Author: Sue

• January 25, 2006General, VirtualEnvironments

  Eyebeam R&D’s OpenGLExtractor

  Want to add your favorite 3D game character to GoogleEarth? Eyebeam R&D’s OpenGLExtractor allows you to capture and re-use 3D geometry data in other 3D graphics applications, basically a “screen […]

• January 24, 2006GIS_Software, Human Geography

  More on soundscapes – The Silence of the Lands project

  The University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center for Lifelong Learning & Design is working on a cool project called Silence of the Lands. Participants use handheld devices to record and […]

• January 24, 2006General

  Adobe Acrobat 3D

  For all you CAD users out there, Yahoo!News reported on Monday that Adobe is releasing Adobe Acrobat 3D, which will allow 3D files from major CAD applications to be saved […]

• January 23, 2006General, GIS_Software

  China to Spend Millions to Survey the Great Wall

  An article in Friday’s online edition of The Epoch Times reports that China will spend 200 million yuan (approximagely $25 million US) to survey the Great Wall using modern remote […]

• January 23, 2006WebMapping

  Want to Know the Highest Point in Your State?

  Over at Geology.com, they’ve got a neat Google Maps mashup that shows the highest point in each of the 50 states. West Virginia’s is Spruce Knob – 4,863 feet. Alaska […]

• January 21, 2006General

  Assessing the cultural value of farmland and open space

  Art Rex, a geographer at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, is conducting research on using GIS as a tool in developing qualitative assessments of the value of farmland and […]

• January 19, 2006General

  Wow….now you, too, can feel like Godzilla!

  Check out this entry from the RFID in Japan blog. They have created an exhibition with a giant aerial photo of the city on the floor, with over 7000 RFID […]

• January 19, 2006General

  NASA’s New Horizons probe blasts off for Pluto

  After scrubbing the first 2 launch times, the New Horizons probe finally lifted off just under an hour ago. It will take it 10 years to reach Pluto, but it […]

• January 18, 2006General

  GeoEye now world’s largest commercial satellite imagery company

  Orbimage, Inc. recently finalized its acquisition of Denver-based Space Imaging, Inc., and the two companies will now combine to do business as GeoEye. In early 2007, the company is still […]

• January 17, 2006General

  Peter Morville on “Spatiosemantic”

  Peter Morville, our guest on this week’s episode, maintains his own blog, Findability.org, where he discusses the ideas behind the technologies that are making findability an increasingly important part of […]