A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 271 September 26, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation on perceptions of the future of US earth observation satellite programs Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Mapping the Segregation of US Cities
The Atlantic Wire has a short piece about a series of maps by Eric Fischer detailing racial living in 40 of the largest US cities. Unfortunately the maps are stored on Flickr as flat files, so it’s hard to zoom in and around to see more detail. The basic method appears to get racial information
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 270
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 270 September 19, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation on Geography, geospatial technologies, and STEM education Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
If Google Maps Were Real
Mashable (perhaps one of the cooler sites I visit each day) has a nifty story about an artist who drew Google Maps icons as if they existed in the real world. It’s rather interesting to think about these big push pins existing in real life, or a pop-up box over a building. Take away the
Episode 1 of the Geospatial Revolution Project is now out!
It’s a project we’ve been excited for ever since we first heard about it, and was great to be able to interview some of the Geospatial Revolution Project team, so it’s great to be able to post that Episode 1 is now live on the Geospatial Revolution Project website! The full episode is jut over
Visualizing Average Days Worked and Vacation by Country
I’m a big fan of infographics, so much so that I sometimes find seeing spatial information organized in an non-spatial way (ie a map) to be the clearest way to communicate an idea. This infographic detailing average work week lengths and average vacation days is one of the ones I think really works. The combination
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 269
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 269 September 12, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation on the tensions between research and teaching in higher education Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Urbagrams – Mapping the social city
In order to investigate the idea of a social archipelago, the notion that our cities are “fragmented islands of social activity separated by large areas dedicated to commercial workplaces, flows of vehicles, residential sprawl or industrial sites.” Anil Bawa Cavia analyzed more than a million Foursquare check-ins in a number of cities and mapped those
Raster Challenge
It’s time to put your raster skills to work in time to get a Nintendo DS for the holidays. Crafster, Cooking Mama, and Nintendo DS have announced a contest to create a pixel project of Mama. It is to publicize the new Crafting Mama game in which you are challenged to “Learn 40 different projects
Esri UC 2011 Call for Presentations now open
That’s right, for all you Esri users out there, it’s already time to start thinking about next year’s User Conference. The Call for Presentations is now out over on Esri’s conference website, and abstracts are going to be due on October 15th. So if you’ve got a great GIS project or topic you want to
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