The Earth and Space Foundation has an awesome but low funded award program to “funds expeditions that either use Earth’s resources and environments to help us understand other worlds and assist in the exploration of space or expeditions that use space technology and data to help us understand and care for the Earth’s environment”. It [...]
TreeHugger posted about the 300 Years of global climate change on one map. The best quote is “”In late 2009 the UK Government launched an Open Data initiative, headed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, along with a call for innovations challenging the developer community to make this data more accessible. In response, Geo.me Solutions is showcasing [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 232 December 27, 2009 Main Topic: Our 2009 Year in Review Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Besides the fact that I haven’t shaved in 4 years, I think my best present EVER is still a fairly good likeness. You will definitely see an Avenue Q‘ish GeoEd episode in the future. Thanks Sue!
Whether you are celebrating today, have finished your holidays or have festivities coming soon, we wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season! your peeps at VerySpatial Yes, even Santa Frank
We are coming up quickly on CES (in early January) and as usual we are seeing a lot of preshow announcements as companies work to have their products noticed. The big thing this year seems to be the all mighty tablet. Inspired by ST:TNG, just like the cell phone is inspired by ST:TOS, tablets promise [...]
A couple of great competitions for innovative ideas and applications are going on right now, the GeoVation Ideas Challenge and GeoVation Awards Programme in the UK and New York City’s BigApps Competition, and you can participate! For the GeoVation Ideas Challenge (GeoVation was founded and is currently supported by the Ordnance Survey), you simply sign [...]
TV Tropes is a great wiki that catalogs all the tropes inherent in media, literature, and games. They have several geovisual subjects including television geography such as “Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke manage to get everywhere in Vienna, despite only spending only one night there.” They cover Hollywood Atlas or the stereotypical Hollywood geography and [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 231 December 20, 2009 Main Topic: Our Annual Outtakes Episode Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
The data from NASA’s earth observation satellites are critical resources in many areas of research, and it’s important to highlight the achievements of the Earth Observation System program, a multi-national and multi-agency partnership including NASA, JPL, and JAXA. The goal of the EOS program has been to provide comprehensive data sets on Earth’s climate, land [...]
