There are several sites on-line where people have set up controllable Halloween decorations for various causes. Alek’s Halloween site is a little crowded but that’s part of its charm. He’s been doing it since 2005, has a Google map of the people who have participated, and all the decorations are wind-powered. Halloween Addict has a [...]
Smithsonian Magazine, is sponsoring a great event here in the US on September 26th, Museum Day 2009. Over 1250 participating museums around the country will be offering free admission, which is a cool deal. If you follow the link above to the Museum Day website, you’ll find a Google Maps app to help you locate [...]
That right – if you’re in the UK and you’re a GIS developer utilizing ESRI products, ESRI UK is sponsoring the http://www.esriuk.com/micro_sites/mashup_challenge/. All you have to do is build a GIS-based mashup utilizing Bing Maps and ESRI’s web mapping technology, and you could win an Xbox and a free seat at an ESRI UK web [...]
If you haven’t seen it already. Apartment Therapy has a post about a Dutch artist who has created real life “dead pixels” that show up on Google Earth. It is a really neat and creative example of art in a public place.
Apologies for the delay in getting Part 3 of this series up. Parts 1 and 2 of my comments on Aspiring Academics: A Resource Book for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty from the AAG focused on the sections on Career Planning and Personal Management and Developing and Enhancing Teaching and Advising Skills respectively. The [...]
Whenever Holloween starts to come around, I always think about geography and candy. The world in a candy bar map , such as the one from Indiana and Purdue, is one of the staples of social study teacher’s everywhere. Candy Critic blog has a great discussion of candy from around the world, a map of [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 217 September 13, 2009 Main Topic: Our conversation with Brian Wienke of Accela Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
A band you should be listening (at least on Tuesday when the CD comes out). This is an alt rock/alt country mega group with folks like Glen Phillips, Sean Watkins, Luke Bulla and others. Sue, Zach and I caught an early variation of the band in San Fran a couple of years ago and it [...]
Whenever I see articles like the one about a smart IBM guy who uses Twitter to control his house functions, it makes me think of those old Tex Avery cartoons about the home of tommorw or the clip about the future house. I can imagine it being used to prove that no matter where I [...]
Today I launched a new podcast entitled Spatial@UNCP. It is an attempt to evangelize spatial concepts and geospatial technologies on my new campus, but I am hopeful that it will find a broader audience as it ages. The 5-10 minute podcast will present information in an introductory manner to cover the concepts and technologies to [...]
