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• March 8, 2014general

  FOSS4G calls for workshops, presentations and academic papers

  VerySpatial is happy to support FOSS4G 2014 (September 8-13 in Portland, OR) as a media sponsor. We are working to get an interview or two with the organizers over the […]

• January 7, 2014general, Remote Sensing, WebMapping

  Meet your Polar Vortex Meteorologist

  Meteorologists made the Style section of the The Washington Post today in the article,  “What’s it like to be the voice of the Polar Vortex? These Weathermen Know”  Giving meteorologists […]

• January 4, 2014Cartography, Data, Education, general, Human Geography, Pins on the map, Political Geography, Remote Sensing, Travel

  Pins on the Map: George Washington Slept Here

  As you shiver in the cold today during what The Weather Channel is predicting could be the coldest winter on record for decades in North America, reflect on the 1780 […]

• December 26, 2013Cartography, Data, Education, general, Human Geography, WebMapping

  The United States Railroad Administration

  On December 26, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson nationalized the U.S railroads from 1917 – 1920 in response to the infrastructure demands of WWI. While it only lasted four years, the […]

• November 22, 2013general

  What is Geography

  A fun video celebrating Geography Awareness Week by folks from Queens University

• October 24, 2013general, Human Geography, Physical Geography, WebMapping

  The Geography of Twitter

  The Switch writer, Caitlin Dewey, reviewed a recent study on Twitter in her article on “Where do Twitter trends start? Try Cincinnati” for the Washington Post.  It summarizes a study […]

• September 20, 2013general, Human Geography, Political Geography

  Meta-Data, Locality, and WV-Gate

  This past week, Democrat Natalie Tennant announced her run for Senate and it was covered by the Washington Post, “Natalie Tennant Officially Launches Senate Campaign in West Virginia“. However, the […]

• August 20, 2013Cartography, ESRIUC, general, WebMapping

  GIS and Fine Art

  My day was made brighter this morning by a Paris Metro Project by Hwan Lee, which is an Art Takes Paris project that details all 261 metro stations in Paris […]

• July 23, 2013AVSRT, general

  A Very Spatial Road Trip: Day 5

  Sorry for the long delay between the post for day 4 and day 5.  Like most travelogues, not everything goes as smoothly as anticipated and documentation gets overridden by circumstances. […]

• July 1, 2013AVSRT, general

  A VerySpatial Road Trip: Day 1

  We started off the day bright and early leaving Morgantown at 7am on our route south toward Bluefield, WV.  We loaded down our car with lots of good treats, some […]