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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 241

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 241 February 28, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation about time and remote sensing Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes

 
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MIT students create 3D relief interface

Published on February 26, 2010 by in Cool Stuff, general

Nowadays, when we think about research into 3D interfaces, it’s usually referring to work done on trying to get real objects to display in 3D in a computer. But check out this cool project, called Relief, created by MIT students to read digital relief data and create a physical 3D model. It uses an array

 
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Human Movement Can Be Predicted by Cell Phones

This shouldn’t come as any huge shock to anyone familiar with LBS, but researchers have shown that 93% of human movement can be predicted by cell phone.  In an article published in Science, the researchers suggest that most human movement is fairly limited in area.  They actually say most customers stay in a 6 mile radius most

 
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Best US Government Blogs

Ran across this interesting post: the best government blogs and why they’re the best.  With the exception of NASA, none of these have a direct geospatial tie.  In fact, all but one of them are CIO’s of their respective organizations.  It sorta makes sense it would start there, but I’d like to challenge anybody in local, state,

 
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Ramping up for Where 2.0

Published on February 22, 2010 by in Events, Where20

Clearly conference season is upon us at the VerySpatial virtual compound as we are buying tickets for planes and trains to get to various parts of the country. With Where 2.0 kicking off on March 29 in San Jose, we wanted to point out two things. 1) Early Registration has been extended until March 1,

 
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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 240

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 240 February 21, 2010 Main Topic: Part 2 of our conversation with the organizers of the 2010 GeoDesign Summit Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes

 
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GPS Adventures at the Maryland Science Center

Dan at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore emailed to let us know that GPS Adventures, a traveling exhibit all about GPS and geocaching, will be opening tomorrow, February 20th and will be running until April 18th. GPS Adventures gives visitors an introduction to GPS technology and the basics of navigation in general, and offers

 
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Microsoft Live Labs’ Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos AR features for Bing Maps

As you all know by now, I am a fan of Photosynth. Just a few days ago, the creator of Seadragon and co-creator of Photosynth, Blaise Aguera y Arcas gave a great presentation at TED 2010 and showed a demo of some new augmented reality type features being integrated into Bing Maps, including Indoor Panoramas

 
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Mobile is as mobile does

Published on February 16, 2010 by in Gadgets, LBS

As you may have been able to tell from the avalanche of mobile phone hardware and software news this week, the Mobile World Congress is going on in Barcelona. So far the big news (in my eyes) has been on the operating system front with Microsoft’s announcement of Windows Phone 7, which looks like an

 
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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 239

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 239 February 14, 2010 Main Topic: Part 1 of our conversation with the organizers of the 2010 GeoDesign Summit Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes

 
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