Author: Sue

February 1, 2007general, GIS_Software, Human Geography

NPR discusses Philadelphia GIS project

NPR’s Day to Day featured a piece on a GIS project conducted by Amy Hillier of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Prof. Hillier’s research mapped low-income neighborhoods in […]
January 31, 2007general, General

Firefox plugin for Microsoft’s Photosynth Tech Preview

I don’t know how I managed to miss this last week, but the Photosynth team has released a Firefox plugin for the Photosynth tech preview. I just tried it out, […]
January 31, 2007general, General

Remains of village found near Stonehenge

You’ve probably already read or seen the news about archaeologists’ discovery and excavation of a neolithic village site at Durrington Walls (site of the world’s largest henge) on the Salisbury […]
January 27, 2007general, General

Blawg – you one-stop shop for those hip blogging and podcasting lawyers

Yeah, I was catching up on the ViaVirtualEarth blog, and they mentioned a new mashup called Blawg and, of course, I had to check it out. I mean, lawyers blogging….and […]
January 25, 2007Cartography, general

Want to find your way around the NYC subway – consult your condom wrapper

New York City distributes approximately 1.5 million condoms each month in regular wrappers, but is still faced with large numbers of people who are contracting STDs and HIV. In an […]
January 24, 2007avsp, general

Only one week left in our latest contest

yes, that’s right, you only have until next wednesday, January 31st, to enter our latest contest – “Show Us Your Heritage!” We’ve promoted this contest more on the podcast than […]
January 22, 2007general, LBS, WebMapping

GIS for your BlackBerry

I ran across a press release today for TDC Group’s Freeance Mobile, a suite of web mapping and database applications that promises to bring GIS to your BlackBerry. Freeance Mobile […]
January 19, 2007general, VirtualEnvironments

PacketGarden – use your web surfing to grow your own virtual world

PacketGarden is a cool application (still in beta) that grows your own virtual world based on your internet activity. PacketGarden uses information about your internet use to generate this private […]
January 18, 2007general, General

People who write computer viruses suck

Yes, we all know it, but today seems like a good day to reiterate that sentiment, as we desperately work to get our Geography and GIS lab computers up and […]
January 17, 2007Cartography, general, Physical Geography

Melting ice in the Arctic revealing new coastline geography in Greenland

The New York Times has another article on the impacts of global warming, this one discusses how the melting of glacial ice is exposing new land area and changing our […]