Author: Sue

May 25, 2006Education, Events, general

Illinois 8th grader wins National Geographic Bee

Bonny Jain, an 8th grader from Moline, Illinois, is the winner of the 2006 National Geographic Bee and will receive a $25,000 college scholarship. If you want to see how […]
May 24, 2006general, Physical Geography, WebMapping

Worldwide Fire Maps available online

The Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) World Fire Atlas, based on a decade of Eurpoean Space Agency ESR-2 and other satellite data, is now available online at the ESA’s Ionia […]
May 22, 2006general, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments

Google Earth and Virtual Worlds

Stephan over at OgleEarth links to a post by Avi Bar-Zeev, one of the Keyhole co-founders who also worked for Linden Labs (makers of Second Life), about Google Earth, what […]
May 19, 2006general, WebMapping

If the Earth were a sandwich…….

Do you think you have what it takes to be “Awesome”? It isn’t easy. There’s a test of skill and knowledge and tasty lunctime goodness. The League of Awesomeness (part […]
May 19, 2006Education, general

Phase I report on Geospatial Workforce available for comment

GITA and AAG have completed their Phase I report, entitled “Defining and Communicating Geospatial Industry Workforce Demand”, as part of the Department of Labor grant on the geospatial workforce. It […]
May 16, 2006general, Programming/Dev, WebMapping

MapCruncher – Microsoft’s new prototype mashup creator

I was checking out the Microsoft Research news, and I saw this press release about MapCruncher, a new prototype that helps users make mash-ups with MSN Virtual Earth of course. […]
May 16, 2006general, Programming/Dev, WebMapping

Telcontar offers a new AJAX-based mapping API

Telcontar, a well-known location-based services company, has announced the release of their new AJAX-based API, which is available for download from the Telcontar Developer Zone. , a free online service […]
May 13, 2006general, WebMapping

Schmap Interactive City Guides

I got an email press release the other day from Natalia at Schmap, and just now got a chance to check out the Schmap Player and Schmap Guides, which are […]
May 12, 2006Gadgets, general

The Compass Coat

That’s right – always know which way you’re going with the Compass Coat, part of a research project on wearable devices, so sadly not available for purchase anytime soon. The […]
May 11, 2006Cartography, general, GIS_Software, Physical Geography, WebMapping

Amazon GIS

I haven’t highlighted a really good GIS project in awhile, so I thought I’d mention the Amazon GIS project, run by the Smithsonian Institution and other collaborators. They have spent […]