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May 2, 2006Education, general, GeographyAwareness

Yet Another Study Demonstrates young Americans’ Geography Illiteracy

The National Geographic-Roper Public Affairs 2006 Geographic Literacy Study was just released, with more sad news about young Americans’ (aged 18-24) lack of even basic geography skills like reading a […]
May 2, 2006general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

What would the US look like if water rose 3.5 meters?

Harvard magazine has an interesting article about global warming. It’s a longer read than many of our posts, but worth checking out. Of particular note is the artistic rendering of […]
May 2, 2006general, Navigation, WebMapping

Where’s Tim?

Tim lives in Lawerence, Kansas. He likes to travel. For instance, last tuesday, Tim traveled 103.25 miles to Prairie Village Kansas. How do I know this? Because Tim uploads his […]
May 2, 2006general, General

Want a chance to win a new Mazda? All you need is Google Earth!

Mazda just announced their Mazda CX-7 EarthSearch Sweepstakes, which runs until June 27th, 2006. All you do is download Google Earth (if you don’t already have it installed, of course), […]
May 2, 2006avsp, general

avsp back in iTunes

…though iTunes never seems to be up to date. I just posted episode 41 to the feed and podcast page. I am tossing down an IOU for shownotes for 40 […]
May 1, 2006general, VirtualEnvironments

Traveling Exhibit of EarthWorks virtual reconstructions

Continuing my theme today of virtual reconstructions of cultural and archaeological resources, I just saw a press release on ScienceDaily that EarthWorks, a ten-year-old project to virtually reconstruct Native American […]
May 1, 2006general, GIS_Software

ArcSketch for ArcGIS

ESRI has released a new free extension ArcSketch for ArcGIS for use in ArcMap. The ArcSketch extension seems similar to the Tablet extension but with a little more under the […]
May 1, 2006general, Human Geography, VirtualEnvironments

Preserving China’s past in digital form

3PointD linked to this article from CRIEnglish.com about several projects under way to digitially recreate a number of China’s endangered or destroyed cultural resources. Among the projects are stuctures at […]
April 30, 2006general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing, space (not spatial)

CloudSat and Calipso satellites successfully launched

I didn’t get a chance to blog this earlier because of our slow internet connection in San Juan, but NASA’s 2 new cloud monitoring satellites, CloudSat and Calipso, were successfully […]
April 29, 2006avsp, general

Trackback spam is evil

Trackback’s are being disabled until I can find a better solution to stop trackback spam. So if you link to us it won’t show up for the time being.