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GPS – For All The Points
We don’t feature Real Life Comics that often, but it’s a funny comic and worth a read… especially today 🙂 Plus, I’ve met Greg Dean (the artist) at a con […]
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LightSquared to Impact 75% of GPS Receivers…. maybe
Here’s some bad news for LightSquared – looks like their system will negatively impact the overwhelming majority of GPS receivers currently in operation, based upon a leak of a test […]
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Cool Stuff, general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial), WebMapping
Conserving the Night Sky
Is your portion of the night sky polluted by artificial light? Â Check out this really slick Google Map interface I found on the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) web site . […]
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Flash Player Dead for Mobile
Adobe announced today they are killing development of a mobile flash player. Is this the death call for flash? Maybe not, but it certainly is a serious blow. We all […]
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It’s HERE! It’s Finally HERE!
Just in time for my switch to the iOS platform. ESRI has finally released ArcGIS for Android! If you’re on the Android platform, head over to the Android Marketplace and […]
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Galileo taking the stage
While this week’s launch of two of the satellites for the Galileo constellation there has been quite a bit of information ramping up for the yet unusable system. BUT with […]
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NASA Updates Topographic Maps
NASA has teamed with Japan’s Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center to create a new topographic map covering 99% of the Earth’s landmass. The maps are created using two sets […]
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Contest, LostInTheVirtualFog, VirtualEnvironments
First Annual Sketch Up Halloween Challenge
Sketch Up has announced their first annual Halloween Challenge. You can pick three categories: 1:Jack 0’Lantern, 2: Haunted House, 3: Both together. You need to fill out a challenge submission […]
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Cool Stuff, space (not spatial), VirtualEnvironments
Search For Life on Mars
Ok, not Mars. Not just yet, at least. Researchers have created really cool science project called MAPPER. The idea is to leverage citizen scientists to comb through data and find […]
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NRO desclassifies 2 satellite series
Wind up the hoopla as, on September 17th, the NRO declassified the GAMBIT and HEXAGON series satellites. Gizmodo has an interesting photo collection while over on the NRO website there […]
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