Author: Sue

July 20, 2006Events, general

O’Reilly’s 8th Annual OSCON – Open Source Convention

I don’t think we’ve mentioned it yet, but O’Reilly’s OSCON 2006 will be going on in Portland, OR starting Monday, July 24th and running through Friday, July 28th. Sessions are […]
July 18, 2006general, Human Geography

How about a little music with your geography

National Geographic has launched National Geographic World Music, a new music store that lets users explore and purchase world music. The site includes content from the National Geographic Channel and […]
July 17, 2006general, space (not spatial)

Discovery lands safely

Just checked out CNN and the space shuttle Discovery landed safely at Kennedy Space Center in Florida a little while ago. I’m still a fan of the shuttle program, so […]
July 15, 2006general, GIS_Software

UPS route software helps lower fuel consumption

You’ve probably never thought much about it, but left turns cost you more in fuel consumption as you idle waiting for a light to change or traffic to go by, […]
July 14, 2006general, General

World’s Largest Photo

What is possibly the world’s largest photograph was created on Wednesday at the former El Toro US Marine Base in California. The non-profit Legacy Project used a hangar at the […]
July 12, 2006Education, Events, general, GeographyAwareness, GIS_Software

Penn State Geospatial Technology Summer Camp

Penn State is offering a summer camp for 12-18 year-olds to give kids hands-on experience with GIS, GPS, and other geospatial technologies. The camp will be held from July 31st-August […]
July 11, 2006Events, general

UbiComp 2006

I haven’t been blogging too much in recent days, so I will try to get back up to speed with a reminder about the upcoming UbiComp 2006 (Eighth International Conference […]
July 6, 2006general, VirtualWorlds

Globe 4D – Viewing temporal data on a 3D globe

Ed Sullivan emailed us to point out Globe 4D, a cool project by students at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Globe 4D is a 3D sphere mounted in a moveable […]
July 4, 2006general, space (not spatial)

Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on the 115th shuttle mission

Busy day today packing and moving….but I had to stop for a few minutes and watch the space shuttle Discovery’s launch. So far, so good…….. For more info and video […]
July 1, 2006general, VirtualWorlds, WebMapping

Preview of Geoportail’s 3D functionality

One of our readers, Yann, emailed me with some additional information about Geoportail, the French web mapping application, and included a link to a video of a French blogger’s interview […]