Author: Sue

March 30, 2006Gadgets, general, Hardware

Get from Here to There using Photos

ShinyShiny, a tech gadget blog especially for girls, posted a review of the new Navman icn720 and 750 GPS in-car navigation systems that let you use photos to navigate to […]
March 28, 2006Events, general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial), VirtualEnvironments

See a total solar eclipse “live” on your computer

Tomorrow (Wednesday) there will be a total or near-total solar eclipse that will be visible in parts of Europe, Africa, and South America (see this guide from MSNBC). For the […]
March 27, 2006Events, general, VirtualWorlds

First Annual Virtual Globes Scientific Users Conference

We had a session devoted to Virtual Globes at the AAG Annual Meeting, and now there is going to be an entire conference sponsored by research centers at the University […]
March 25, 2006general, General, WebMapping

Mapping the North American Internet backbone

Ben Worthen, a writer for CIO.com and Bill Cheswick, a chief scientist at Lumeta, collaborated on this map(PDF), which shows who owns all of the routers that handle North American […]
March 24, 2006general, LBS

Location-based Digital Rights Management

It seems that a patent was just issued, to Microsoft, for a method and system for location-based licensing. This system would allow the owner of content to specify the locations […]
March 24, 2006general, WebMapping

Platial featured on Wired.com

A while back we blogged about Platial, the Google maps mashup site co-created by Di-Ann Eisnor (who will be a featured speaker at Where 2.0), and it seems the site […]
March 24, 2006General, general, Programming/Dev

Windows Live Developer Center launches

Microsoft has unveiled their Windows Live Developer Center, which offers APIs, resources and documentation for developers who want to write applications that connect to Microsoft services. Of course, Virtual Earth […]
March 22, 2006Gadgets, general

Topographic Fruit Bowls

Yes, that’s right….If you would like a lovely geography-inspired way to display your apples, oranges and other tasty fruits, then check out these custom-milled wooden fruit bowls in the shape […]
March 22, 2006general, General

27 US Federal Agencies to add Geospatial Official

Earlier this month, FederalNews Online reported that the US Office of Management and Budget is requiring 27 federal agencies to designate a senior official to oversee those agencies’ effort related […]
March 21, 2006general, GeographyBlogs

Geospatial Newsmaker Podcast

Corbley Communications, Inc., a public relations and marketing for the geospatial industry, has released its first Geospatial Newsmaker Podcast. According to their press release, the podcast is an interview with […]