Author: Sue

April 9, 2007Education, general, VirtualEnvironments, VirtualWorlds, WebMapping

Microsoft announces Virtual Earth and SensorMap grant competition winners

Microsoft has awarded over $1.1 million in grants to winners in their Virtual Earth and SensorMap grant competitions. The SensorMap project include work on Harvard’s CitySense project, which will utilize […]
April 4, 2007general, Programming/Dev, WebMapping

Getting Started with Google Maps and ASP .NET

For those of you who are developers and work with ASP .NET, you might be interested in a nice article from the WebSphere Journal site written by Jeevan Murkoth that […]
April 2, 2007general, Remote Sensing

HDView – Gigapixel panorama photo viewer

The capture and use of ultra high resolution images is really only at the beginning stages, and one of the issues of course is how to let people actually see […]
April 1, 2007general, GIS_Software

Ordnance Survey podcast on Integrated Transport Network Layer

In a recently-released podcast, Gavin Jackman of the Ordnance Survey discusses the Ordnance Survey’s MasterMap Integrated Transport Network (ITN) Layer, and explains how the road data are represented. There is […]
March 29, 2007general, General

Meosphere – where it’s all about you

That’s right, it IS all about me in the Meosphere. While surfing the web this morning instead of finishing my work, I came across Meosphere, a site that rolled out […]
March 27, 2007Events, general

Virtual Worlds 2007 Fall conference

We recently had a chance to talk to Chris Sherman, the organizer of the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference taking place this week in New York. He mentioned that the conference […]
March 21, 2007general, LBS, Navigation

GPS-based Workforce Management launched by AT&T

While taking a break at the Dev Summit, I was catching up on tech news and noticed that yesterday AT&T launched their new GPS-based workforce management service, TeleNav Track, which […]
March 13, 2007general, General

An overview of NAVTEQ’s global business strategy

George Filley of Chicago-based NAVTEQ did a short Q & A with Michael Muth for MidWestBusiness.com, and I found it to be a good general overview of NAVTEQ’s organizational structure […]
March 9, 2007general, General, GeographyAwareness

New Climates – a weblog art exhibition on climate change and networked culture

The New Climates project is a cool example of the use of New Media to create and disseminate artwork that explores the relationship between art, global climate change and networked […]
March 8, 2007Cartography, general, Remote Sensing

LIMA – Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica

I’m not sure when this actually was actually first made available, but today I saw the press release about the USGS’ Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA), which was generated […]