Over at Zazzle.com there is an interesting/amusing t-shirt that is making its rounds online that brings geocaching down to its most basic elements. If you are looking for early holiday gifts that embrace Geography you could do worse than a search on Zazzle.com. You could even get a pair of the great map shoes.
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 225 November 8, 2009 Main Topic: Our conversation with ESRI’s Bernie Szukalski Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Never lose your way on the NYC subway again or have to stop to check out those pesky signs, instead you can use the new “NYC SUBWAY” quilt fabric made by The City Quilter. They also have some awesome ariel shots of “Olde New York“. You can do like Quilty Indulgence did and make a [...]
With the large number of location apps on the iPhone and other mobile devices out there, it surprises me that there are so few (handful by my account) professional quality apps. Tonight’s round of press release emails included an intriguing mobile solution. The iPhone/iPod Touch application is called Field Assets and was developed by LBS [...]
The BBC has a news article and video about how GPS is being used in Northumberland to record the locations of 69 ‘hairy northern wood ant” nests in advance of a major clearing. The goal is to preserve the ant nests as the modern conifers are cleared to allow for native species to reclaim the [...]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today announced the DARPA Network Challenge to mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet. The competition requires participants to discover the exact position of 10 large, red weather balloons that DARPA will place in undisclosed locations across the continental United States. The first person to identify the location [...]
The Call for Papers has gone out for the new GIScience Research track at the 2010 ESRI International User Conference. “Papers in this special track must focus on cutting-edge research in GIScience. Full papers will be included in a special issue of Transactions in GIS to be distributed at the 2010 Conference. Abstracts (500 words) [...]
The U.K. Daily Mail must have a geographer on staff because they always have interesting geospatial related stories. They recently have an article about a white water rafting company in Colorado that is using a “pigeon express” to deliver memory cards to the their home base. According to the article, Rocky Mountain Adventures found that [...]
This is so cool – Next fall, from October 10-24th, the Inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival, the US’s first national science festival, will be held in the Washington, DC area. The culmination of the Festival will be a 2-day (October 23rd and 24th) Expo on the National Mall. From the Festival website – “The [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 224 November 1, 2009 Main Topic: Our conversation on some of the debates over GIS and its future Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
