Wendy Nelson of URISA talks about this year’s GIS Pro conference in Portland, September 30 through October 4. Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC
A VerySpatial Evening – a prelude
Last night we had a few folks over to the VerySpatial (rental) condo for a get together. Frank and Barb did most of the cooking (BBQ Chicken, brats, burgers, veggies, corn, deviled eggs, etc…) with Sue as hostess and I was sue chef and dishwasher. We had folks from Esri, Esri Australia, the newly anointed
URISA looks to build management initiative
Apparently, while at the Esri UC, URISA has announced their new Geospatial Management Initiative (GMI). You may recall that we have heard about the Geospatial Management Competency Model (GMCM) that is being developed to join the GTCM to lay out the roles of geospatial professionals. URISA sees the GMI as a way to build a
Landsat Program turns 40
Landsat, the moderate-resolution imagery satellite program that we all know and love, turns forty today. In 1972, Landsat 1 was launched with new technologies that along with its successors would lead the world, over the intervening years, to a better understanding of the environment, human impacts, and, perhaps most importantly today, human/environment interaction. With access
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 366
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 366 July 22, 2012 Main Topic: Gretchen Peterson, Cartographer’s Toolkit Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
All tied up: Remote Sensing
A year after the introductory post to my “All tied up” series I am actually releasing my next post. In the intervening year terms have, if anything, become even more interwoven with many of us often going to the now de facto ‘geospatial technologies’ to explain the wealth of technologies and data that we pull
Like4Trees and A VerySpatial Evening
With only a week to go, I wanted to remind everyone that we are in the last week of our Like4Trees campaign. We will donate $1 per person who has liked the VerySpatial Facebook page by July 25th to the Greenbelt Movement (up to $250). Everyone who likes the Facebook page will also be in
Printable carpet
Seven years ago our first post on VerySpatial.com was a link to an article on Engadget on the aerial image carpet in Sacramento Airport. At the time the article said that it wasn’t really an economical option for the home, but since then it seems that the options have become much more accessible. Have a
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 364
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 364 July 8, 2012 Main Topic: Our conversation on “turning on your spatial light bulb” Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
TomTom throws open doors to MapShare updates
I know I am about a week behind on this, but I am still pretty excited about TomTom’s ever growing utilization of its MapShare database. With the release of regular, free updates of the community provided information this brings not only a boon for the TomTom nav unit customers, but an increasing recognition of, and,
































