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• September 12, 2007general, Podcast, Show Notes

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Special Episode 26

  Interview with Mark Seivers, the Conference Chair of the recent URISA 2007 conference which took place in Washington, DC. Click to download mp3 version Click to download aac version

• September 12, 2007general, GeographyAwareness, GeographyBlogs

  Vector1 Media: Sustainability and geospatial

  As those of you who have listened to AVSP Episode 112 have already heard, Matt Ball and Jeff Thurston have started Vector1 Media a new magazine that will look at […]

• September 11, 2007general, VirtualEnvironments

  What Sue did the summer of 2006

  So after we met some of the SketchUp guys at the geoblogger meet-up at the ESRI UC, Sue showed off her presentation that she had given earlier that day on […]

• September 10, 2007general, WebMapping

  Online Interactive Heat Loss Map

  Working on the notion that showing people is often the best way to influence their behavior, the Haringy Council in the UK is providing an online Interactive Heat Loss Map. […]

• September 9, 2007general, Podcast, Show Notes

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 112

  A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 112 September 09, 2007 Main Topic: Interview with Jeff Thurston and Matt Ball of Vector1Media.com Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download […]

• September 9, 2007Events, general, GeographyAwareness

  GIScience Podcast

  I completely missed this…there is a podcast feed from the 2006 GIScience Conference that was held in Munster last October. There are nine presentations that cover an array of GISci […]

• September 7, 2007Events, general, Podcast, TV

  VSTV Episode 19 – Geography and Humanities Symposium

  Video wrap-up from the Geography and Humanities Symposium from Charlottesville, VA in June 2007. Click here to download VSTV Episode 19 (12 MB)

• September 6, 2007general, General, Human Geography

  China’s own version of Paris – complete with Eiffel Tower replica

  A while back I blogged about the planned suburb of Songjiang outside of Shanghai, China called Thames Town, which was built to replicate an English town, complete with shops and […]

• September 5, 2007general, General

  Relief Map Rug

  The latest entry in the gifts for the “geographer who has everything” category is the Relief Map Rug from Dutch designer Laurens van Wieringen The carpet depicts a landscape scene […]

• September 5, 2007Gadgets, general, LBS, Navigation

  NYC Cabbies on Strike because of GPS!

  Engadget is reporting the breaking news that NYC cabbies have officially gone on strike over GPS units in their cabs. We mentioned this item briefly in the past as the […]