Geography Education Bill, web soil survey, “Spatial Portals”, and maps.a9.com in the news. Education site in this weeks web feature. Main topic is a discussion on the webmap API wars.
BBC Article – Portal race goes local and global
BBC article on the neverending search engine battle. BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click Online | Portal race goes local and global
Column…the first
Our first column, an introduction to our VerySpatial Classroom column, is now up. This column will probably be a monthly posting for the foreseeable future and it should be joined next weekend by our second column. This month we begin by pointing out that behind all of the geospatial technologies that are drawing interest lies
A GIS Podcast  Hobu, Inc.
Howard Butler has a single podcast episode up on his website. He focuses on the announcements at the ESRI UC and announce on Mapserver. We are still going to claim the first North American Geography podcast, but only by a week Head on over a give Howard a listen at A Podcast  Hobu, Inc.
Cartography
Cartography is the blog for the Canadian Cartographic Association. As you might imagine this site has great links to mapping related websites and technologies. Definitely an informative blog for its first five months and worth an occasional perusal. Cartography
NCSS Web Soil Survey
The NRCS’s Web Soil Survey has finally gone live. I have seen it since its alpha, and it is a good substitution to the hard copy soil reports. The WSS is built on ArcServer and ArcSDE technologies and will continue to grow. Take a look to see what they have implemented and I will try
Spatially Adjusted – Blog about ESRI and GIS: The VerySpatial Podcast
This is our first mention (that I know of) on an outside site. Between getting a few emails and this plug there is a little pressure to make this podcast and blog all it can be. On that note, we hope to have our first column up this weekend, with our second close on its
Couple of notes from Download Squad
Here are a couple of links from Download Squad relating to Yahoo Maps, Google Maps, and VirtualEarth. Take a look. Flash Earth: Google Maps + MSN Virtual Earth + Flash mash-up Yahoo re-launches local search
Download Squad | Terragen: free Bryce knock-off lets you make your own world
This is an article about a Bryce like product. It doesn’t have direct ties to existing real world data, it does allow you to make a lovely, photorealistic, world of your own. Terragen: free Bryce knock-off lets you make your own world
BBC NEWS | Tsunami clue to ‘Atlantis’ found
We have so many choices for Atlantis that you have to wonder whatever happened to Mu…I guess the Indian & Pacific Oceans are just too big. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Tsunami clue to ‘Atlantis’ found
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