Adam DuVander over at O’Reilly has written a decent summation article on the current state of mapping apis in the world. It’s a short read and highlights some issues, but I think the more important take-away is the lack of cross pollination between geographers and internet mappers. He doesn’t even discuss ESRI’s api, for instance, and it
Virtual Tourism = Real Tourism
The Wall Street Journal has an article that highlights the money to be made in the convergence of real places and their virtual counterparts in games. Much like many seaside resort towns the beautiful Atami hot springs used to be Japan’s honeymoon spot but due to competition from Hawaii and Australia was experiencing a serious
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 268
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 268 September 5, 2010 Main Topic: Our Esri UC conversations with Velodyne, Topcon, and Latitude Geographics Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Great video introduction to the National Map
One of the fun things I get to do in prepping for my classes is getting to look at all the amazing video resources out on the interwebs for Geography and geospatial technologies. While putting together my Intro to Mapping lecture, I remembered this great 6-minute video introduction to the National Map, including a little
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 267
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 267 August 29, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversations with Christopher Cretini of the USGS Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Visualization of Tabular Data
FlowingData is a fun website created by a Ph.D candidate in statistics that “explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better – mainly through data visualization”. If you think statistics is a dry topic, its probably because you haven’t seen this website. It’s amazing what decent data visualization does
NASA Earth Science Hurricane Katrina retrospective
To mark the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating landfall in the Gulf Coast, NASA Earth Science has released this short video retrospective of some of the imagery and analyses that were used to track and visualize Hurricane Katrina
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 266
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 266 August 22, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversations with Mike Dana of Wacom and Eric Walden of Microsoft Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
Video preview of ArcGIS Explorer 1500
Via the Esri Developer Network Facebook page is a hip preview video for the upcoming ArcGIS Explorer 1500, complete with catchy music (Sorry the video isn’t set up to embed, so just click the image below to go to the video) -
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