A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 380 October 28, 2012 Main Topic: Our GEOINT 2012 conversation with Beau Legeer of Exelis Visual Information Solutions Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Hurricane Sandy and Metadata
Many online news outlets are posting real-time or interactive maps of the impact of Hurricane Sandy. It is nice to see that many of them are including meta-data on the source of their information. It is something that is often missing from online news maps, which is strange because of the normally strict rules about
Space between my ears – Sometimes We Need A Grade School Refresher
Occasionally there is a national news item that bubbles up to take headlines and starts a dialogue about a formerly fringe-ish topic. This week, there were two. In order of occurrence, the first is that an Italian judge has declared six scientists criminally negligent in predicting an earthquake and has sentenced them to six years
Scientists Convicted of Manslaughter for Failing To Predict Earthquake
We’ve been following this news item for some time, and I have to say I, for one, never dreamed these scientists would be convicted. An Italian judge has decided six scientists and one government official are criminally negligent for failing to predict the L’Aquila earthquake. They face up to 6 years in jail for their
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 379
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 379 October 21, 2012 Main Topic: Our GEOINT 2012 conversation with Carl Houghton of Intelligent Software Solutions Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 378
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 378 October 14, 2012 Main Topic: GEOINT 2012 conversations Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Geospatial Games and Crowd Sourcing a Catalog
It’s never too early to get kids interested in geospatial technologies and geography. I was searching for a fun gift for a young kid and ran across the Daily Grommet, which is an online catalog that practices what it has termed “Citizen Commerce”. The site uses crowd sourcing to identify products and companies that people
Clever Google Maps Manipulations by Christoph Niemann
Anyone who spends more than an hour around me knows I like clever word manipulations. Yep, I find them punny. Christoph Niemann has just taken this to a whole new level with Clever Google Maps Manipulations. Some of them are funny (like My Way or the Highway) and some of them are pretty nifty visual
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 377
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 377 October 07, 2012 Main Topic: Ann Johnson of Geotech Center and iGETT Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Americans Use A Lot of Gas
There’s so much going on with this article in Jalopnik that I love. Let me break it down for you in rough order. First…. cars and geography and we all know how I feel about those. Second, the point of the article, which is to show we use a lot of gas in the US.
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