Archive for November 2011





A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 330

Nov 13th, 2011 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 330 November 13, 2011 Main Topic: Our musings on Geography Awareness Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes



American Education Week 2011

Nov 12th, 2011 | By

We are on the heels of not only Geography Awareness Week but American Education Week as well (the 90th in fact). Take some time to thank the educators you may bump into during the week and head over to the National Education Association’s website to find out what the daily themes will be during the [...]



Zebra Stripe App

Nov 11th, 2011 | By

A  short article in this month’s National Geographic magazine gives me a chance to tell a funny kid’s joke about zebras.  ”There were two chickens standing at crosswalk. One says to the other: Should we cross the road?  The other one says: No Way! Look what happened to the zebra!”  According to the National Geographic article,”Scanning [...]



Less than a week to GIS Day

Nov 10th, 2011 | By

GIS Day is next Wednesday, November 16. If you are not hosting an event, that doesn’t mean that you can’t help spread the word. Oh contrare, you can use your freelance status on GIS Day to get the word out. Whether you are sharing your interest via your favorite social media, telling your neighbor about [...]



Flash Player Dead for Mobile

Nov 9th, 2011 | By

Adobe announced today they are killing development of a mobile flash player. Is this the death call for flash? Maybe not, but it certainly is a serious blow. We all know the mobile platform is growing at a phenomenal rate and it’s hard for IT departments to contemplate new development that doesn’t include mobile platforms. [...]



Daniel Raven-Ellison on GAW2011 and the adventure in your community

Nov 8th, 2011 | By

National Geographic Education has done a great job of trying to prepare educators for the 2011 Geography Awareness Week and made a number of their presentations available online on their YouTube channel. While I encourage you to run out and view them all to give you some last minute ideas for next week (or to [...]



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 329

Nov 6th, 2011 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 329 November 06, 2011 Main Topic: Our conversation with Mladen Stojic of ERDAS Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes



GEOGRAFREE – Front Line podcast in English

Nov 5th, 2011 | By

We are always excited about new Geography or geospatial podcasts since they are few and far between, but I am even more excited that a longstanding Geography podcast has become accessible to me (and other english speakers). The GEOGRAFREE Front-Line podcast has been produced in German for 106 episodes but has switched to english with [...]



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 328

Nov 1st, 2011 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 328 November 01, 2011 Another all news episode Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes