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• September 10, 2010general, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Social Networking

  Urbagrams – Mapping the social city

  In order to investigate the idea of a social archipelago, the notion that our cities are “fragmented islands of social activity separated by large areas dedicated to commercial workplaces, flows […]

• September 10, 2010Contest, general

  Raster Challenge

  It’s time to put your raster skills to work in time to get a Nintendo DS for the holidays. Crafster, Cooking Mama, and Nintendo DS have announced a contest to […]

• September 8, 2010ESRIUC, general

  Esri UC 2011 Call for Presentations now open

  That’s right, for all you Esri users out there, it’s already time to start thinking about next year’s User Conference. The Call for Presentations is now out over on Esri’s […]

• September 7, 2010general, WebMapping

  The State of Mapping APIs.

  Adam DuVander over at O’Reilly has written a decent summation article on the current state of mapping apis in the world.  It’s a short read and highlights some issues, but I think […]

• September 6, 2010general

  Virtual Tourism = Real Tourism

  The Wall Street Journal has an article that highlights the money to be made in the convergence of real places and their virtual counterparts in games. Much like many seaside […]

• September 5, 2010general, Podcast, Show Notes

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 268

  A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 268 September 5, 2010 Main Topic: Our Esri UC conversations with Velodyne, Topcon, and Latitude Geographics Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly […]

• September 3, 2010general, GeographyAwareness, Remote Sensing, Video, WebMapping

  Great video introduction to the National Map

  One of the fun things I get to do in prepping for my classes is getting to look at all the amazing video resources out on the interwebs for Geography […]

• August 29, 2010general, Podcast, Show Notes

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 267

  A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 267 August 29, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversations with Christopher Cretini of the USGS Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC […]

• August 26, 2010general

  Visualization of Tabular Data

  FlowingData is a fun website created by a Ph.D candidate in statistics that “explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better – mainly through […]

• August 25, 2010Environmental, general, GeographyAwareness, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

  NASA Earth Science Hurricane Katrina retrospective

  To mark the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating landfall in the Gulf Coast, NASA Earth Science has released this short video retrospective of some of the imagery and analyses […]