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• January 16, 2007general, General

  Our 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Us

  Yes, Ed tagged us and we just now sat down and came up with our 5 things you didn’t know about the VerySpatial crew. 1. Before moving to West Virginia, […]

• January 16, 2007general, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

  U.S. National Research Council releases report on remote sensing

  The National Research Council has released its report on the state of US Earth Observation satellite operations, which discusses the 29 current missions, including Landsat, and offers recommendations for continuing […]

• January 15, 2007general, GIS_Software

  Brazil and China sign cooperation agreement for Geographic Research

  Last week, a committee from China visited Brazil to sign a cooperative agreement for collaboration between the countries in GIS and cartographic projects. According to the press release: “The accord […]

• January 15, 2007general, Podcast, TV

  VSTV Episode 07 – Genographic Project, Part 1

  In this episode we take our first step in the Genographic Project by going over the contents of the sample kit and doing the DNA test. Click here to download […]

• January 15, 2007Gadgets, general

  Apparently John Dvorak Agrees With Us

  If you listened to this week’s podcast, you heard us talk about CES and MacWorld. John Dvorak reached the same conclusions we reached in our discussion. This, of course, means […]

• January 14, 2007general, Podcast, Show Notes

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 78

  A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 78 January 14, 2007 Main Topic: Gadget goodness Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click for the detailed shownotes

• January 14, 2007Gadgets, general, Navigation

  Pocket media player

  It appears that in general there is a new device type that is running on Windows CE that is built for media. Sandisk’s Sansa® View features a 4 inch screen […]

• January 13, 2007general, General

  Odysseus’ Real Ithaca Discovered?

  My heart skipped a beat when I read that researchers might have found Homer’s real life Ithaca. The team that found it, first made their claim in the book, Odysseus […]

• January 13, 2007general, WebMapping

  Terrorists use Google maps

  The Telegraph is reporting a story that they have evidence British troops are being attacked in the Middle East based upon aerial imagery found in Google Earth/Maps. One can logically […]

• January 12, 2007general, Remote Sensing

  Funny

  A commerical for NCIS showed a low res image from Google Maps satellite view. One person said the area they were looking at was “Off the map” the other called […]