Archive for May 2010





A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 251

May 9th, 2010 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 251 May 9, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation with Joel Campbell, president of ERDAS Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes



The Biggest Game Worlds

May 8th, 2010 | By

Years and years ago, Jesse, Sue, and I had a discussion about the size of game worlds.  The image represents a pretty impressive rundown of the sizes of various current games.  I was impressed at some of the sizes and had no idea some were that large! Jesse update: There was a question of the [...]



School’s out for summer ’10

May 7th, 2010 | By

For those of you in colleges and universities around the world, we are at that time of year where it is time to take a short but important break. So whether you are already out, just getting out (like me), or have another week to go, enjoy your summer break however short it is. Hopefully [...]



Grassroots Mapping for the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

May 6th, 2010 | By

Recently we featured the Grassroots Mapping project, a community participatory mapping initiative from the MIT Media Lab, on the podcast, and now the Grassroots team has headed down to Louisiana to try to utilize their balloon-based camera system to acquire imagery and map the Gulf oil spill along the Louisiana coast. Their goals are not [...]



Visualizations are beautiful

May 6th, 2010 | By

The second edition of ‘The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide To The World’s Most Consequential Trivia” by David McCandless is out soon. He also has a website called “Information is Beautiful” for anyone wanting to check out his awe inspiring visualizations of seemingly everyday data. The is also an interactive visualization of health supplements that [...]



IBM’s CityOne – Gaming to solve our cities’ problems

May 4th, 2010 | By

While I continue my research in the area of immersive virtual worlds and serious gaming, I have also been doing a lot of work recently in the area of digital cities, and trying to implement the idea of a “smart” 3D city or town landscape that can be used as a visualization and collaboration tool [...]



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 250

May 2nd, 2010 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 250 May 2, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation with Harvey J. Miller on time geography and temporal GIS Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes