Our second Tweet4Trees sponsor is our friends over at ESRI. Our Tweet4Trees campaign is part of our fourth anniversary celebration and is a pledge to recognize our listeners and readers by donating to tree planting charities based on the number of twitter followers we have as of our 4th anniversary episode on July 15. It [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 206 June 28, 2009 Main Topic: Our conversation with Drew Davidson of Carnegie Mellon University’s ETC Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Google labs has launched a neat new feature called City Tours. The idea is similar to other sites (like Microsoft’s BING!) in that you can enter in a destination and the site will give you a bunch of things to do there. What’s nice is you get it all laid out on Google Maps, with [...]
Over the years we have seen many geovisualization technologies emerge, each with their own ups and downs (pun, sadly, intended). All of the approaches, however, can be broken down to two styles: 1) flythrough visualizations, where the creator has setup a prescribed flight path that the viewer can not escape (often distributed as a video), [...]
Question 3 of our 4th Anniversary is up on the website. Just a reminder that all entries must be submitted by July 6 at 23:59 PDT. Also, only entrants with a valid US address are eligible for the Grand Prize of a netbook, but everyone is eligible for one of the two the runner up [...]
With just three weeks until the ESRI User Conference(s) we have firmed up our plans for the 4th Anniversary AVSP: Live! show that will take place on Wednesday, July 15 at 5:00PDT in Room 30E of the SDCC. We are excited to be joined by ArcPad team members to talk about ArcPad 8 and mobile [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 205 June 21, 2009 Main Topic: Our conversation with John Schneider of abaq.us Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
I just found out that the Geographical Association’s Geography Awareness Week is coming up this week. For those of you in the UK you should check to see what local events might be going on, and if you are hosting a GAW event this week send us an email, we would like to know what [...]
For those of us up north it is the last day of Spring. With the longest day of the year soon behind us we will shortly be delving into that most evil time of year the summer along with its evil heat. Sure, some of you prefer the summer, but I just can’t get behind [...]
As many long-time listeners will know, I exceptionally intersted in broadband adoption world-wide. The US has long been behind the ball on broadband adoption and this latest report does nothing to reverse that trend. The US is ranked 20th, behind even places like Singapore, Denmark, and even Estonia, all places I’m sure most Americans wouldn’t [...]
