A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 177

A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 177
December 7, 2008

Main Topic: Our conversation about man-made fantasy landscapes

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Music

News

• MapServer 5.2.1
• Mars Science Lab launch delayed until 2001
• Urban Mapping debuts off street parking database for US cities
• Holocaust Museum launching Kristallnacht exhibit in Second Life

Web Corner

• NUS Library 3D interior map with Google Earth API

  Main topic

• This week we talk about man-made fantasy landscapes like the mega-casinos in Vegas and how they reflect notions about place

Tip of the Week

• Google Earth API and browser plug-ins

Events

• Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers: 7-9 January, Granada, Nicaragua
• Map World Forum 2009: 10-13 February, Hyderabad, India
• GEOINFORMATIK 2009: 31 March – 2 April, Osnabruck, Germany
• AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science: 2-5 June, Hannover, Germany

This week A Very Spatial Podcast is sponsored by ESRI.
Save the date for the 2008 ESRI Business GIS Summit, May 4-6 in Denver, Colorado. Be part of this one-of-a-kind forum by submitting your work to share your GIS experiences and knowledge with other business professionals and industry leaders. The deadline to submit an abstract is January 23, 2009. For more information or to submit your work visit www.esri.com/bizsummit