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February 5, 2007general, space (not spatial), WebMapping

Can’t Wait for Google Universe? Try Wikisky.org!

Wikisky.org is a fascinating site that displays thousands and thousands of astronomical data in a Google Map-esque interface. The data is based upon the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which […]
February 5, 2007Gadgets, general, Hardware

“The Last Mile” on the cheap

The Last Mile problem is a well known issue in wireless broadband circles. Running between, say, cities is easy… getting it the last mile to individual houses is hard. Most […]
February 4, 2007avsp, general

Podcast feed updated

Those of you who subscribe to the mp3 feed may have some duplication in the last 15 episodes due to our move back to our podcast server now that all […]
February 4, 2007avsp, general

Episode 81 will be out Monday night

We have an phone conversation Monday that will finish this week’s episode. We have a couple of other interviews scheduled later in the week that we will put out during […]
February 2, 2007general, General

Farallon podcast on relevance of Geospatial Technologies

This is from back in December, but one of our listeners, Ed, emailed and highlighted Farallon Geographics podcast on The Relevance of Emerging Geospatial Technologies for IT, and noted that […]
February 1, 2007general, GIS_Software, Human Geography

NPR discusses Philadelphia GIS project

NPR’s Day to Day featured a piece on a GIS project conducted by Amy Hillier of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Prof. Hillier’s research mapped low-income neighborhoods in […]
February 1, 2007avsp, general

Thanks for playing the home game

We would like to thank everyone who entered our “Show us your heritage” contest. We will announce the winner on episode 81 and emails the winners soon after. Next contest […]
January 31, 2007general, General

Firefox plugin for Microsoft’s Photosynth Tech Preview

I don’t know how I managed to miss this last week, but the Photosynth team has released a Firefox plugin for the Photosynth tech preview. I just tried it out, […]
January 31, 2007general, General

Remains of village found near Stonehenge

You’ve probably already read or seen the news about archaeologists’ discovery and excavation of a neolithic village site at Durrington Walls (site of the world’s largest henge) on the Salisbury […]
January 30, 2007General, general, Navigation

Can you survive in the wild?

Field and Stream has this rather whimsical little quiz about survival in the wild. You are the world’s unluckiest hunter, lost and alone in the woods with little supplies or […]