BBC Radio 4′s Today program recently asked “Where’s left to explore?”. The answer is an interesting discussion of the impact of geospatial technologies and the meaning of exploration that is definitely worth a read. For my part, I think that while the grand concept of exploration is important it is our small adventures that allow [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 190 March 8, 2009 Main Topic: Our conversation about geospatial envangelism Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Quick reminder that we in the US are under the fairly new (and absurd) start time for Daylight Savings Time (DST). So Sunday morning, 8 March at 2:00 am don’t forget to spring forward and set your clock forward one hour. Enjoy losing an hour of sleep Saturday night.
The New York Times has a nice interactive map (flash based) of unemployement rates by county. It shows that areas with housing booms, lots of manufacturing, and high existing unemployment got hit the hardest this last year, which isn’t a huge suprise. However, you can use the map to see some regionalization to this stuff.
Ars Technica is reporting about a bill introduced by a California legislator about a month ago making it a crime to not blur out government buildings, including schools and churches. The bill would make the punishment for non-compliance $250,000 per day and a minimum of a year of jail time for the company’s executive officers. [...]
Just a quick reminder about a few upcoming conferences: ASPRS is going on next week (8-13 March) week in Baltimore; AAG Early registration ends on March 10 and the conference will be taking place 22-27 March in Las Vegas and; ESRI Dev Summit early registration end March 13 and the event will take place in [...]
That’s right, it was March 1st, 1984 when Landsat 5 lifted off on a expected 3-year Earth observation mission, and here we are 25 years later, and the old workhorse is still capturing imagery! So, congrats to NASA and Landsat 5 on a quarter century of documenting Earth from space! You can read the NASA [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 189 March 1, 2009 Main Topic: Our conversation with Keith Masback, President of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
