A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 310
June 26, 2011
Main Topic: Geogames and geoplay
Click to directly download MP3
Click to directly download AAC
Click for the detailed shownotes
Music
This week’s podsafe music: “Moscow” by Audrey and Orwell
News
Esri appoints Dawn Wright as Chief Scientist
NSF supports roadmap to 21st century Geography Education
Cryosat-2’s first sea-ice map
QGIS 1.7.0 ‘Wroclaw’…next up 2.0
Web Corner
Promise of Place – place-based education initiatives
Main topic
With a SIG on Geoplay and Geogames coming up at the EsriUC we talk about what these terms mean to us and what we think of the trends.
Tip of the Week
Geogames and Geoplay Interest Group at the EsriUC, Tuesday, July 12, 4:40, Room 26A
Events Corner
4th International Conference on Health GIS : 5-6 August, New Delhi, India
GEOINT 2011 : 16-19 October, San Antonio, TX
19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011) : 1-4 November, Chicago, IL
First International Geospatial Geocoding Conference (IGGC) : 6-7 December, Redlands, CA
This week, A VerySpatial Podcast is sponsored by Esri
Getting to Know ArcGIS ModelBuilder, from Esri Press, helps you create tools and automate geoprocessing workflows and models in ArcGIS. The book presents concepts and exercises, and includes examples of models, Python scripts, and custom applications. For more information, visit www.esri.com/esripress.