Author: Sue

• January 15, 2006General

  HopStop.com

  HopStop.com is a city transit guide site that features maps and directions from place to place using public transit, or a combination of public transit and walking. In addition, the […]

• January 15, 2006General

  Stardust capsule lands safely

  Early this morning, NASA’s Stardust capsule containing samples of comet dust successfully landed in the Utah desert. There are links and information on all the major media outlets, but it […]

• January 13, 2006General

  Did the Chinese discover America?

  The BBCNews website posted an article today about a Chinese map that, if authentic, may suggest that Chinese mariners visited and mapped the coasts of America before Columbus. Chinese characters […]

• January 12, 2006General, Physical Geography

  Alaskan Volcano webcam

  The Alaska Volcano Observatory website has a webcam located on Augustine Island in Alaska, monitoring Augustine Volcano, which had a small ash eruption yesterday and continues to show signs of […]

• January 11, 2006General

  Google Maps mash-up to track your packages

  Ok, so I admit, I’m probably more excited about this than most people, but whenever I order something, I obsessively track its progress via the handy tracking feature on most […]

• January 11, 2006General

  Update on National Geospatial Technical Operations Center review

  Adena over at the AllPoints blog posted a link yesterday to the USGS site, where the final report on the review of the decision process that led to the selection […]

• January 10, 2006General

  Want to do your part for science?

  on Sunday at approximately 1:56am Pacific Standard Time, the Stardust capsule will be re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere on its way back from space with its precious load of comet dust […]

• January 10, 2006General

  The changing US commercial remote sensing industry

  According to an article in yesterday’s Rocky Mountain News, 2006 is going to be a year of change for the US commercial remote sensing imagery, as new high-resolution satellite are […]

• January 8, 2006General

  Landsat 8?

  One of our listeners, Michelle, emailed us with a link to an article in the Sioux Falls, SD Argus Leader online newspaper, which states that an announcement was made quietly […]

• January 6, 2006General

  OGC requesting public comment on geospatial Web Processing Service specification

  The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is requesting public comment on a candidate specification for a geospatial Web Processing Service. This specification was developed to provide a standardized interface for accessing […]