Data

• December 19, 2010Data, Education, Environmental, Physical Geography

  National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  In 2008, Sue posted about the U.S. Department of Energy‘s National Renewable Energy Laboratory Atlas that was in development. I ran across the completed NREL FTP site with geospatial toolkits […]

• October 11, 2010Data

  Social media or spatial media

  In this week’s podcast I tossed out a term, spatial media, to try to clarify our conversation. The discussion was partially prompted by the V1 article titled “Have Social Media […]

• March 31, 2010Data, Environmental, general, Physical Geography

  Gulf Stream not Slowing Down

  Apparently Dennis Quaid was wrong… the gulf stream is not slowing down as some climate change models (and over the top eco-adventure movies) predict.  Apparently the belief this might happen […]

• March 30, 2010Data, General, Human Geography

  Want Google’s Gigabit Network in Your Town?

  Looks like you’ll have to get in line with the other 1,100 or so towns that have applied.  Apparently there is a LOT of demand for 1gb fibre network.  The […]

• March 4, 2009Data, general, WebMapping

  California Bill to Blur Schools and Churches

  Ars Technica is reporting about a bill introduced by a California legislator about a month ago making it a crime to not blur out government buildings, including schools and churches.  […]

• February 20, 2009Data, general, WebMapping

  LA Times mapping Los Angeles neighborhoods

  As part of the Data Desk section of the L.A. Times website, the paper is unveiling a project to map the neighborhoods of Los Angeles, California. As described in an […]

• December 11, 2008Data, general, Remote Sensing

  Data, data everywhere

  We received an email from long time VerySpatial friend Michelle about the release of the full library of Landsat data. We touched on the fact that Landsat 7 was freely […]

• November 18, 2008Data, general, WebMapping

  Intuit Moves Quickbooks Into the Geospatial World

  Intuit is announcing a new geo-demographic feature at the Adobe Max Conference. It’s to be built on Flash (grrr), but it will allow even the most basic Quickbooks user to […]

• November 8, 2008Data, general, LBS, Navigation

  OSMTrack – OSM data collection on the iPhone

  While looking through the new apps feed for the iPhone this morning I came across the OSMTrack app. OSMTrack is an application that allows you to use the iPhone 3G’s […]

• October 8, 2008Data, general

  Marine Sanctuaries in Google Earth

  Ars Technica is reporting about a new layer for marine sanctuaries being added to Google Earth. To me, this is a perfect example of some of the issues Jesse, Sue, […]