USA Science and Engineering Festival
Oct 18th, 2010 | By SueThe USA Science and Engineering Festival expo is less than a week away, and here’s a commercial highlighting some of the great exhibits that will be featured:
Archive for October 2010
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 274
Oct 17th, 2010 | By SueA VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 274 October 17, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation on 2D v. 3D mapping Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Call for papers for AAG ’11 session
Oct 17th, 2010 | By JesseI am putting the finishing touches on a paper session that will highlight outreach efforts in Geography and/or geospatial technologies. I need another paper or two to round out the session. If you are doing any outreach work, formal or informal, and you are interested in sharing your successes and lessons learned please contact me [...]
NASA and Gowalla team up for a nationwide scavenger hunt
Oct 16th, 2010 | By SueFor all of you out there who use Gowalla as your mobile location-based social sharing app, you’ll want to check out the new partnership between NASA and Gowalla that includes a fun virtual scavenger hunt called “Search for Moon Rocks.” Any time you visit a museum, science center, or planetarium that has a real moon [...]
Multi-Touch Spherical Display DIY
Oct 15th, 2010 | By FrankI want one! It’s a multi-touch spherical display that you can make for around $1,000. Oddly enough for such a high tech device, it’s got a bit of a steampunk vibe to it. The first example they use is the obvious Google Earth example, but they do show using it in other contexts. I’m not [...]
The Legend of Lillian Alling
Oct 13th, 2010 | By BarbThe Globe and Mail has a story about Lillian Alling, an adventuress who mapped out a route across North America to Siberia by foot and became a legend. According to Tom Hawthorn, “Her story – a mystery with a beginning but no certain end – has inspired novels, films and an opera, which is to [...]
Google Funds Offsite Windfarms on East Coast
Oct 12th, 2010 | By FrankAny of our long-time readers/listeners can tell you I’m a HUGE fan of offshore windfarms. I think they flat out just make the most sense for sustainable energy production. Apparently Google agrees with me. Google is funding a windfarm that is supposed to stretch from New Jersey to Virginia and generate enough power to light [...]
Social media or spatial media
Oct 11th, 2010 | By JesseIn this week’s podcast I tossed out a term, spatial media, to try to clarify our conversation. The discussion was partially prompted by the V1 article titled “Have Social Media and Mapping Linked with GIS-CAD and Geospatial Technologies?” My take on the article’s title was completely different from the article itself, which brought about, for [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 273
Oct 10th, 2010 | By SueA VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 273 October 10, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation on the integration of social media and geospatial technologies Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Have you met Earth Science Week?
Oct 8th, 2010 | By JesseFor those who are not aware Earth Science Week is just around the corner, October 10-16. A good portion of Geography looks at the physical environment and its components…aka is Earth Science. Basically it gives us another week to push Geography awareness. But instead of the focus on human-environment interaction that we trend towards in [...]
