A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 385
December 2, 2012
Main Topic: Our 2012 Geographer’s Holiday preview
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Music
This week’s podsafe music: “Greensleeves” by Derek Miller
News
Autodesk announcements:
–Cloud – Fusion 360
–Mobile – FormIt App
–Business – Topcon Collaboration
Amazon opens up Maps API
SpatiaLite 4.0
South African team to map Petra ruins
UN votes to recognize a Palestinian state and upgrade the status of Palestine to nonmember observer state
Web Corner
CartoDB by Vizzuality
Main Topic
This week we feature our 2012 Geographer’s Holiday preview, with some gift ideas for geography lovers of all ages. Check out some of our choices below:
Directionally-minded gifts from the Compass Company
Datarific gift ideas via Flowing Data
Give the gift of trees!
Tip of the Week
Donate to help the upgrade of PlanetGeospatial
Events Corner
URISA Vanguard Cabinet events
SURE World Conference: 25-27 July, Berlin, Germany
9th European Social Simulation Association: 16-20 Sept, Warsaw, Poland
NCGE Annual Conference: 1-4 August, Denver, CO
Applied Geography Conference: 30 October-1 November, Annapolis, MD
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Just wanted to correct that before Thursday, Palestine, as an arab state never existed. Before 1948 it was a British mandate zone (protectorate) and between 1948-1967 it’s areas were under Jordanian and Egyptian rule.