Author: Sue

• March 1, 2006avsp, Events

  A VerySpatial Podcast on the Road

  So, this week we firmed up our spring conference schedule, and we will be headed to the AAG Annual Meeting in Chicago next week. March 17-18th, we will be in […]

• February 27, 2006WebMapping

  Newly-Issued Patent may threaten Rich Media applications

  You may have seen this already if you read tech news or blogs (Adena over at AllPoints Blog mentioned it this morning), but a patent issued on February 14th for […]

• February 26, 2006GIS_Software

  GRASS GIS on Digg

  GRASS GIS, the free GIS software package that was first developed in the early 1980s by the US Army Construction Engineering Research Lab (USA-CERL). Version 6.0.2 of GRASS was just […]

• February 26, 2006Events, WebMapping

  Mashup Camp

  On February 11th and 12th, the first Mashup Camp was held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The goal of the camp was get anyone interested in […]

• February 23, 2006VirtualEnvironments

  VisitorVille

  As a prelude to our upcoming podcast episode on cybergeography, check out VisitorVille, a web analytics software application that “does not represent website visitors simply as numbers or graphs, but […]

• February 23, 2006Events

  Where 2.0 Registration Now Open

  Details on some of the speakers for O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference, which will be held June 13-14 in San Jose, California, are now up on the conference website. Some of […]

• February 22, 2006General

  Podcasting in the Peruvian highlands

  BBCNews reported recently that podcasting is now being used to distribute important agricultural information to Peruvian farmers. The sponsors of the project, a UK charity called Practical Action, have found […]

• February 21, 2006GIS_Software

  USGIF announces 2006 scholarship competition

  The US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation is now accepting entries for its 2006 scholarship competition, which will award 14 scholarships totaling $55,000. Current undergraduate and graduate students are eligible, as well […]

• February 20, 2006General

  Microsoft awards academic grants for Virtual Earth research projects

  On Feb 16th, Microsoft announced the winners of its Trustworthy Computing and Virtual Earth academic grants competition. 23 grants were awarded, totaling $1 million. The maximum amount for each grant […]

• February 19, 2006General

  Geography professor elected speaker of Palestinian parliament

  Abdel Aziz Duaik, a geography professor from the West Bank, was elected speaker of the new Palestinian parliament yesterday. Duaik earned his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and is […]