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• May 14, 2010general

  Tutor/Mentor Connection

  One of the great things about comments sections on blogs is that they often contain great follow-up information. Because of a post about mapping philanthropy, I was introduced to a […]

• May 10, 2010general

  Mapping philanthropy

  I spend a lot of time looking for grants, reading about requests for proposals, and generally immersed in all things “soft money”, so it was I was excited to find […]

• May 9, 2010general, Podcast, Show Notes

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 251

  A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 251 May 9, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation with Joel Campbell, president of ERDAS Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC […]

• May 8, 2010general, Human Geography

  The Biggest Game Worlds

  Years and years ago, Jesse, Sue, and I had a discussion about the size of game worlds.  The image represents a pretty impressive rundown of the sizes of various current […]

• May 6, 2010Cartography, general, GeographyAwareness, Remote Sensing

  Grassroots Mapping for the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

  Recently we featured the Grassroots Mapping project, a community participatory mapping initiative from the MIT Media Lab, on the podcast, and now the Grassroots team has headed down to Louisiana […]

• May 6, 2010general

  Visualizations are beautiful

  The second edition of ‘The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide To The World’s Most Consequential Trivia” by David McCandless is out soon. He also has a website called “Information is […]

• May 4, 2010Cool Stuff, general, VirtualEnvironments

  IBM’s CityOne – Gaming to solve our cities’ problems

  While I continue my research in the area of immersive virtual worlds and serious gaming, I have also been doing a lot of work recently in the area of digital […]

• May 2, 2010general, Podcast, Show Notes

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 250

  A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 250 May 2, 2010 Main Topic: Our conversation with Harvey J. Miller on time geography and temporal GIS Click to directly download MP3 Click […]

• April 30, 2010general, Hardware, Human Geography, Physical Geography

  First US Offshore Windfarm

  Anyone who talks to me about energy will quickly learn I’m a HUGE fan of offshore wind energy.  So this news item in the New York Times caught my eye […]

• April 27, 2010Cool Stuff, general

  The first nano-cartographers? – IBM creates world’s smallest 3D map

  “To see a world in a grain of sand” – William Blake’s lyrical words take on a new meaning when you watch this video of IBM researchers demonstrating their new […]