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March 31, 2008general, General

First Bird’s Eye imagery, now Fish-Eye views

Japanese company ALPSLAB has come up with a new function for zooming in to an area on its online mapping interface – a “Fish-Eye” view that acts like a magnifying […]
March 27, 2008general, General

Maps As Art and Fashion

These cool artworks by a French artist living in London, Elisabeth Lecourt, show that not only can maps tell us where we are and help us find our way, they […]
March 19, 2008general, General

Digital Storytelling – Places

Over on iTunesU there continue to be additions that are of interest to spatial folk like ourselves. The next one on my list to check out combines two areas that […]
March 18, 2008Education, General, general

KidsGIS – open source GIS tools for kids

KidsGIS is a cool project from a group of professionals and educators out in Oregon, who have been using MapGuide Open Source tools to create an open source geospatial portal […]
March 15, 2008general, General

Common Craft – simple explanations of techy stuff

I ran across this great site, Common Craft, which has a great collection of short videos that offer simple explanations of a lot of the technologies that we talk and […]
February 28, 2008general, General

Mobile Eye-Trek from Olympus – augmented reality for the masses?

The concept of augmented reality, utilizing technology such as mobile displays and portable devices that can superimpose data onto your view of the real world, has been around for awhile […]
February 28, 2008general, General

Web design and geospatial

Apparently there is a “traveling” web design conference called An Event Apart that will be hitting New Orleans April 24-25 and then Boston, Chicago and others every month or so. […]
February 23, 2008general, General

Walking on Steep Terrain

Researchers have verified what you probably do naturally on a steep slope – walk zig-zag. According to MSNBC, researchers at University of Southampton UK, found that zigzagging is the fastest […]
February 22, 2008Gadgets, general, General

Microsoft Announces “Community Arcade”

In more Microsoft news, they’ve announced a new “community arcade“. The idea is pretty simple – end users and budding game developers can now “launch” their titles on Xbox Live […]
February 17, 2008General, general, VirtualEnvironments

It was only a matter of time…..

It seems that the cute, cuddly feline who loves all things pink (yes, I am talking about Hello Kitty) has finally gotten together with her friends to create their own […]