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• May 25, 2006Education, Events, general

  Illinois 8th grader wins National Geographic Bee

  Bonny Jain, an 8th grader from Moline, Illinois, is the winner of the 2006 National Geographic Bee and will receive a $25,000 college scholarship. If you want to see how […]

• May 24, 2006general, Physical Geography, WebMapping

  Worldwide Fire Maps available online

  The Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) World Fire Atlas, based on a decade of Eurpoean Space Agency ESR-2 and other satellite data, is now available online at the ESA’s Ionia […]

• May 24, 2006Events, general

  Geospatial at WWW2006

  The schedule for WWW2006, taking place now in Edinburgh, shows that one of the paper sessions taking place Thursday morning will focus on geospatial web applications along with a few […]

• May 23, 2006Events, general

  ESRI Dev Summit presentations

  The Dev Summit presentations are now available in PDF format from http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/devsummit06/index.html. You don’t get the anecdotes and wisdom imparted during the presentations, but they get you the information.

• May 22, 2006general, General

  Spatialized Audio in Games

  There has been some research to date on spatializing audio in 3D environments. While we have 7.1 and beyond sound to give us directionality for sound there remains a need […]

• May 22, 2006general, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments

  Google Earth and Virtual Worlds

  Stephan over at OgleEarth links to a post by Avi Bar-Zeev, one of the Keyhole co-founders who also worked for Linden Labs (makers of Second Life), about Google Earth, what […]

• May 21, 2006general, Podcast, Show Notes

  A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 44

  A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 44 May 21, 2006 Main Topic: Discussion on Metaverse Roadmap Click to directly download Episode 44 Click for the detailed shownotes

• May 19, 2006general, WebMapping

  If the Earth were a sandwich…….

  Do you think you have what it takes to be “Awesome”? It isn’t easy. There’s a test of skill and knowledge and tasty lunctime goodness. The League of Awesomeness (part […]

• May 19, 2006Education, general

  Phase I report on Geospatial Workforce available for comment

  GITA and AAG have completed their Phase I report, entitled “Defining and Communicating Geospatial Industry Workforce Demand”, as part of the Department of Labor grant on the geospatial workforce. It […]

• May 18, 2006general, GeographyAwareness

  URISA’s response to Geospatial LOB RFI

  URISA has posted their reponse to the Geospatial LOB RFI that was announced last month. Import Cartography links to the URISA pdf and talks a little about. In my distoriented […]