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• April 2, 2007general, General

  Google Map Zoom on DiggNation

  At around the 30 min point of the March 22 episode of DiggNation (some of the episode is explicit) Kevin and Alex cover the ‘extreme zoom’ with Google Maps. Fun […]

• March 29, 2007General, general

  Meosphere – where it’s all about you

  That’s right, it IS all about me in the Meosphere. While surfing the web this morning instead of finishing my work, I came across Meosphere, a site that rolled out […]

• March 22, 2007general, General

  Sat-Nav and School Trips

  This is a school trip no one is going to forget. Two bus loads of school kids ended up at an alleyway of the same name instead of a historic […]

• March 20, 2007general, General

  OpenStreetMap receives funding in the Netherlands

  OpenStreetMap just announced some great news, that the group in the Netherlands just received 12,000 Euros to support the mapping efforts. While I live in the US and have grown […]

• March 19, 2007general, General

  248-dimensional space…ummm

  The BBC has an article on a century old math concept referred to as ‘E8’ that has recently been solved. The construct results might be used in physics to consider […]

• March 15, 2007General, general

  Hanglide over Mars

  Although other sites have covered this story, I like the Daily Mail’s short take on it best. It is now possible to ‘hang-glide’ over Mars using 3D mapping software. The […]

• March 13, 2007general, General

  An overview of NAVTEQ’s global business strategy

  George Filley of Chicago-based NAVTEQ did a short Q & A with Michael Muth for MidWestBusiness.com, and I found it to be a good general overview of NAVTEQ’s organizational structure […]

• March 10, 2007general, General

  US Time Change

  If Jesse needs to call Ed on Monday at 10:30 local time in the UK (5:30 EST), but the US Congress decided to save electricity by changing the date range […]

• March 9, 2007general, General, GeographyAwareness

  New Climates – a weblog art exhibition on climate change and networked culture

  The New Climates project is a cool example of the use of New Media to create and disseminate artwork that explores the relationship between art, global climate change and networked […]

• March 7, 2007general, General

  Cool GIS related jobs

  MSN Lifestyle for Men has an interesting interview and picture of a “high tech rancher” who uses “A GPS unit feeds into Cox’s laptop, which uses GIS software to map […]