There are some cool GEOGRAPHY gifts like map jigsaw puzzles, cool Harry Potter marauder map pillows, or antique maps and reproductions. Then there are some gifts that scream, YOU like geography. Here’s a globe!, like an etched glass globe fish bowl, Earth globes, and even snow globes. However, if you are looking for a less [...]
It is that time of year again, Black Friday is behind us and Cyber Monday is here and everyone is thinking of the holidays to come that get us in the giving mood. To honor this time of year, and to talk about some cool stuff, we will spend this week talking about some of [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 280 November 28, 2010 Main Topic: Conversations with Peter Sforza of Virginia Tech and Jeannie Allen of iGETT Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Map making used to be an arduous, time-consuming, and often dangerous process. Although modern map-making is often still an arduous, time-consuming, and in some instances, dangerous process, new technologies are continually invented that make it easier. Modern Mechanix from July 1946 features a Coe-graph invented by Australian Lt. Col. H. J. F. Coe. It is [...]
Fifty million people are expected to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade tomorrow. If you can’t be there in person, you can join the on-line Thanksgiving Day Parade community and experience the parade route through the Macy’s website. I have fond memories of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade route. Digg, of course, has already posted [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 279 November 22, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation with Joel Campbell of ERDAS Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
This week’s episode will be up Monday. I have been derelict in my editing duties due to a busy weekend visiting family and watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. Come back in about 24 hours for this week’s conversation with Joel Campbell of ERDAS.
Wrapping up Geography Awareness Week 2010 (a day late) Sue and I talk about our thoughts on this year’s inaugural Academic Track at Geoint2010. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC
Faculty and students from the Penn State Online Geospatial Intelligence Certificate were on the show floor at Geoint2010 and we took some time to find out about the certificate program. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC
The Oxford Dictionary is launching a campaign to save words that are being dropped from the English Language. According to their website, 90% of everything we write is communicated by a 7,000 word vocabulary. The Save The Words website, which allows you to “adopt” a word and keep it in use, has a hodge-podge collage [...]
