A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 392
January 21, 2013

Main Topic: Some thoughts on our changing world and the flow of information

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Music

This week’s podsafe music: “Living Life” by Chris Monaghan






News

National Park Service rolls out new Park Tiles basemap

Wikipedia Foundation rolls out WikiVoyage travel site

FME 2013 released

China will require use of BeiDou on some commercial vehicles

Landsat news

–Web-Enabled Landsat Data (WELD)

–Watch LDCM launch prep (Java required)

Esri phasing out complimentary use of Bing Maps



Web Corner

US Census Bureau Data Visualization Gallery



Main topic

This week, we feature our conversation touching on our rapidly changing world, including political geography, and how the new ways that we can get information impact our perspectives on those changes.



Tip of the week

Windows 8 upgrade price going up on Feb. 1st, 2013 – get your $39.99 upgrade now



Events Corner

Geonext 2013: 27 February, Sydney, Australia

GEO-North: 7 March, Bolton, UK

GEO-South: 1-2 May, London, UK

GI-Forum: 2-5 July, Salzburg, Austria

GeoGathering: 21-22 August, Colorado Springs, CO