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Mar 14th, 2010 |
By Sue
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 243
March 14, 2010
Main Topic: Our conversation with Brian Wienke of Accela
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Mar 12th, 2010 |
By Sue
For 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 [...]
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Mar 11th, 2010 |
By Frank
Apparently lots of people have been asking Google for biking directions and now they get their wish! The directions get added right along with the driving and walking directions we’ve all come to know and love. They’ve even added the ability to avoid hills (good luck with that in West Virginia)! Like the walking [...]
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Mar 10th, 2010 |
By Frank
This is a pretty cool example of a map that shows aspatial information – the Rock and Roll Metro Map. It looks like a metro map, showing the connections between various rock artists. You’ve gotta love the combination of two of my favorite things – maps and music.
You can quibble with a few of [...]
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Mar 9th, 2010 |
By Frank
Wired news is reporting that modern GPS sensors have be able to determine the Chilean city of Concepcion has been moved 10 feet to the west from the recent earthquake. Apparently this area is prime area for seismic activity due to its location over a subduction zone. The hope by researchers is to quickly get more GPS stations on the [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Physical Geography, archive |
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Mar 8th, 2010 |
By Jesse
Today at lunch we were kicking around some ideas on connecting various content with other content or to a location in a user friendly way and I couldn’t get past the thought of a touch interface. The problem is that we are still tied predominantly to a few things in the tech arena that makes [...]
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Mar 7th, 2010 |
By Sue
A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 242
March 7, 2010
Main Topic: Our conversation with Peter Adams of ESRI Press
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Mar 6th, 2010 |
By Barb
Oscar time is here and several news sources have stories about vacationing in your favorite movie setting. The Telegraph UK article “Oscars 2010: film location holidays” explores locations of this year’s Oscar-nominated films such as Avatar,District 9, Precious, and Crazy Heart. Film induced tourism is a growing tourism draw according to books such as [...]
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Mar 4th, 2010 |
By Sue
Yes, 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 [...]
Posted in Education, GeographyAwareness, archive |
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Mar 2nd, 2010 |
By Sue
I’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 [...]
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