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September 3, 2009general, Human Geography, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

California Fires from Space

In case you haven’t seen this around, BoingBoing.net has a nice link round up for NASA’s photos of the current California fires as seen from space. The smoke cloud is […]
September 2, 2009general, Human Geography, Physical Geography

Eight Most Dangerous Places to Live on the Planet

If danger is your middle name and you like to eat, breath, and sleep in danger, then you might want to check out this Popular Mechanics article. Whether you like […]
August 30, 2009general, Podcast, Show Notes

A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 215

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 215 August 30, 2009 Main Topic: Our conversation with Jon Kimerling and Aileen Buckley, authors of the 6th edition of Map Use: Reading and […]
August 28, 2009general, VirtualEnvironments

Virtualization Gate – Full-bodied Immersive Virtual Environment

As many of you know, we have been involved in research related to geovisualization, 3D immersive virtual environments, and 3D virtual worlds for quite a while, and we’ve talked about […]
August 27, 2009Cool Stuff, Gadgets, general

MAPTOR – Cool Concept for Projecting Your Maps on the Go

Some of you may have seen this already, but here’s a cool concept for those times when you just want to see a map, or when you want to point […]
August 25, 2009general, Groups

Associations/Groups – GISCI

Since I finished my GISP application and FINALLY sent it in I thought it was probably time to highlight the GIS Certification Institute. From their web site the GISCI “provides […]
August 23, 2009general, Podcast, Show Notes

A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 214

A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 214 August 23, 2009 Main Topic: Our conversation with Paul Bissett of WeoGeo Click to directly download MP3 Click to directly download AAC Click […]
August 23, 2009general

GIS in Disneyworld

The Disney Universe is a pretty elaborate one and one of the ways they keep it running is GIS. Some of the current job openings include is a civil engineering […]
August 22, 2009general

Walking in Circles again

An article in the U.K. Dailymail covers current research about why people walk in circles when they get lost. Although I am sure that it was written with tongue in […]
August 22, 2009general

BBC NEWS | Handsets enhance the real world

The BBC has a nice write up of Augmented Reality and a video from Layar demoing how their phone based AR works. LBS marches forward! BBC NEWS | Programmes | […]