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AVSP Roadshow – The GIS Institute @ ESRIUC

Published on August 31, 2010 by in Conference, Podcast

Barb and Frank caught up with Drew Stephens of The GIS Institute to talk about some of the activities they have going on now that they spend most of their time on land (check out our 2007 interview about Service at Sea). Click here to download the episode in MP3 format

 
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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 267

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 267 August 29, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversations with Christopher Cretini of the USGS Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes

 
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Wedding Geography

Several crafty types have created homemade moving compass wedding invitations for their weddings including a heirloom quality one made of recycled chip board, a super fun interactive one posted on Crafster with a great compass related poem, and some artistic hand drawn maps and compass invitations by Pier Gustafson. On the basic logistics side, many

 
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Visualization of Tabular Data

Published on August 26, 2010 by in general

FlowingData is a fun website created by a Ph.D candidate in statistics that “explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better – mainly through data visualization”. If you think statistics is a dry topic, its probably because you haven’t seen this website. It’s amazing what decent data visualization does

 
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NASA Earth Science Hurricane Katrina retrospective

To mark the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating landfall in the Gulf Coast, NASA Earth Science has released this short video retrospective of some of the imagery and analyses that were used to track and visualize Hurricane Katrina

 
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Just Give Me the Address…

I know, another xkcd comic, but I just couldn’t resist:

 
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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 266

Published on August 22, 2010 by in general, Show Notes

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 266 August 22, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversations with Mike Dana of Wacom and Eric Walden of Microsoft Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes

 
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A VerySpatial Podcast – Special Episode 56

We grabbed a quick chat at the ESRI UC with the president of Procedural Inc about their product CityEngine which is used to populate 3D digital city models. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC

 
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Video preview of ArcGIS Explorer 1500

Via the Esri Developer Network Facebook page is a hip preview video for the upcoming ArcGIS Explorer 1500, complete with catchy music (Sorry the video isn’t set up to embed, so just click the image below to go to the video) -

 
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Facebook Discovers Places Exist

Alright, I admit I stretched a bit for that headline.  However, the important bit is that Facebook has now added Places to it’s features.  Places allow you to tag where you’re at when you post status updates.  On the benign side of the coin (that’s the Harvey Dent one for you DC nerds reading), this

 
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