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July 6, 2006general, VirtualWorlds

Globe 4D – Viewing temporal data on a 3D globe

Ed Sullivan emailed us to point out Globe 4D, a cool project by students at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Globe 4D is a 3D sphere mounted in a moveable […]
July 5, 2006general, GIS_Software

QGIS 0.8 Preview 1 Released

I am SOOOOO…. behind. The move is going well, but it is definitely eating into my blog time. According to Verizon I will be without DSL for a couple of […]
July 4, 2006general, space (not spatial)

Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on the 115th shuttle mission

Busy day today packing and moving….but I had to stop for a few minutes and watch the space shuttle Discovery’s launch. So far, so good…….. For more info and video […]
July 2, 2006general, Podcast, Show Notes

A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 50

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 50 July 2, 2006 Main Topic: Redistricting and potential impacts of the recent Supreme Court decision. Click to directly download Episode 50 Click for […]
July 1, 2006general, VirtualWorlds, WebMapping

Preview of Geoportail’s 3D functionality

One of our readers, Yann, emailed me with some additional information about Geoportail, the French web mapping application, and included a link to a video of a French blogger’s interview […]
June 30, 2006avsp, general, General

Q or text balloon

Quiznos. the sub joint, has these bizarre little trays that are supposed to be Q shaped I guess. They are much more useful as text balloons in my opinion. That […]
June 29, 2006Data, general, Physical Geography, WebMapping

MesoStor – Online GIS data delivery system for Central America

I was going through my Caribbean GIS listserv alerts, and I noticed one about MesoStor, a project to make GIS data about Mesoamerica available online. MesoStor is part of SERVIR, […]
June 28, 2006Gadgets, general

LAPD Get their Spidey Tracer!

If you read the blog regularly, you’ll know my facination with the “Spidey Tracer”. (in truth, I’m facinated with all super gadgets… Batman is my hero!) Now the LAPD will […]
June 28, 2006general, General

Texas Redistricting Decision – Legislators can redraw maps whenever they like

Well, the Supreme Court decision on the case of the Texas congressional re-districting map is in and, while there was a small victory for Democrats and minority voters, the real […]
June 28, 2006Events, general

50th Anniversary of the creation of the US Interstate Highway system

Tomorrow, June 29th, will be the 50th anniversary of the signing of the bill that created the US interstate highway system. An article at MSNBC today has a nice little […]