A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 332 November 27, 2011 Main Topic: Kinect and immersion Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
A recent article in The Guardian, “Your Moons are Rubbish, Astronomer tells Christmas Card Artists“, by science Ian Sample was entertaining but also raised several serious scientific questions. Peter Barthel from the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands wrote an article for the journal Communicating Astronomy with The Public on astronomical realism in [...]
Thank You! Not much more to say since you guys are the reason that we keep doing the podcast year after year. We also want to thank our blog contributors who joined us this year. Thanks Jeff, Jim, and Barbaree. Of course, our sponsors help us get to some great places to talk to folks [...]
A follow-up discussion on certification with Jeff Dunn. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 331 November 20, 2011 Main Topic: Our conversation on smart city initiatives Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Matthew Erickson, deputy graphics director at The New York Times, has a great post about ”When Maps Shouldn’t Be Maps” or how location can be represented by a broad range of geovisualizations. He discusses that while using a map is often the right choose when presenting information that geovisualizations can add to the story. He has [...]
On Tuesday Sue and I sat down for our first distance presentation. Our audience were faculty and students at the University of Szeged in Hungary where a friend/colleague of ours is spending time as part of a Fulbright. Since we were on Skype and in front of mics anyway I recorded the presentation to share. [...]
Each year as the holidays approach (and yes I include GAW in that list of holidays) we try to reach out to a vendor who carries Geographic or cartographic items to see if they would be willing to cut you guys a break/provide a discount in exchange for some free ad space on VerySpatial. This [...]
Ladies and gents, we are firmly into Geography Awareness Week 2011 (#gaw2011) and events they are a-happenin’ from your local classrooms to the social media circuses. If you haven’t checked out the usual suspects you should head over (in no particular order) to: GeographyAwarenessWeek On Facebook Mission:Explore MyWonderfulWorld Blog Geography@About.com to name just a few [...]
What Your Favorite Map Projection Says About You… don’t forget to read the info tag by hovering over the image! From the always hilarious xkcd.com
