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• September 4, 2006general, Podcast, Show Notes

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 59

  A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 59 September 3, 2006 Main Topic:Webmap APIs revisited Click to directly download Episode 59 Click for the detailed shownotes

• September 3, 2006general, Human Geography

  Mapping Globalization Project

  Princeton University and the University of Washington have a joint project going called the Mapping Globalization Project, which uses maps, narratives, and other data to look at some of the […]

• September 2, 2006Education, general, GIS_Software, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

  Smithsonian offering Advanced Course on Conservation GIS

  For those of you interested in using GIS and remote sensing in conservation-related activities, the Smithsonian National Zoological Park’s Conservation and Research Center is offering a week-long advanced GIS and […]

• September 1, 2006general, GIS_Software

  What, Whoa, Wait a minute…Intergraph Acquired

  So I come up for air after a frenetic week to find out that Intergraph, makers of a variety of products so numerous I won’t even try to list, has […]

• September 1, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

  Google Earth Now For Booking Flights

  British Airways is now using Google Earth to help book flights. It’s a pretty simple concept – you use Google Earth to zoom to where you want to go and […]

• September 1, 2006general, General

  Do you have your GIS Merit Badge?

  In honor of the start of the new school year, I found out that there is a boyscout merit badge related to GIS called the Surveying Merit Badge. Part of […]

• September 1, 2006general, LBS

  BBC NEWS | Norwich pioneers free city wi-fi

  The city of Norwich in the UK has set up a city-wide wi-fi that is open to the public at 256kbs and open to municipal employees at 1Mbs. One of […]

• August 31, 2006Events, general

  Call for panel participants

  We are putting together a couple of panels again this year. The first is a look at the growth of the ‘new media’ over the last year for the AAG […]

• August 30, 2006general, WebMapping

  Skylab Mobilesystems WMS Crawler

  If you’re looking to incorporate OGC-compliant WMS layers into your web mapping applications, check out Skylab Mobilesystems’ WMS Crawler – which crawls for keywords that may indicate a WMS link, […]

• August 29, 2006general, General

  Rise and Shout: Top Universities

  As Rob pointed out, the Princeton Review released their top 10 party schools. While BYU is proud of their status atop the sober list, WVU (much to many a burnt […]