Data
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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 […]
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Data, 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 […]
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Data, 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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Data, 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 […]
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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, […]
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Broadband Data Collection Bill Passed
Ars Technica is reporting that Congress has finally passed the broadband data collection bill. As any good geographer will tell you, normally the first step in figuring out where you […]
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