We will be finalizing the count on our Tweet4Trees drive at 5PM PDT. The number of followers we have over at http://twitter.com/veryspatial at that time will be the amount we will be donating to a tree planting organization ($1/person). We would like to thank our sponsors Landmark Information Group and ESRI for supporting the drive!
The bandwidth is just too sketchy at the ESRI User Conference (happens when you have 1000′s with wifi devices), but it means we will not be streaming the live show this afternoon. We did want to share a cupcake with you since we will be having some at the show.
I caught a few sessions and two in particular I thought were worth taking notes. The first is about return on investments and calculating them for government. Ultimately the presentations weren’t that strong on this topic in that session, but there was a wealth of information about how local governments can develop GIS even on [...]
I just went to a great ESRI session on social & environmental sustainability where researchers in areas as diverse as homelessness and toxic waste, asked the age old question of cause and effect. The interesting part was that they sought to gain depth of knowledge using GIS. As the last speaker, Dr. bossard from San [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 208 July 13, 2009 Main Topic: Our conversation with Dylan Lorimer of Google Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Live blogging – all times PST and I’ll try to get pictures up as quick as possible. 8:39 – Meet the people around you. I met a nice guy from the ESRI surfaces office out of Denver named Jonathan. He’s involed in the aerospace group out of that office 8:40 – Jack’s running down the [...]
The multiple-conferenced beast that is the ESRI User Conference is underway today with the Education User Conference (where I am), the Homeland Security Summit, and the Surveying & Engineering Summit. This year the EdUC has moved to the other end of the SDCC to the Hilton Bayfront. The opening plenary saw the motley crew that [...]
We spoke with Steve Farrer and Suzanne Freyjadis of GamePath about the recent Game Education Summit and GamePath’s related events. Click here to download the episode in MP3 format
The crew over on the Google Earth Enterprise have a new version to announce – 3.2. The fellows over at Google have had a pretty busy week, what with the big OS announcement, not to mention the offical launch of much of their product line, so it’d be easy to miss this in the diluge of [...]
Jesse and Sue talk about the recent Game Education Summit and the sessions they attended. Click here to download the episode in MP3 format
