Month: June 2007
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TvTrip – find a hotel on the map and see it on video
OK, now I know there are a lot of sites out there that map hotel and lodging information for trip planning, but I just had to do a quick post […]
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Desktop Geotagging done right…Magrathea
We have mentioned MapMemo before, but I thought it was missing that little something (geographic coordinates). Caffeinated Cocoa has rolled out a great little desktop app for the Mac called […]
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Education, Events, general, GIS_Software
Service at Sea – taking GIS around the world
While we were at the ESRI UC, we had a chance to talk with Drew Stephens, who is the founder of a great program called Service at Sea. The idea […]
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Friendly Floaties
If you haven’t ever heard of this really fantastic story of the “friendly floaties” you need to check it out. Oceanographers have been tracking the bathtub toys for over fifteen […]
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general, LBS, VirtualEnvironments, VirtualWorlds, WebMapping
Technology Review talks Second Earth
The online version of the latest issue (July/August 2007) of Technology Review has a fairly comprehensive article by Wade Roush about Second Life, virtual globes, social mapping, and the prospects […]
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Fun LBS discussion
The folks over at MacBreak Weekly had a fun discussion on LBS, GPS, etc at around 35 minutes in episode 45. The discussion starts with a rumor of an Apple […]
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Mapping your every move at work….for your own good, of course
If you didn’t already feel as if you’re every move is now being tracked and turned into someone else’s data, then check out Hitachi, Ltd.’s new employee ID and sensor […]
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Second anniversary contest – last week
Don’t forget that you have until 11:59PM Pacific Daylight Time on July 2 to answer any of the 5 contest questions we have posted over the last 5 weeks. For […]
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general, General, GIS_Software
Where is Geobuntu?
I’ve been playing around with a new distribution of Linux called Ubuntu Studio. It’s a pretty cool OS distribution because it includes lots of applications for video, audio, and graphics […]
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general, Human Geography, WebMapping
Find Recycling Near You
I ran across this site today via Digg – Find your local Recycling station! I checked our area and the data is rather mediocre at best. It has the commercial […]
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