorian Bushfires
- Whrrl 2.0 Spatial storytelling
- Planet Geospatial
- This week we talk with Indy Hurt about how technology in general can continue to push Geography forward
- GIS for Dummies by Michael DeMers from Willey Press
Web Corner
Main topic
Tip of the Week
Events
- NCGE: 23-27 September, San Juan
- Pacifica Coast Geographers: Sept 30-3 Oct, San Diego
- National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) 2009 – October 4-8, Cleveland, OH
- Applied Geography: 28-30 October, Baton Rouge…Abstracts by May 18
This week A Very Spatial Podcast is sponsored by ESRI.
The 2009 ESRI Homeland Security GIS Summit will take place July 11-14 in San Diego, California in conjunction with the ESRI International User Conference. As the only geospatial conference dedicated to homeland security, the event is a must for commanders, first responders, GIS specialists, and anyone else interested in geospatial technology for mission-critical decisions. The deadline to register is May 22. Register online at www.esri.com/hssummit.
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Who is Indy Hurt?
http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~indy/IndyHurt_2008.pdf
Excellent show and discussion about technology and Geography. Specifically, I liked what Indy said about the need for a background in Computer Science and Geography in today’s graduate programs. As a relatively recent graduate of the program at San Diego State, my peers and I often discussed this very issue. Very few of us had programming backgrounds but the job market seems to require more and more of these types of skills. The scripts I now write are pretty basic and for sure do not adhere to a seasoned prgrammer’s sense of style and order. I liken them to jimmy-rigging an old jalopy together with duct-tape–it’ll drive down the street and it sure beats walking, right? To my boss it looks like a Cadillac.