For those educators out there in the audience, you might be interested in VirtualGlobes promotional give-away of a one-year subscription to EarthSim. I wasn’t aware that EarthSim existed until yesterday, so I can’t offer a review of it just yet, so head over to the VirtualGlobes.org site to find out more about the give-away and EarthSim.
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 413
Book Corner: Programming ArcGIS 10.1 with Python Cookbook
A VerySpatial Evening 2013 – Details
A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 412
Space Between My Ears – The Geography of Cars
Category Archives: GeographyBlogs
Links to other blogs that discuss Geography and geospatial technologies.
Slashgeo’s Anniversary
I forgot to mention it on this weeks podcast, but I do want to wish everyone at Slashgeo a happy anniversary and many more to come. I may not contribute as much as I could, but I think that Slashgeo is a great resource and I encourage everyone to check it out and join in.
AVSP Forum going away – links to other great forums
Those of you who have accounts on our forums probably received a notice of a private message on Thursday. Since the spam has spread beyond the forums themselves and since we haven’t had a lot of traffice since the first week, we are making them go away.
We still think that forums are a great way to communicate and we recommend you check out some of the forums that are out there including:
CartoTalk - A pulic forum for Cartography and Design
GIS Forums – Forum covering GIS and geospatial technologies
Delphi GIS Forums – Another forum covering GIS and geospatial technologies
GeoCommunity – GIS Discussions
MapForums – Forum based around MapPoint
PPGIS.net – Open forum on Participatory GIS and technologies
About.com Geography Forums – covers a wide range of Geography topics
GeographyForum.net – Geography forum for primarily for UK teachers
Talk Geography – General discussion about geography
GISUser - active forums on geospatial technologies
Farallon Podcast talks mashups
Apparently the guys over at Farallon had the same thought that we did for their last podcast as they speak on Mashups the same week we revisit the Webmap APIs. Once you finish listening to our Episode 59 make sure to go over to the http://www.fargeo.com/podcasts to get a business perspective on the topic.
Also be sure to check out a couple of our overseas friends, Geografia Para Llevar and Where It’s At podcasts, who also released new episodes recently.
GISnation has a home
While Kyle says they aren’t heading for your iPod yet as they are going to use YouTube for now, they have a home to help keep up with the new geospatial video. Add gisnation.wordpress.com to your RSS aggregator to keep track.
GISnation 001 – let the video flow
A new addition to the geo video podcasting world is GISnation. I haven’t been able to find a related web page in the last 2 minutes, but I will keep looking. Until then you can check out the video on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENmrfz1hYxY
I want to talk to these people! 
Air Pollution Monitoring Via….Pigeons
Who knew avians could be so high tech? A new study of real-time air pollution is being undertaken using, of all things, pigeons. Little monitors are strapped to the backs of the pigeons and data is beamed back to Earth and published on the web in real time. Apparently the data will be available in blog format for anyone to see/use.
I’m pretty proud of the work we do here at Very Spatial, but I’m not sure we can compete with a Pigeon Blog. That’s just too cool.
Farallon Geographics podcast
We missed one of the recent additions to the GIS podcast community. Farallon Geographics has released 2 podcasts (one in early Feb, the other in late March) under the title ‘GIS and Location Technology’. I will come back and write more as soon as I get a chance to listen to an episode, until then check it out yourself at Farallon Geographics News & Press or through iTunes and I am sure other fine podcast directories.
Update: The first episode is great. Folks sitting around a table talking about technology. Definitely give this one a try.
Where It’s At Episode 4
The newest episode of Where It’s At includes some ideas we could have included in our AAG panel. It is a live presentation they made in February where they discuss the importance of communication in the geospatial community where they address Wikipedia, some of the general podcast bits and a new term ‘whereability’.
Geografia Para Llevar – un podcast extraordinario
Es verdad…this week we saw the introduction of ANOTHER geography podcast. I am very excited about this one since, as far as I know, it is the first non-english Geography podcast. I am also excited since it will give me a reason to listen to Spanish and hopefully remember some of what I have forgotten in the last 10 years (not that I knew much ). Check out Geografia Para Llevar for their first episode and also look at iTunes if you would like to subscribe.