Author: Jesse

Jesse is an Assistant Professor in Geography with research focusing on the integration of phenomenology and geospatial technologies to study prehistoric cultural landscape. He is a GIS Professional and Registered Professional Archaeologist and holds a PhD and MA in Geography and a BS in Anthropology with a concentration in archaeology.

October 12, 2005General, WebMapping

“data providers do hold all the cards just now”

Adena over at AllPointsBlog states “While we try to understand the implications of the new offerings [from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!], letÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s not forget that geospatial apps run on data […]
October 10, 2005General, Physical Geography

ScienCentral: Earthquake Forecasts

An article over at ScienCentral discusses the use of simulations to determine the probability of earthquakes along the California coast. More of a Geology topic, but interesting non-the-less. ScienCentral: Earthquake […]
October 10, 2005GIS_Software

GIS Long Tail

James over at Spatially Adjusted comments on an article by Dave Bouwman that discusses the differences in the user bases between the traditional GIS software and the new web map […]
October 10, 2005General

Yahoo! Podcasts

Yahoo! has joined the podcast search community with there new Yahoo! Podcasts Beta. This works fairly well and looks like it is trying to be the Technorati for podcasts. Yahoo! […]
October 9, 2005Show Notes

Show notes for AVSP Episode 12

VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 12 October 09, 2005 Main Topic: Geographic education in mid career and interdisciplinary shift in Geography Click for the detailed shownotes
October 9, 2005Podcast

A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 12

Main topic: Geographic education ramblings. News: Census outsourcing, Digital Globe satellites, Google Local, Shapefiles in VE
October 8, 2005Groups

Associations/Groups – The Canadian Association Of Geographers

The Canadian Association of Geographers is the main professional organization for Geographers from the public and private sectors in Canada. They are active in disseminating geographic research and promoting geographic […]
October 7, 2005Show Notes

Show notes for AVSP Episode 11

VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 11 October 02, 2005 Main Topic: Global warming Click for the detailed shownotes
October 7, 2005WebMapping

Putting Shapefiles into Virtual Earth

We received an email from a Redmond employee who created a Virtual Earth shapefile loader. This has been pointed to by several sites including James at Spatially Adjusted. If I […]
October 4, 2005General

RSS Aggregator vs visiting site

I have gone back and forth between using an aggregator (currently SharpReader) and just going to the web sites of my various sites. The great thing about an aggregator is […]