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Podcast delayed

Feb 26th, 2012 | By

Sorry folks. The AAG activity has pushed back the release of episode 345 to at least Monday.



A VerySpatial Podcast – Special Episode 62

Feb 23rd, 2012 | By

A conversation with Torsten Wißmann of the Frontline podcast over at Geografree.com. We talk about Geography in Germany and how awesome podcasting about Geography is. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC



Engaging Cities raffle can get you into the Where Conference

Feb 22nd, 2012 | By

The folks over at Engaging Cities are offering up a free registration to this year’s Where Conference. The catch? They want to hear how you have used GIS or LBS to engage citizens. From their post: Have you been involved with a project that utilized GIS or location-based services to engage citizens? We want to [...]



Looking for a few good interviews at the AAG in NY

Feb 15th, 2012 | By

The VerySpatial crew will be at the AAG in New York from Friday, 24 February to Tuesday, 28 February. We have a handful of conversations lined up, but if you would like to sit down with us at the conference to talk about your project, class, product, etc. contact us via email (or twitter or [...]



A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 343

Feb 12th, 2012 | By

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 343 February 12, 2012 Our conversation on finding out about geospatial related policies Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes



Data Fusion Contest

Feb 8th, 2012 | By

The 2012 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest is up and running and something that you should think about participating in. While with ever increasing spatial and spectral resolutions in the variety of imagery and elevation data available now-a-days has reduced the need for certain data fusion products, it is also creating new opportunities to fuse [...]



Video games continue to build on spatial data

Feb 2nd, 2012 | By

As I have said before, fan of geo and fan of games, so when they come together it is better than the sum of the parts. The (long awaited) next installment in the SSX series will bring together one of my favorite franchises with real world elevation models. This preview video released by the creators [...]



A geospatial lab kit…

Jan 30th, 2012 | By

I am sitting at my desk feeling slightly befuddled by my own question…”what would you put in a geospatial lab kit”. I want to move my fall class out of the class/lab regime to have them put feet to grass and get a better sense of the use of maps and data collection. My first [...]



Vexillology…I think I just learned something

Jan 27th, 2012 | By

Yet ANOTHER reason why I love The Big Bang Theory. “I’m surrendering…to fun.” The sad part is that they probably won’t make the 52 promised episodes.



Warrantless GPS tracking unconstitutional

Jan 23rd, 2012 | By

Based on a syllabus from the Supreme Court released on January 23, the use of GPS tracking outside of a warrant is a breach of the Fourth Amendment. As stated in the syllabus: the Government’s physical intrusion on an “effect” for the purpose of obtaining information constitutes a “search.” There seem to be quite a [...]