Google Japan Street View – a magical behind-the-scenes tour
Mar 19th, 2010 | By SueSaw this whimsical little video on Gizmodo, and had to share. In Japan, everything is cooler, and Google Street View is no exception!
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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 243
Mar 14th, 2010 | By SueA VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 243
March 14, 2010
Main Topic: Our conversation with Brian Wienke of Accela
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Bizarre Map Challenge
Mar 12th, 2010 | By SueFor all you students out there whose maps are greeted with a “That’s bizarre…”, I’ve got the perfect map challenge for you! Our reader Keith M. sent us a heads up about the Bizarre Map Challenge, a map design competition open to high school, college, and university students (only here in the US). The maps [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 242
Mar 7th, 2010 | By SueA VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 242
March 7, 2010
Main Topic: Our conversation with Peter Adams of ESRI Press
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Popular Science Archive now online – and free!
Mar 4th, 2010 | By SueYes, that’s right, 137 years of awesome issues of Popular Science magazine are now available online by searching the archive at the PopSci website. If you’re a science or gadget nerd, you’ll have lots of fun checking out the science frontiers of decades gone by, and even checking out the advertising and graphics styles for [...]
Transforming the Urban Landscape – Cheonggyecheon Stream Restoration
Mar 2nd, 2010 | By SueI’m always a fan of projects that transform decaying manmade structures and features into revitalized green spaces, and I saw this great example from Seoul, Korea. This project is even cooler because a river that runs directly through Seoul had been buried years before underneath the highway, and when the road was demolished for the [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 241
Feb 28th, 2010 | By SueA VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 241
February 28, 2010
Main Topic: Our conversation about time and remote sensing
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MIT students create 3D relief interface
Feb 26th, 2010 | By SueNowadays, when we think about research into 3D interfaces, it’s usually referring to work done on trying to get real objects to display in 3D in a computer. But check out this cool project, called Relief, created by MIT students to read digital relief data and create a physical 3D model. It uses an array [...]
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 240
Feb 21st, 2010 | By SueA VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 240
February 21, 2010
Main Topic: Part 2 of our conversation with the organizers of the 2010 GeoDesign Summit
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GPS Adventures at the Maryland Science Center
Feb 19th, 2010 | By SueDan at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore emailed to let us know that GPS Adventures, a traveling exhibit all about GPS and geocaching, will be opening tomorrow, February 20th and will be running until April 18th.
GPS Adventures gives visitors an introduction to GPS technology and the basics of navigation in general, and offers [...]
