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June 23, 2006general, WebMapping

GeoPortail apparently a work in progress

I checked out the newly launched French GeoPortail, which made the news at CNN today, and was mentioned on OgleEarth and Anything Geospatial. It is at this point just a […]
June 23, 2006Data, Events, general

ArcPad and mobile handhelds for 2010 US Census field data collection

A press release today announced that ESRI’s ArcPad will be used as part of the Field Data Collection Automation (FDCA) project for the upcoming 2010 census, and Harris Corporation has […]
June 23, 2006general, GIS_Software

MapInfo 8.5

I just realized that I forgot to blog the release of MapInfo 8.5 when I first saw it. The 8.5 release seems to have a quite a few updates, nothing […]
June 22, 2006general, Human Geography

Geographer Ken Martis discusses the political geography of US elections

This morning, I saw an article at the Detroit Free Press website about one of our own faculty here at WVU and, of course I just had to post about […]
June 22, 2006Education, general, GeographyAwareness

Maps101 – The problem with commercial education websites

I was looking up some domain names to register (I always look, but only own 2 domains) and thought of geography101.com. When I found it was taken I had to […]
June 21, 2006Events, general, space (not spatial)

Serenity Movie Charity Screenings

Ok, technically not geography, but it’s been awhile since we’ve blogged anything about Joss Whedon’s Firefly universe, so I am remedying that now. Serenity fans have set up a worldwide […]
June 21, 2006Gadgets, general, WebMapping

Opera 9 and widgets

As you all may know I am a fan of the widget. Konfabulator was wonderful, Yahoo Widgets made them more ubiquitous, and of course Apple stole widgets from Konfabulator 🙂 […]
June 20, 2006Gadgets, general, VirtualEnvironments

Use tablet instead of table to control GE

Inspired by the Smackbook demo and the tabletop Google Earth at the Where Fair, I am trying to use my Toshiba M200 tablet to control Google Earth (and others). Unlike […]
June 19, 2006general, Physical Geography

Alternative Energy Around the World

It’s a flash map, but it’s still pretty cool. Ever wonder where all the alternative energy is being produced in the world? Well now you can find out! This site […]
June 19, 2006general, WebMapping

AVSP Calendar in GeoTagThings

I saw the link to GeoTagThings.com on SlashGeo and had the idea to make a map of our calendar, linking to the conference web page. I have dumped out a […]