The world has been set right as we return to our GISDay tradition of talking with our friend Rick Lawson of Esri about a variety of GIS topics such as trends, education, and great GIS tools. Included in our conversation are the new Explore Your Place History tool and the gallery of tools from Cybertech. [...]
This post was written as a guest post for the MyWonderfulWorld blog for Geography Awareness Week. Be sure to head over and check out more of the MWW blog-a-thon for GAW. Continuing Geography Awareness Week, we would like to talk about a topic that brings together geospatial technologies (it is GIS Day after all) with [...]
Faculty and students from Washington College in Maryland presented at Geoint2010 about some of the projects they have going on. We had a chance to talk about how GIS and geospatial technologies are being used at their school. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC
We caught up with some of the folks from Dover Area High School in Pennsylvania after they presented at Geoint2010 to talk about how GIS and geospatial technologies are being used at their school. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC
One of my favorite geography related songs is “Yakko’s World” from the Animaniacs Cartoon Series. When I went to find they lyrics recently, I was surprised to find that there was a Facebook page devoted to “I know all the lyrics to Yakko’s World” and a spirited debate about the countries referenced in the song. [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 278 November 14, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation with Merrill Johnson of the University of New Orleans Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
We found our way back, once again, to Geography Awareness Week. As you are probably aware, this year’s theme is Freshwater and we will be touching on the topic in our guest post on the MyWonderfulWorld blog on Wednesday, but we have our standard fair of daily podcasts planned for right here on veryspatial.com as [...]
The Guardian UK interviews volunteers and family members who have used an digital library of war graves around the world in their article, “How to visit a virtual grave: A digital photography project allows families to see the final resting place of relatives who died in battle for the first time.” The War Graves Photographic [...]
If Sherlock Holmes was alive today, like he is in the modern day Sherlock TV Show, he would use geospatial technologies and extensive closed circuit camera systems (CCTV) to solve crime. This isn’t purely speculation, because as co-creator of the tv series Steve Moffat points out, Sherlock Holmes was a modern detective during his time. [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 277 November 7, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation with Richard Cooke of ITT Visual Information Solutions Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
