Show notes for AVSP Episode 28

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 28
January 29, 2006

Main Topic: Community GIS
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Music

This podsafe weeks music was “Talk Like a Man” by Geoffrey C Smith

News

• Most Earthlike Planet Detected
• Landsat 5
• Japan Launches Mapping Satellite
• China to spend Millions to Survey Great Wall

WebCorner

• Pleistocene Park

MainTopic
A Community GIS
Spawned from an entry on Ed Parsons’ blog – http://www.edparsons.com/?p=155

• Community GIS – Information/data provided by the community
• Community Mapping – mapping locations of members of a community
• Community Integrated GIS – experts supporting communities through the use of GIS

Of course this all ties into Sue’s User Augmented Mapping, but Frank and Sue coined new phrases this week that we edited out to keep the podcast under 45 minutes.

• Geographic Virtual Communities (Frank)
• Spatially Aware Virtual eCommunities (SAVE) (Sue)

Events

• ESRI Fed User Conference
  Washington, DC
  Jan 31-Feb 2
• MapServer Foundation meeting
  Chicago
  February 4
• GITA Annual Conference
  Tampa, FL
  April 23-26
• MapWorld 2006
  Phoenix
  May 2-4