Wired magazine is hosting a new geoblog from Bruce Sterling. However, there is a twist in that this is the blog of a fictional character named Harvey Feldspar and it takes place in the year 2017. For those unware of Sterling’s work, he’s a fairly prolific science fiction writer (particularly of short stories). A lot [...]
Much like Direction Media’s discussion on the Intergraph acquisition, they bring up quite a few ideas in their weekly podcast around the MapInfo acquisition. Definitely worth a listen.
ESRI has made a few preconference interviews available on the website for those who can’t make it to the Dev Summit and to help those attending decide what to check out at the conference (great airplane fodder for those of flying to Palm Springs). Next week we will have a few podcasts with presenters and [...]
We have a possible time for a geoblogger meet-up (and possibly showoff) at the AAG in San Francisco on Wednesday evening. There is going to be Spatial Technology Gallery (a la Where Fair) and Alan suggested that this might be a good time to meet-up. I like this idea since it would give us a [...]
I was over on the ESRI support center site looking for something this morning and noticed that there is now a Support Center News Blog on the ESRI blog site. There is just an intro post so far, but we will see how it grows. ESRI Support Center News
The folks over at Twingly (non-English site) have created what may be the world’s coolest screen saver. It basically reports blog activity around the world in real or near real time. Here’s the YouTube clip of the application working. I haven’t downloaded it (mostly because I can’t read what I believe to be Swedish), but [...]
Leszek Pawlowicz emailed to let us know that he has started a new blog this week, called Free Geographic Information Tools, where he will be talking about, of course, free and inexpensive tools for GIS and geospatial applications. As he puts it in his first post on Wednesday: “I’ve decided to start regurgitating some of [...]
While the term neogeography is generally related to Platial or the Placekraft blog, there is a new site at neogeography.net that looks at the idea and is an open conversation about neogeography and related ideas. Check it out and share in the discussion.
The ASPRS has announced officially something we heard about when we talked to them at the ESRI UC. They have added a ‘provisional’ status to their certification programs primarily to allow students to begin the certification process by taking the exam before they have the required professional experience. This is a great opportunity for students [...]
As I am sure many of you have read Google dropped 1.6 BILLION dollars for YouTube. We at the VerySpatial “office” are of different minds on the acquisition, but that isn’t really important to the geospatial world other than the question…what will GISNation do now that Google owns the two systems they have used for [...]
