Month: May 2011
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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 306
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 306 May 31, 2011 Main Topic: Direction of GIS Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes
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AugmentedReality, Cartography, Cool Stuff, Education, general, Human Geography
Animated Maps on Memorial Day Weekend
On this memorial day weekend the History Channel is kicking off a week of Civil War themed shows. While watching I thought I’d see if there were any interesting maps […]
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New Pyramids Found Through Remote Sensing
Finding new pyramids in Egypt! Apparently a team out of NASA used IR cameras to find underground rooms of 17 new pyramids. It also found 1,000 tombs and 3,000 new […]
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Education, Environmental, general
Cicadas, Locusts, and Mapping
Throughout history, cicada and locusts have produced fascination, food, and frustration, among other f words. The Cicada Mania site “Dedicated to cicadas, the most amazing insects in the world.” provides […]
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Call for presentations, AAG 2012 session
With the AAG taking place in February next year, the call for papers will close earlier than usual (Sept 28). Due to this earlier timeline I am putting out a […]
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VerySpatial TV 43 – Frank @ AAG’11
Frank Lafone discusses his poster and project at the 2011 Association of American Geographers conference in Seattle. Click here to download VSTV Episode 43 full size (132 MB) Click here […]
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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 305
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 305 May 22, 2011 Main Topic: The intersection of touch and mobile Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for […]
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AugmentedReality, Cool Stuff, VirtualEnvironments
Sony SmartAR – markerless augmented reality
Augmented reality is one of those technologies that has seemed like it would be next big thing for the last couple of years, but it has proven pretty difficult to […]
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How to Read a Map
Found a fun little video that shows that while we have come a long way, we are trying to share the same ideas now that we were a few decades […]
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Cool Stuff, space (not spatial)
Endeavor’s last launch is picture perfect
I’ve already posted my thoughts on the approaching end of NASA’s space shuttle program, but Endeavor‘s last launch this morning went off perfectly, and reminded me once again how amazing […]
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