A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 326
October 16, 2011
Main Topic: GIS and gaming revisited
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Music
This week’s podsafe music: “Dear Friend” by Daiki and Little Wings
News
Open data sparking a business revolution?
New NGA public website and future geoINT app marketplace
TeleNav and Navigon and Magellan mobile apps
ArcGIS 10, SP3 is now available
Web Corner
GeoCurrents
Main Topic
In this week’s main topic, we take another look at the convergence of geospatial technologies and gaming, and give a few thoughts on where we see potential opportunities and challenges. Links of interest – Esri Insider – The intersection of GIS and gaming and Google MapsGL
Tip of the Week
AndroGeoid – from Ed
Events Corner
2nd National Tribal GIS Conference: Oct 24-27, Albuquerque, NM
Houston Area GIS Day: 10 Nov, Houston, TX, Lone Star College-CyFair
GeoNext Forum: 29 February, Sydney, Australia
Where Conference 2012: 2-4 April, San Francisco, CA
This week, A VerySpatial Podcast is sponsored by Esri
Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS: A Workbook, Second Edition, from Esri Press, offers scenario-based lessons to develop GIS and critical-thinking skills.
The book helps you use GIS workflows, spatial analysis, and visualization to make decisions about real-world issues using ArcGIS 10 software.
For more information, visit esri.com/esripress.
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Weekly Feed (mp3)
Just listened to the podcast and here’s my two cents:
I’ve given at least a dozen workshops to educators on using Google Maps and Google Earth and what I’m enabling them to do is teach their students by playing a game. The subject might be the silk road, or the charles w morgan whaling ship, but in the end the activities generally share the same trait. Navigating from place to place after completing specific tasks or goals. However, I never use the word “game” in any of my presentations. This is not intentional, but what I have the educators do during my workshops is play. Play with the interface, play with concepts, and play with each other.
Anywho… I support your efforts in making Gaming one of the ascendant fields in our discipline!
Best,
Jeff!