Author: Sue

March 17, 2006Cartography

Nanotech Map of the Americas

OK, there are some really cool maps out there, but I don’t know how many could beat this: a nanoscale ‘map’ of the Americas, done by Paul Rothemund from the […]
March 17, 2006LBS

Augmentra’s ViewRanger 2.0 Smartphone GPS software

Augmentra, a UK-based company, has unveiled ViewRanger 2.0, its new software for Nokia smartphones that provides mapping, navigation and information on location for hikers, mountain bikers, and other outdoor enthusiasts. […]
March 15, 2006Education, Physical Geography

Utah High School Student wins $100,000 scholarship

The winner of the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search is Shannon Babb of Highland, Utah, who won a $100,000 college scholarship for her project studying the impacts of humans and […]
March 15, 2006Physical Geography

Wired News 3-part series on Global Warming

Wired News just posted the first part of their 3-part series on global warming, which will consist of interviews with 3 leading authors on the topic. First up is Tim […]
March 14, 2006Education

Outdoor Classroom Awards

Lowe’s, International Paper and National GeographicÃ‚Â Explorer have teamed up to award nearly $80,000 in grants to 32 schools in 15 states to help construct outdoor learning environments for science […]
March 13, 2006Data, GIS_Software

GeoDRM report

On Friday, the GeoData Alliance announced the publication of their 98-page report on Geospatial Digital Rights Management, prepared by them in conjunction with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and […]
March 10, 2006Events, WebMapping

Virtual Globes session at AAG

Probably the best session I’ve attended here at AAG in Chicago was yesterday afternoon’s “Geography v2.0: Internet-based Virtual Globes”. The presenters included Dave Maguire, head developer at ESRI, and Tim […]
March 7, 2006Groups, WebMapping

VerySpatial Frappr Community nearing 100!

I was just checking on our Frappr community page, and we are up to 94 members. I just wanted to give a shout out to everyone who’s joined, and invite […]
March 6, 2006WebMapping

TimeDrive

Developers at Creare, Inc. have worked up a prototype to try to introduce temporal data into Google Earth, called TimeDrive. Their solution is to create time slices from a dataset, […]
March 3, 2006General

China revamping its Internet Domain Name System

As of March 1, 2006, the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry is offering 4 country code domains. It already has the standard English character .cn country code domain, and will […]