Archive for October 2010





A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 276

Oct 31st, 2010 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 276 October 31, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation on geography awareness through travel Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes



A Map of Europe Made Out of Lego

Oct 30th, 2010 | By

I can’t add anything here to make this any cooler.  A map.  Made out of Lego.  What else do you need? Via Gizmodo



Haunted Apps

Oct 29th, 2010 | By

Haunted places, there’s an app for that, really. When I went searching for haunted places apps for Halloween, I thought that there might be one or two apps out there. Instead I found several categories of haunted apps. First there are the local area apps such as the WeirdNJ which is a guide to NJ [...]



Speak with us at GEOINT 2010

Oct 28th, 2010 | By

Sue and I are preparing for our first trip to GEOINT 2010 Symposium next week in New Orleans. We have some conversations planned already both at the conference and a quick trip over to the University of New Orleans, but there are still slots in our calendar. If you are going to be on site [...]



Gerrymandering – the movie (no…really)

Oct 27th, 2010 | By

This week we are highlighting some examples of media that can be used to emphasize Geography Awareness. Most are not quite as explicit as Gerrymandering a documentary that has made its rounds of the film festivals this year, but it highlights the interactions between Geography and other disciplines. I hope that it also talks about [...]



Watch doggie parkour to learn about foreign places

Oct 26th, 2010 | By

During this week’s episode Frank pointed out the use of general videos to show landscapes. Whether you are trying to highlight a metropolis or rural area there are generally videos that include these landscapes. Frank’s example is the use of a video from Ukraine that highlights a dog traversing a city.



West Wing takes on projections

Oct 25th, 2010 | By

During our conversation this week on Episode 275 we highlighted a couple of videos in our discussion of using media to highlight Geography. We will link to a few over the next few days, but I wanted to start with this great video Frank showed me a few years ago.



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 275

Oct 24th, 2010 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 275 October 24, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation on geography awareness through popular media Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes



3D cities

Oct 22nd, 2010 | By

This week’s podcast (episode 274) looked at the 2D/3D question, but as we tend to do, we talked a good bit more about 3D than 2D. We each, of course, have worked with 2D and 3D applications, but again and again we have returned to 3D for a particular use. Urban environments scream for 3D. [...]



To Mars and Beyond

Oct 20th, 2010 | By

As a young girl reading OMNI magazine, I couldn’t imagine saying no to a one way trip to explore space. I’m a little older now and would ask more questions, such as the ones posed in Cosmic Logic on MSNBC. It discusses a paper written by Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Washington State University and Paul Davies, Arizona [...]