Author: Sue

• April 16, 2008Cool Stuff, general

  Our first Smart Car sighting

  As we were making the long, long trek from the Extended Parking area at Pittsburgh International Airport on Saturday, we got a chance to see a real Smart Car just […]

• April 8, 2008Contest, general

  Our Earth Day Contest – Question 3

  This is the last question in our Earth Day Contest, but for those of you who haven’t had a chance to answer the first two questions, you can find them […]

• April 6, 2008general, Podcast, Show Notes

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 142

  A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 142 April 6, 2008 Main Topic: Joe Francica of Directions Media talks with us about Location Intelligence 2008 Click to directly download MP3 Click […]

• April 6, 2008general, Hardware

  Sensisphere – curved touch surface

  Two University of Augsberg students, Benjamin Mayer and Martin Spengler, have developed a hemispherical touch display surface they call Sensisphere. Think Microsoft Surface, TouchTable, and other gesture-based displays, only curved. […]

• April 2, 2008Events, general

  Mapping the Human Experience

  Designers Colin Kloecker and Troy Gallas, of Solutions Twin Cities, have put together a cool new multimedia exhibit at the Sandy Agustin Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It’s W(e are )here: […]

• April 1, 2008Contest, general

  Our Earth Day Contest – Question 2

  We introduced our Earth Day Contest in last week’s podcast episode, but for those of you who haven’t had a chance to listen yet, we will be asking three questions, […]

• March 31, 2008general, General

  First Bird’s Eye imagery, now Fish-Eye views

  Japanese company ALPSLAB has come up with a new function for zooming in to an area on its online mapping interface – a “Fish-Eye” view that acts like a magnifying […]

• March 28, 2008Events, general, GeographyAwareness

  Earth Hour – turning out the lights to help the planet

  Earth Hour is nearly upon us. On this Saturday evening, March 29th, at 8pm (your local time), you just turn your lights out for an hour. That’s it, that’s all […]

• March 27, 2008general, General

  Maps As Art and Fashion

  These cool artworks by a French artist living in London, Elisabeth Lecourt, show that not only can maps tell us where we are and help us find our way, they […]

• March 26, 2008Contest, general

  Our Earth Day Contest – Question 1

  We introduced our Earth Day Contest in this week’s podcast episode, but for those of you who haven’t had a chance to listen yet, we will be asking three questions, […]