Author: Sue

November 30, 2006general, General

Publish Your Own Book with Blurb

If you’ve ever wanted to publish your own book, then Blurb is for you. I tried this service and jsut received my very own hard-cover book of our family history. […]
November 30, 2006general, WebMapping

VirtualCity Toronto – a cool combo of Google Maps and street level photos

I really liked A9’s Block Level street photos that let you see what the central areas of various cities were like, and we actually used them a few times to […]
November 28, 2006General, general

Around the World with the Airbus A380

If you’ve ver wanted to know how a new commercial aircraft gets its final certification, you’ll love this really neat little website, which is documenting the route proving trials of […]
November 25, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments

IBM funding 3D internet project

I am starting to catch up on some things I’ve missed while we were getting ready for the SEDAAG conference, and this project is one I’m really interested in. An […]
November 21, 2006Events, general

Wrapping up our regional SEDAAG conference

We are sitting in a panel this morning on geospatial technology curricula in Higher Education. It has been interesting to hear senior faculty members discuss how GIS got started in […]
November 18, 2006general, Physical Geography

Redrawing the Map of Ancient Earth

I saw this MSNBC article and thought it would be great to highlight for the last day of Geography Awareness Week,since we hadn’t done too much on Physical Geography. Apparently […]
November 16, 2006general, GIS_Software

ArcGIS Explorer Update

This afternoon, we talked with ESRI’s Bern Szukalski about ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Explorer. We had a chance to listen to Bern’s ESRI Speaker Series interview this morning before interviewing […]
November 16, 2006general, GIS_Software, VirtualWorlds

Geospatial Technology and Google Earth helping Amazon Natives

One of our listeners, Steve, sent a link to this great article about how Amazon Indians are using GPS, GIS, and Google Earth to help map their homeland in the […]
November 14, 2006Events, general, GeographyAwareness

The Weather Network in Canada highlighting GAW and GIS Day

It’s great to hear that Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day are getting some TV promotion up in Canada. The Weather Network, Canada’s weather channel, is including references to GAW […]
November 13, 2006Events, general, VirtualWorlds

Start off Geography Awarness Week with the Google Earth Africa quiz

If you want to test your knowledge of Africa, this year’s Geography Awareness Week theme, head over to My Wonderful World and check out their Google Earth quiz. There are […]