Year: 2012
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A fond farewell to Shuttle Discovery
This morning Space Shuttle Discovery left Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its way to its new home at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, and it got a great sendoff […]
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Visuals Relieve Brain Overload
A BBC article, “Pretty Pictures: Can Images Stop Data Overload?” by business reporter, Fiona Graham, supports what many geospatial researchers have argued about the many reasons for business to use […]
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Son Finds Long Lost Family Via Google Earth
As GIS people, we know we do awesome stuff everyday. However, this may ratchet up the awesome to 11… or maybe 12. A Indian man who had been adopted by […]
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World Bank Joins Open Data Movement
The World Bank has announced it will be joining the open data movement as of July 1st. All of its research and associated data will be found on a portal […]
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March the Warmest Month on Record, Seen Visually
March was a crazy warm month. How crazy? Over 15,000 temperature records were broken in the US over the month. Check out the video to see where they happened. If […]
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Zombie Survival Map
Zombies are cool. Period. That’s a non-debatable, empirical fact of current pop culture. Like any good citizen, it helps to know what to do in the case of a zombie […]
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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 351
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 351 April 9, 2012 Our conversation on Earth Day 2012 and Earth Day every day Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download […]
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Google’s Augmented Reality Glasses are HERE…. ish.
Google has begun field tests on their new augmented reality glasses. I have to say, they’re pretty snazzy lookin’ all things considered, especially if you dig the Geordi LaForge look. The […]
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Focusing on the New GIS End-User
We’ve talked in this blog about how mapping in the cloud has gone mainstream. How cloud computing has turned the world of GIS on its head, bringing a flood of […]
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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 350
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 350 April 1, 2012 Our conversation reflecting on 350 episodes of A VerySpatial Podcast! Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC […]
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