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• July 13, 2006general, GeographyAwareness, GIS_Software

  Skills USA Champion ‘announced’

  The Amherst Bee yesterday announced that Sue Rousie of Amherst, NY is the champion of this years Geospatial Technology Skills USA challenge. This has not been posted on the Skills […]

• July 12, 2006Education, Events, general, GeographyAwareness, GIS_Software

  Penn State Geospatial Technology Summer Camp

  Penn State is offering a summer camp for 12-18 year-olds to give kids hands-on experience with GIS, GPS, and other geospatial technologies. The camp will be held from July 31st-August […]

• July 12, 2006Columns, general

  Little less action, a little more conversation please

  In his blog zen GIS Development, Dave Bouwman asks what I think is a pretty important question – why aren’t we all talking together about GIS? He notes that a […]

• July 11, 2006avsp, general

  New Poll: Where did you come from

  We want to know where you began your interest in Geography or geospatial technologies. Did you start off in some other field and happen upon the importance of being ‘spatial’, […]

• July 11, 2006Events, general

  UbiComp 2006

  I haven’t been blogging too much in recent days, so I will try to get back up to speed with a reminder about the upcoming UbiComp 2006 (Eighth International Conference […]

• July 10, 2006general, Podcast, Show Notes

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 51

  A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 51 July 9, 2006 Main Topic: Interview with John Tolva of IBM. Click to directly download Episode 51 Click for the detailed shownotes

• July 9, 2006avsp, general

  Episode delayed

  I apologize for not having episode 51 up on time. It is a great interview with John Tolva of IBM. Look for it Monday.

• July 9, 2006general, Hardware, WebMapping

  Central DNS Servers Mapped

  Ever wonder where the central, root, base nodes of the Internet are located? Well here’s a map to help you out! At this scale, there looks like there’s only 7, […]

• July 8, 2006general, General

  BBC News talks about new graphics

  While this BBC article speaks specifically about how Windows Vista is offloading much of the graphics work to the video card in the high-end versions of the eventually coming OS […]

• July 7, 2006general, General

  Nature’s top 50 science blogs

  Nature is hosting a list of 50 science blogs based on technorati ranking. There are no Geography or geospatial specific blogs on the list, but it does include a few […]