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• September 8, 2006general, General

  Laptop in the shop

  whimper…I hope it will be ok.

• September 7, 2006general, General

  Ironic Study:Satellite Navigation Systems

  In an ironic coincidence to Jesse’s post about BMW’s navsat system, the UK Daily Mail had an article about a study that showed the pitfalls of some current systems, the […]

• September 7, 2006general, Navigation

  BMW releases dynamic traffic system in US

  The folks over at Engadget had a post on BMW’s announcement that they will include real time traffic information on select 2007 models. Apparently they will be using Clear Channel’s […]

• September 7, 2006general, GIS_Software

  GIWIS premiere on Sept 13

  From the GIWIS website: The Geospatial Industry Workforce Information System—or GIWIS—will be your comprehensive resource for everything geospatial. Whether you’re a veteran to the geospatial industry or this is your […]

• September 7, 2006general, General, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography

  Australia on the Map audio series

  One of our listeners, Elaine, let us know about a radio series called Australia On The Map. The first program in this series, The Siren South, looks at early Dutch […]

• September 7, 2006General, general

  Now For Something Completely Different….

  Ok, so this really doesn’t have anything to do with geography or GIS or anything even remotely important… but it cracks me up every time I look at it. It’s […]

• September 6, 2006general, Human Geography

  A Modern Day Ruins

  Here’s an intersting photo series about an abandoned town in Russia. The pictures are pretty interesting, especially when you consider this place was probably occupied less than 20 years ago. […]

• September 6, 2006avsp, general

  AVSP Frappr hits the 200 mark

  We would like to congratulate Kevin from Houston on being the 200th person on the Frappr community map. You too can win a shirt just by being the 300th person […]

• September 5, 2006general, WebMapping

  Google Maps vs. Yahoo Maps

  Continuing some of the ideas from our podcast (and Farallon’s as well, apparently), this site features an interesting side by side comparison of Yahoo Maps and Google Maps. When I […]

• September 5, 2006general, GeographyBlogs, WebMapping

  Farallon Podcast talks mashups

  Apparently the guys over at Farallon had the same thought that we did for their last podcast as they speak on Mashups the same week we revisit the Webmap APIs. […]