Events

• February 5, 2006Events, GIS_Software, Groups

  Open Source Geospatial Foundation begins…

  Schuyler Erle over at MappingHacks.com has a round-up of Saturday’s activities in Chicago. The upshot is that we now have the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, OSGeo (eventually to be at […]

• January 5, 2006Events, General

  More on avsp contest 2 & 3 – updated

  There is only one day left to enter our next contests and we only have a few entries for each contest so far. The first place prize for contest 2 […]

• December 21, 2005Education, Events, GIS_Software

  GLIS Annual GIS competition for high schools

  The Geographic and Land Information Society has announced their Annual GIS Competion for high schools, sponsored by ESRI. Basically, high schools submit projects to the competition by the deadline of […]

• December 6, 2005Events

  ESRI User Conference Abstract Submission Deadline Extended

  The deadline for abstract submission for the 2006 ESRI International User Conference has been extended to January 6, 2006. For more information, see the conference webpage.

• December 6, 2005Events

  AAA Travel High School Challenge

  AAA (American Automobile Association) will be sponsoring the 4th annual AAA Travel High School Challenge, a 3-part geography competition that kicks off with a 40-question online contest from January 9-17, […]

• December 2, 2005Events

  Abstracts for URISA’s Annual Conference in 2006

  Online abstract submission for URISA’s 2006 Annual Meeting in Vancouver is now up and running, with abstract submissions due by January 6, 2006. You can submit your abstract at the […]

• December 1, 2005Events

  Beyond Einstein Live Webcast

  Although it’s not strictly geography, this is still pretty cool. A 12-hour live global webcast will be going on today to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s theory of relativity, […]

• November 26, 2005Events

  Our GIS Day podcast is a Success Story!

  the VerySpatial Podcast GIS Day 2005 episode is highlighted on the GISDay.com Success Stories webpage! Thanks again to Frank and to Rick Lawson of ESRI for joining us on the […]

• November 21, 2005Events, GIS_Software, WebMapping

  QGIS Community – Interview with Tim Baggett

  Tim Sutton, a QGIS developer, pointed out their recent interview with Tim Baggett who helped design an OpenSource based system to track ballons for the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Check […]

• November 19, 2005Events, GeographyAwareness

  GAW wrap up

  Well, today is the last day of Geography Awareness Week. I just wanted to offer up a couple of links for you to check out to see what happened this […]