Anyone who talks to me about energy will quickly learn I’m a HUGE fan of offshore wind energy. So this news item in the New York Times caught my eye pretty quick – regulators have approved the US’s first offshore windfarm. As the opponents point out in the article, this is just one of several [...]
May 1, 2010 is the day that US Census takers will be fanning out across the country to go door-to-door and try to count households that did not respond via the Census form.
I would like to announce a plan, or at least the idea of a plan, for the upcoming ESRI International User Conference and beyond…PlaceCamp. PlaceCamp is intended to be a way to get people talking about how we can use geospatial data and technologies and Geography concepts in the humanities in an unconference-y environment. There [...]
“To see a world in a grain of sand” – William Blake’s lyrical words take on a new meaning when you watch this video of IBM researchers demonstrating their new nanomill technology, which uses a tiny silicon tip to carve out objects and features as small as 15 nanometers. While it’s probably not going to [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 249 April 25, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation with Andrew Shears about his research on post-Katrina New Orleans Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
I have three different web server accounts now-a-days, whittled down significantly over time once I found a provider I was happy with that supported multiple domains (I am afraid to even count the number of domains I have sitting doing nothing but representing an idea). The multidomain provider is in the UK. Then I have [...]
As I sit here STILL trying to fight off whatever cold/flu combo I brought back from AAG, I thought I would point out some great galleries of imagery of our Earth, from both government EO programs like NASA to private firms like GeoEye. Browsing through these galleries of amazing images of the Earth is a [...]
In case you haven’t listened to this week’s episode, you are missing out on our conversation with a couple of the guys (David and Mark) of IndieMapper. Part of that conversation included them rolling out a coupon code for our listeners and readers. If you use the code “veryspatial” you will get 50% off the [...]
Apparently the service provider for the podcasts is moving us to a new server. If you have any problems accessing any podcast files in the next few hours, sorry. The transition should be finished soon(ish?) and hopefully it will not have an impact on the feeds (updating 300 rss entries would not be fun). As [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 248 April 18, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversations about indiemapper and ZoomAtlas from Where 2.0 Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
