Archive for February 2012





How space can make us better

Feb 29th, 2012 | By

Neil deGrasse Tyson was recently on The Daily Show and he backed Sue’s excitement about space (not to be confused with space) and the importance of a sense of exploration on the cultural trend toward STEM education. All and all, it is just an awesome interview/dialogue. The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show [...]



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 345

Feb 27th, 2012 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 345 February 26, 2012 Our conversation with Nate Jennings about A Python Primer for ArcGIS® Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes



Podcast delayed

Feb 26th, 2012 | By

Sorry folks. The AAG activity has pushed back the release of episode 345 to at least Monday.



A VerySpatial Podcast – Special Episode 62

Feb 23rd, 2012 | By

A conversation with Torsten Wißmann of the Frontline podcast over at Geografree.com. We talk about Geography in Germany and how awesome podcasting about Geography is. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC



Engaging Cities raffle can get you into the Where Conference

Feb 22nd, 2012 | By

The folks over at Engaging Cities are offering up a free registration to this year’s Where Conference. The catch? They want to hear how you have used GIS or LBS to engage citizens. From their post: Have you been involved with a project that utilized GIS or location-based services to engage citizens? We want to [...]



Geography Web Comics

Feb 21st, 2012 | By

It isn’t often that world geography and international relations can make you laugh out loud, but the web comic Scandinavia and the World manages to do it very well.  A friend who teaches Eastern European languages posted their comic about Scotland joining the Nordics. The BBC did a good article on “How Scandinavian is Scotland”, [...]



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 344

Feb 19th, 2012 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 344 February 19, 2012 Our conversation with Intergraph’s Mladen Stojic Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes



Lightsquared Pretty Much Out Of The Fight

Feb 15th, 2012 | By

Lightsquared, who last month received a conditional waiver from the FCC on its products, looks like it might be in trouble as the FCC has withdrawn that waiver.  Obviously the FCC acted in response to concerns over GPS interference.  This officially ‘kills’ Lightsquared’s proposed solution to rolling out a 4G-LTE network over the spectrum it owns, baring [...]



Looking for a few good interviews at the AAG in NY

Feb 15th, 2012 | By

The VerySpatial crew will be at the AAG in New York from Friday, 24 February to Tuesday, 28 February. We have a handful of conversations lined up, but if you would like to sit down with us at the conference to talk about your project, class, product, etc. contact us via email (or twitter or [...]



Happy Valentine’s Day!

Feb 14th, 2012 | By

A fellow geographer just gave me the cutest and most appropriate Valentine’s Day card he created. He printed them out in the traditional small Valentine’s Day Card style used in grade school to give to other geographers.  Clinton Davis has it posted to his WVU student website but he is also letting me use the image on Very [...]