Month: November 2009

• November 9, 2009general

  Geocaching…the humor

  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 […]

• November 8, 2009general, Podcast, Show Notes

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 225

  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 […]

• November 7, 2009general, Travel

  NYC Map Fabric

  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 […]

• November 6, 2009general, Navigation

  Field Assets for the iPhone

  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 […]

• November 5, 2009general, Physical Geography

  Ants and GPS

  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 […]

• November 4, 2009general

  DARPA Network Challenge

  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 […]

• November 3, 2009Education, ESRIUC, Events, general

  New GIScience track at the 2010 ESRI User Conference

  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 […]

• November 3, 2009general

  As straight as the pigeon flys…

  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 […]

• November 2, 2009Education, Events, general, GeographyAwareness

  First ever USA Science and Engineering Festival – Fall 2010!

  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 […]

• November 1, 2009general, Podcast, Show Notes

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 224

  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 […]