College Humor gives us a glimpse of the “Google Street View Guys”
Oct 15th, 2009 | By SueI saw this little video tonight and decided to continue my streak of video posts: See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
Archive for October 2009
Cops Can’t Track Car with GPS Without Warrent
Oct 14th, 2009 | By FrankThe Electronic Frontier Foundation had an interesting piece about two weeks ago that I just ran across. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts recently ruled that it is against their state constitution for the police to track a vehicle using GPS without court approval. The interesting thing here is that the crux of their rationale is that the [...]
A Little Early Halloween treat from VerySpatial
Oct 13th, 2009 | By SueWe received a very curious request from Ed, one of our long-time readers, who wanted to see the VerySpatial folks get down with their own Monster Mash. And, of course, we like to keep you all happy, so Ed, here you go… VerySpatial does the MonsterMash
Autodesk interviews an idea
Oct 12th, 2009 | By JesseOver at the Autodesk It is Alive in the Lab blog they have a good Monday morning post that looks at what an idea is and how it develops. What makes it stand-out is that they set it up as an interview with an idea (Mr. Idea). The anthropomorphizing of a concept is great fun [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 221
Oct 11th, 2009 | By SueA VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 221 October 11, 2009 Main Topic: Our conversation about remote sensing and its broadening role in geospatial technologies Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
USDA Crop Explorer
Oct 11th, 2009 | By BarbThe United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agriculture Service in partnership with NASA has a Crop Explorer mapping global food supply by region. It can be searched by region or commodity. One of the things I found most interesting was the visitor’s map which shows where people who visit the site are logging in from [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast – Special Episode 51
Oct 9th, 2009 | By JesseWay back at the AAG we had a chance to talk to Dawn Hawley of Northern Arizona University about how she has effectively brought computer games into the classroom. Click to download mp3 version Click to download aac version
New Jersey is to Clerks as Idaho is to….
Oct 8th, 2009 | By BarbI was looking up some old movies online and found tons of fun information on movies and their associated landmarks or states. Rotten Tomatoes has a fun “50 Movies for 50 States” U.S. map. It has some obvious ones like Kansas and the Wizard of Oz or Oklahoma and Oklahoma! but also many that you [...]
Where 2.0 – Speaking proposals
Oct 7th, 2009 | By JesseThe Where 2.0 conference timeline is stepped up this year since the conference is happening two months early in March. On that note there is only one week left to submit your proposals to speak at the conference. This year it seems that O’Reilly is looking to pull in a broader set of speakers and [...]
Watch the launch of DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 satellite Live!
Oct 6th, 2009 | By SueDigitalGlobe is getting ready to launch its next commercial Earth imaging satellite, WorldView-2, and you can watch the launch live. Although slightly delayed, the plan for WorldView-2′s launch is now set for Thursday, October 8th at 11:38 a.m. Pacific time. The satellite will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. WorldView-2 will have [...]
