It was great to see the shuttle land safely. I have always been a fan of the space shuttle program, ever since I did a class project on the first shuttle launch.
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
HiRise high-resolution camera set to depart for Mars
Continuing my obsession is an article regarding NASA’s new instrument for capturing the martian surface. Please not that they talk about the number of pixels the instrument will collect at a time, but not what the spatial resolution of each pixel will be, which is actually more important for the end-user. The other important information, that could help us determine the spatial resolution of the imagery, is anticipated scale.
HiRise high-resolution camera set to depart for Mars – Engadget – www.engadget.com
Google Maps in Journalism
An interesting perspective on how a Google Maps news link might appear.
Welcome to a new contributor
Frank will be joining us to offer a column on the state of web mapping and any other matters he thinks are relevant to the topic of Geography and geospatial technologies.
Follow-up: Google Earth ‘no security threat’
Here is a follow-up on the Australian security issue…now it isn’t as significant apparently.
Wired News: Riding With the Urban Mappers
An interesting article regarding Amazon’s street imaging in urban areas.
Tech Biz: Where Google’s maps will take us – Aug. 5, 2005
Here is an article from CNNMoney, talking about the implications of online mapping applications like Google Maps
http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/04/technology/techinvestor/tech_biz/index.htm?section=money_latest
“Rant” on Spatially Adjusted
Following the ever growing stream on the current WebMapping boom, James, over at Spatially Adjusted, had some thoughts to share.
Spatially Adjusted – Blog about ESRI and GIS: Google Maps hackers just don’t get it
GPS added to school buses
While the use of GPS to track and route vehicles for corporations such as UPS and FedEx is nothing, it is always nice to see these technologies filter down to an everyday use.
Google urged to drop reactor images
This article from news.com.au that I picked up from SlashDot ties into a topic that we covered in the podcast this week…the concern over what high resolution aerial/satellite imagery is appropriate to release and what is not. The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation is concerned about the easy access to information, in this case imagery, about sites that are considered sensitive. Check out the full article…or wait for next weeks podcast 
Google urged to drop reactor images | Top stories | Breaking News 24/7 – NEWS.com.au (08-08-2005)