Author: Sue

April 20, 2006Events, general

Maker Faire 2006

If you love to tinker with stuff, especially tech stuff, or find yourself strangely fascinated by the MythBusters, then the Maker Faire this weekend (April 22-23) in San Mateo, California […]
April 20, 2006general, Programming/Dev, WebMapping

OGC Catalogue Services Specification – Request for Comment

OGC has put out a Request for Comment for a new candidate OGC standard. It is the Catalogue Services Specification 2.0.1 – ISO Metadata Application Profile. From the press release: […]
April 19, 2006Education, general, WebMapping

Google Maps mashup of University Podcasts

I haven’t blogged a mashup in awhile, but I saw this on GISUser and it’s a pretty cool resource: a Google Maps mashup of universities that have podcasts, webcasts, and […]
April 17, 2006general, Human Geography

Invisible-5 – unique audio tour of California’s Interstate 5

For those of you who live and travel in California, the Invisible 5 Audio Project is a unique self-guided audio tour of the landscape along I-5 between San Francisco and […]
April 16, 2006Cartography, general, Human Geography

Visualizing World Population

The Hive Group created this cool visualization of population facts for the world’s countries using 2004 CIA Factbook data. In addition to representing countries in a tree structure that can […]
April 14, 2006Cartography, general, Physical Geography

North American Paleogeography Maps

A couple of days ago, the Cartography blog linked to Dr. Robert Blakely’s site with over 40 amazing maps of the paleogeography of North America. As archaeologists in our previous […]
April 14, 2006general, GIS_Software, VirtualEnvironments

Fred Limp on 3-D

GeoWorld’s April 2006 issue features the first of 3 articles about 3D visualization and the geospatial industry. By Fred Limp, of the University of Arkansas’s Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, […]
April 13, 2006general, General, space (not spatial)

USGS Map-a-Planet

This site is probably not new to some of you, but I think it is worth a post. The USGS, conjunction with NASA, offers access to global imagery of a […]
April 12, 2006general, General, WebMapping

Yahoo!Maps now includes satellite imagery

SiliconBeat has a short summary of what happened at last night’s SDForum panel. The main outcome discussed was the announcement by Jeremy Kreitler that Yahoo! Maps now finally offers global […]
April 12, 2006general, WebMapping

Call for participation for OGC Web Services Phase 4 testbed

If you are into open source geospatial development, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has just issued a Call for Participation for the OGC Web Services Phase-4 (OWS-4) Interoperability Initiative, which […]