A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 326

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.


    One Reply to “A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 326”

    1. Jeff Dunn

      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!

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