Author: Frank
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Gadgets, general, Human Geography, Navigation, Remote Sensing
Cops Can’t Track Car with GPS Without Warrent
The Electronic Frontier Foundation had an interesting piece about two weeks ago that I just ran across. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts recently ruled that it is against their state constitution for […]
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EGNOS Goes Active
The precursor to the EU’s Galileo satellite positioning, EGNOS is now live for 27 EU states! The basic idea behind the system is to take the US’s GPS system and […]
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general, Human Geography, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
California Fires from Space
In case you haven’t seen this around, BoingBoing.net has a nice link round up for NASA’s photos of the current California fires as seen from space. The smoke cloud is […]
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general, Human Geography, Physical Geography
Eight Most Dangerous Places to Live on the Planet
If danger is your middle name and you like to eat, breath, and sleep in danger, then you might want to check out this Popular Mechanics article. Whether you like […]
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Want more jobs in the US? Get rural broadband
Here’s an interesting bit of geographic news from the USDA – rural counties with broadband tend to have more jobs and those jobs are better paying. Another fascinating finding is […]
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general, Human Geography, Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing Used to Discover Ancient Roman Site
Really, what CAN’T geospatial do? Researchers out of University of Padua in Italy took aerial photos of an area just north of Venice and discovered what used to be Altinum, […]
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Eye-Fi SD Card Adds Geotagging to Pics
Engadget is reporting the release of Eye-Fi’s new WiFi enabled SD card. It provided automatic geotagging for life for all your pictures. The product is designed specifically to work with […]
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Some thoughts on making the UC better
The ESRI sessions are a great place to really see what the people in our field are doing. The diversity is really inspiring. Occasionally I’ll get the random person who’ll […]
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ESRI UC Day 2 Roundup – Couple of Sessions
I caught a few sessions and two in particular I thought were worth taking notes. The first is about return on investments and calculating them for government. Ultimately the presentations […]
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ESRI Live Blogging of Plenary
Live blogging – all times PST and I’ll try to get pictures up as quick as possible. 8:39 – Meet the people around you. I met a nice guy from […]
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